Word: wearings
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...Marcus, Nordstrom, Macy's, Harvey Nichols, Hong Kong's Lane Crawford, Taiwan's Mitsukoshi and Singapore's Takashimaya. "They fill a lot of niches," says Frank Doroff, general merchandise manager at Bloomingdale's. "If you want clothes to go to work, to go out at night, a dress to wear to an occasion, they're trend right." Doroff says it all started with "the slinky dress," but what really put Azria on the map were his "sexy tops" and ponchos. "Two to three years ago, his ponchos alone were selling easily over $1 million. That propelled us into looking...
...years. "It was very junior and very technical," he says. "I learned the business there?production, manufacturing, development." In 1981 he moved to the U.S. "for the California sun" and launched Jess, a successful French fashion retail chain. Eight years later, eager to do more than ready-to-wear, he started BCBG. "I decided to combine my two paths and challenge the leadership of the designer of the moment," says Azria. "When I entered the market, I was rejected because the élite say that you have to sell things at a certain price point. My position was that...
...junior to haute couture, understand consumers from Tokyo to Wisconsin and mass merchants to Bergdorf Goodman. We're going to make sure that every one of our 16 brands has a voice and a very differentiated model." Their slew of brands includes BCBGirls, BCBG Attitude (men's ready-to-wear), Max & Cleo (dresses), Noun (tops and sweaters), Maxime (pants) and young contemporary labels To the Max, Dorothée Bis and Parallel...
PAULA BAXTER sees a thread running through the history of men's fashion: dissolute or licentious elements of style acting as a goad of dress norms. "Men's clothing over the centuries has been impacted by what men on the street wear," says the curator of an exhibit of about 200 engravings, prints, watercolors, drawings and photographs (from Ralph Lauren ads to Auguste Racinet's Le Costume Historique) opening at the New York Public Library this month. "A Rakish History of Men's Wear" surveys the factors?sumptuary laws, chivalrous codes, spiritual and marital values, dandyism and a bourgeois middle...
...Just because I wear a suit, they prejudge me,†said the elder Cronin, the managing partner of Weston Presidio, a private equity firm, and a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers...