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...then, the market may already be crowded. Just before New Year's Eve, Tag Heuer hosted an all-night party for big spenders in Goa. About 400 diamond-dripping, air-kissing Indians decked out in brands like Manolo Blahnik and Balenciaga sipped champagne and sampled canap?s as they watched Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan play volleyball and emcee a bikini contest. "India cannot hide behind the fact that it is a developing country anymore," says Khan. "Every Indian now wants to own products that inspire awe and envy." Can the French sell cake to people who not long...
Cruise around eBay, and you may decide that auctions are too troublesome. If you gotta have that Balenciaga sweater, nothing beats the Buy It Now feature; simply meet the seller's price, and it's yours. Without that feature, in fact, eBay would make a lot less money. Fixed-price transactions accounted for about $14.6 billion in merchandise volume last year, a third of the total. So let's say you came up with that Buy It Now idea and filed for a patent. And let's say a jury concluded that eBay willfully infringed on your patent and owes...
...Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquière sandal...
...there's another surprise in store, literally, and it's not Dessureault's revelation that 495 Balenciaga bags have sold at Saks in just six weeks. Instead he leads me behind a boudoir-pink wall to a pretty blond in a matching pink uniform. She's wrapping a stack of saucy lingerie items for two women who are entirely veiled, including burqas. When they leave, Lisa Hastings, the manager of Agent Provocateur, explains that they are a mother and daughter shopping for the daughter's wedding lingerie, adding that she sells plenty of "playful" underwear to women wearing abayas...
Among the front-row crowd--an international group of buyers and press--there were whispers of the "Muslimification" of fashion. Were designers responding to conflicts in the Middle East by stitching some kind of political message into their silhouettes? Historically, many designers have explored the veiling concept. At Balenciaga, a cyclamen head scarf that appeared at the end of the show was a replica of a similar one Cristóbal Balenciaga designed in the '60s. Politics has surfaced in the past too. Eight years ago, the Turkish designer Hussein Chalayan presented a collection modeled by women in chadors...