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Going upscale has worked well in Asia for H&M's main rival, Inditex's Zara, which opened its first store in Hong Kong in 2004. It carefully selects store locations in luxurious shopping centers, marketing itself as a rival to designers like Armani. Inditex's regional sales for its 59 Asian stores last year amounted to $1.1 billion, or 9% of the company's revenue, up from 7.5% in 2005. The Spanish company is often credited with inventing fast fashion, a business model that moves garments from the design table to stores quickly. Zara's clothing designers work closely...
...course, English customs and governmental procedures are completely alien to Paramount, and so he enlists the aid of his eldest daughter, Princess Zara (Charlotte Munson, another great singer), who returns from school in England and brings with her four representatives of English society to help Utopia along in its transformation...
Aside from the alarming degree to which Kroop and Miller look alike, their onstage chemistry is nearly perfect. They feed off each other’s jokes. They make each other necessary. And as they both fruitlessly fall for Princess Zara, they come up with some of the show’s funniest moments...
...feels harried and confused, but that’s no fault of the HRG&SP. Gilbert and Sullivan themselves got into arguments about the show’s construction and left those arguments mostly unresolved. As a result, an anticipated duel between Scaphio and Phantis for the love of Zara never takes place, among other incongruities...
Those consumers have been gorging themselves at the so-called fast-fashion boutiques, such as H&M, Zara and Mexx. These stores have figured out how to cut the clothing cycle down from six months to six weeks, so their racks are constantly replenished with fresh styles still wet from the runway. Gap, on the other hand, with its huge operations and slower reaction times, has been forced into the riskier business of guessing up front how a season's trends will play out (skinny jeans? newsboy caps?) and making huge bets on a few ideas...