Word: wearings
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...color of my skin. It doesn’t matter how may times I attend the Monday meetings of the Black Men’s Forum. People are not going to see that on the street, in class, or when I go out at night. Even when I wear a tie for BMF’s tie day, people think it’s for something else. I have to wear my tie with informal clothes just so people will realize that I am identifying myself with the BMF, and not just dressing...
...nighttime window shoppers, the diversionary dresses soon became a main attraction, and in the late 1990s, Mendel began designing feminine skirts and pantsuits for day and drop-dead dresses for night, many trimmed with a fur collar or hem. In January 2004, he showed his first ready-to-wear collection in New York City. The show drew raves and marked the successful repositioning of the brand from one with a prestigious if slightly fusty reputation for swaddling Park Avenue matrons to one prized by celebrities who like to make an entrance. Jennifer Lopez and Jessica Simpson have been spotted...
...approachable? life. Gabbana, 43, still rides around his native Milan on a Vespa (albeit a leopard-print one). And Dolce, 47, who hails from a small town near Palermo, Sicily, still walks to work every day. One even gets the sense that they remain starstruck by the celebrities who wear their clothes?although they readily admit they have Madonna on speed dial...
...global fashion powerhouse. To prove it, the boys recently bought and renovated the Metropol, a former cinema in Milan that will serve as their show space and a sort of epicenter to the empire. An empire that still makes more than 58% of its revenue from ready-to-wear at a time when most luxury fashion brands make up to 80% of their profits from leather goods...
Ruella doesn't see success in terms of dreams. To this pragmatist, the reasons for success are straightforward. ?The secret of this company is no secret,? she says. ?Mr. Dolce and Mr. Gabbana provide clothes for lots of women to wear. Yes, we must manage a big company with prudence, but we never speak about ?if we do this, we will find more customers.? Customers want to find what Mr. Dolce and Mr. Gabbana design...