Word: wearings
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Richard Baker walks into the Time Warner Center in New York City wearing a sporty tan summer suit accented by a marigold tie with yellow socks to match. These days the real estate developer, art collector and former chef is having fun with fashion. As CEO of NRDC Equity Partners?the private-equity firm that bought Lord & Taylor?Baker is the proud new owner since October of America's oldest department store. And he's overseeing a makeover as bold as his brightly colored tie. To prove his dedication to the turnaround, he and his wife have made a pact...
...this core customer that the luxury bar rises and sets at Neiman Marcus. And the bar is higher than ever. A flourishing new Chanel category dubbed "demi-couture" rests between ready-to-wear and couture, with jackets ringing in at upwards of $6,000. Handbags have skyrocketed over the past two years, with the exotic-skin bags of Nancy Gonzalez special standouts. Fur is also flying out of the stores, including a Chado Ralph Rucci chinchilla clearly worth mentioning. And forward fashion, believe it or not, has stepped way up. "Eight years ago, the customer thought of Prada as being...
...this crowd is burgeoning American fashion star Derek Lam, who in December signed on to become the first creative director of luxury Italian leather-goods brand Tod's. His job? To put a fresh, modern spin on the Tod's signatures and up the ante with ready-to-wear. For fall, Lam has seized the brand's signature driving shoe and revamped it in a sleeker design in stylish jewel-tone satins. Coinciding with Lam's first season in charge is the brand's initial foray into the realm of celebrity spokesmodels. Sienna Miller appears in fall advertisements...
This week, each of us has the opportunity to take “positive” action against HIV/AIDS. Over the next few days, you may spot classmates and friends wearing an “HIV POSITIVE” shirt as part of a fundraising and awareness effort titled “Step it Up.” We wear these shirts for the same reason as our compatriots in South Africa: We feel positive about our ability to make a tangible impact in the fight against the pandemic. We realize, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King...
...long after winning reelection in a landslide this summer, the mildly pro-Islamic Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is pressing ahead with one of the most sensitive issues in Turkish politics. Erdogan told reporters this week that he favors lifting the ban on the wearing of Islamic headscarves in universities. Under the existing constitution, enacted following a military coup in 1980, it is illegal to wear headscarves in state-funded institutions such as hospitals and universities. The rule was intended to prevent Islamist activists from taking root in the younger generation, but it has been widely criticized...