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This year alone BCBG opened stores in New York City (where there will be five by the end of the year); Indianapolis, Ind.; Charlotte, N.C.; Bordeaux, France; Valencia, Spain; and Athens, among other cities. Still to come: Albuquerque, N.M.; Woodland, Texas; Wailea, Hawaii; the Virgin Islands; Lisbon; Brussels; and more. "The world map looks smaller than ever before. In 2007 Europe will be very big. We're accelerating that, based on my acquisition of strategic brands," says Azria, referring to designer retailers Alain Manoukian and Don Algodôn and French couturier Hervé Léger. "We're fantastic in Asia because...
...Bring your goggles to the Palazzo Sasso's pool in Ravello on Italy's Amalfi's coast, where you can check out the panorama of the coastline through underwater windows over 300 m above the Tyrrhenian Sea (opens in March; tel: [39-089] 818181; www.palazzosasso.com). The famously opulent Grand Wailea in Hawaii features pools and waterslides for swimmers of all ages and the world's only water elevator. But the Wailea's crown jewel is the 450-sq-m Hibiscus Pool with a flower mosaic of 630,000 Mexican glass tiles (tel: [1-800] 888-6100; www.grandwailea.com). Exotic pools...
...other side of Haleakala, on the cool uplands above Wailea, on a clear day you can see, if not forever, a dazzling, dappled distance of meadow, mountain and sea. At the 2,000-to 3,000-ft. level, a host of small farms raise a cornucopia of vegetables, fruits and flowers, notably lychee, avocado, guava, the apple-sweet Kula onion and protea, the flower of a thousand exquisite shapes...
Most island visitors prefer Scotch or martinis. After soaping off the Coppertone, they generally settle for dinner and dreams. For the indefatigable, however, there is nightlife on Maui. There are waiting lines outside the Lost Horizon disco at the Wailea Beach Hotel; the Royal Lahaina's Foxy Lady packs in upper teenagers and the Tommy Dorsey set in equal numbers. The island's hottest spot is the Bluemax, in the town of Lahaina, where visiting Elton John and Linda Ronstadt have done their stuff off the cuff; the place is packed nightly in hopes that other drop...
Restaurants have bloomed like mamane flowers;, there are some 160, most of them so-so or ho-ho. Among the best: Inter-Continental's La Perouse (where the resident harp player is truly named Holly Angel), Wailea Beach's Raffles, Robaire's, Kimo's and Chez Paul, a French bistro in a beat-up storefront near Lahaina that is owned by a Boston Irishman named Paul Kirk (fortunately, his French wife Fernanda presides over the stove...