Word: artisanal
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...mission: put the customer in a set--a retail mise-en-scene, he calls it--that seduces him or her into buying. The store, he says, should be "a rational extension of the [fashion] designer." Gabellini spends inordinate amounts of time with the fashion folks, right down to the artisan, trying to understand the craft of each house. Then he puts on his bean-counter hat and assesses the ratio of clothing sales to accessories sales and factors in other businesslike components to incorporate into his designs. A designer label like Jil Sander, from which clients are more...
...other words, he was a skilled underworld artisan--just the kind of guy al-Qaeda likes to work with. Fearing the worst, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police gave the case national security status, called the FBI and started grilling Hamdani. Around Christmastime, the Pakistani spilled a tantalizing tale. He said he had been paid thousands of dollars to cook up travel documents for 19 men who had traveled from Pakistan through London to Toronto in early December. He thought they had reached the U.S. on Christmas...
...this summer about a million kids will attend VeggieTales church camps, where they will learn about Jonah and the whale. This should prime them nicely for Jonah: a VeggieTales Movie, which is slated to hit more than a thousand movie screens in the fall. It is being distributed by Artisan, the company behind such nonbiblical epics as Van Wilder and The Blair Witch Project...
...city, they are pretty much the only ones you'll be able to see until the leaves turn in the fall. This week, instead of Star Wars bouncing Spider-Man from theaters, the mall eightplex is likely to give you five Star Wars and three Spider-Mans. Artisan Entertainment CEO Amir Malin is concerned. "Some good word-of-mouth films may be squeezed out by some of these blockbuster films. It could be a very good film, but it may not have the dry powder available to open up with a huge performance...
...hustling to put its characters onscreen. Marvel earned $19 million in the last quarter of 2001, its first in the black since the bankruptcy. "There's an instantaneous awareness of Marvel properties among a lot of people, and that translates into dollars and cents," says Amir Malin, CEO of Artisan Entertainment, which has a deal to adapt 15 Marvel franchises. "The audience attracted is very significant, and I expect Spider-Man to open huge." So do a lot of other execs, apparently; five Marvel movies will open in the next 18 months alone...