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...Milan insiders like Angela Missoni and Lawrence Steele have been collecting vintage Scott, and now the design duo Paolo Battaglia and Antonio Ponte has culled from the archives eight of Scott's iconic prints?from the '50s through the early '70s?to reinvent the label in a ready-to-wear collection focused on fitted, slim, feminine silhouettes. The line features bustier dresses (a Scott signature), billowy tunics, safari jackets, blossoming trench coats and Jacquard foulards, which the designer used to knot around his neck. ?It's an homage to the glamour of '60s and '70s fashion,? says spokeswoman...
THERE IS AN APPROPRIATE SEASON to wear a fur coat and, as Gilles Mendel learned, an appropriate moment to open a fur-coat salon. Mendel chose the wrong moment. In 1870 in Paris, Mendel's great-great-grandfather launched a line of furs prized by Russian aristocracy. But in 1995, when Mendel opened the first J. Mendel outpost in New York City, the fur industry was under siege from animal-rights activists, and women who donned a mink in midtown Manhattan risked being pelted with red paint. To protect the windows of his Madison Avenue store from being smashed overnight...
...heaping expectations on his kids, so he stayed on the sideline. "I was scared to get too involved," says Archie. "I just thought, 'Look, you're asking for trouble.' They had built-in pressure, so I sure wasn't going to add to it. I didn't want to wear this ex-quarterback...
...SEASONS 5 & 6 By Fall 1993, this sitcom was reaching the apex of its catchphrase-minting cultural power--so much so that mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani made a cameo in an episode about bogus nonfat frozen yogurt. These 46 episodes include "The Puffy Shirt" (in which Jerry agrees to wear a flouncy pirate top on the Today show), and introduced J. Peterman (John O'Hurley, before he danced with the stars) and the concept of "regifting." Seinfeld's best and darkest seasons were just ahead, but no one is likely to regift this set, all the same...
...botched shipments, lawsuits, and other setbacks. The one constant was Chouinard, who has reviled the idea of being an ordinary businessman throughout the years. “I continued to practice my MBA theory of management, management by absence,” he writes, “while I wear-tested our clothing and equipment in the most extreme conditions of the Himalayas and South America.”Chouinard’s other business philosophies are listed out in the second chunk of the book. There are several for every major aspect of the company, from production design...