Word: vf
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Like Levi's, denim's other big brands, VF Corp. (maker of Lee and Wrangler) and Guess?, have got a kick in the pants of late. "The story here is the competition," says Isaac Lagnado, president of Tactical Retail Solutions. In the world of blue jeans, denim pluralism was until recently considered blasphemy. That is, until Gap Inc. successfully introduced a complete store-brand jeans line in 1991. According to Lagnado, market share for private-label brands has grown from 8% in 1990 to 18% last year. Levi's has fallen from...
Mainstream VF has undertaken a savvy comeback, revitalizing its fashion line with a gritty $150 million ad campaign and a hip new line, Lee Riveted. Riveted now accounts for about 40% of Lee's $1 billion jeans business...
...leave alone but there's precious little new or interesting to say about her. So July's Vanity Fair has taken a unique approach: it's running a story on what it's like to photograph her. What these snaps of an unguarded, somewhat tousled Di signify, claims VF, is that the former princess is ready to slough off the old and embrace the new. Further evidence is her decision, at her son William's suggestion, to auction off some old frocks for charity on June 25. This must mean she's looking to a new post-royal life where...
...coincidence that Vincent Foster killed himself on the same day that subpoenas were issued to raid the office of David Hale, a former judge who accused the President of wrongdoing. "July 20th: FBI issues subpoena and took records of municipal judge named Hale," read the notes. "Also day VF killed himself. Factor." At another point Kennedy writes: "Vacuum Rose Law Files . . . Documents -- never go out quietly." The Rose Law firm, where Hillary Clinton and Foster were both partners when the Whitewater land deal was falling apart, claims to have lost its Whitewater files. While the White House and the Judiciary...
...literary world was aghast at what the changed leadership would portend for the New Yorker. Brown was known primarily for rescuing tottering magazines; she was the chief architect of Vanity Fair's transformation into the hot book of the '80s. VF reflected that decade's zeitgeist, a dubious mix of camp and celebrity worship underlaid with thinly disguised cynicism. Tina Brown transformed it into the kind of magazine which would reside illicitly in the sock drawer of serious reader: titillating but not substantial...