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However, top on the agenda are always luxury and its core customer. And she has changed too. "She's a 50-year-old woman who has the attitude of a 30-year-old and in many cases the body of a 35-year-old," Katz says. She is also fluent in Chanel, conversational in Marni, and Thakoon curious. "And, obviously, you have to have a certain amount of affluence to afford the kinds of things we have to offer," says the Texas-born Katz, who began her career as a buyer at Foley's in Houston and whose second favorite...
...this core customer that the luxury bar rises and sets at Neiman Marcus. And the bar is higher than ever. A flourishing new Chanel category dubbed "demi-couture" rests between ready-to-wear and couture, with jackets ringing in at upwards of $6,000. Handbags have skyrocketed over the past two years, with the exotic-skin bags of Nancy Gonzalez special standouts. Fur is also flying out of the stores, including a Chado Ralph Rucci chinchilla clearly worth mentioning. And forward fashion, believe it or not, has stepped way up. "Eight years ago, the customer thought of Prada as being...
...read with mixed sympathy and frustration your editorials on Gen Ed and the Core (“Whither is the Faculty’s passion?” and “And What About Us?”, editorial, Sept. 19). Two years ago I introduced a sequence of two Freshman Seminars modeled on the year-long Literature Humanities core course taught at Columbia University. I am not alone. My department Chair, who teaches some very dynamic and successful Cores, also teaches the Columbia “Contemporary Civilization” sequence for the Extension School...
When I came to Harvard, back in 1993, a committee was preparing a long-awaited report on the Core. It concluded that everybody liked the program and was satisfied with it, though in the minds of everybody I knew this was fiction. I wrote to the committee chair with the observation that the document reminded me of the way the East German regime once cut a bridge to West Berlin in half and went on to name it the Brücke der Einheit, “Bridge of Unity?...
...want you to know: SCIENCE B-57: DINOSAURS AND THEIR RELATIVES Course Description: Science B-57 is a comprehensive exploration (aka memorization) of the most obscure bones of extinct lizards. While it’s billed as an easy way to cop out of the science core, in reality the only thing that’s easy is Professor Marshall’s accent on the ears. Overall: 3 Relevance to Life: 0 PowerPoint Presentations: N/A (Professor Marshall has gone back to prehistoric times himself and relies solely on the use of overheads) CHEMISTRY 30: ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Course Description: Topics...