Word: garments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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America's retailers have precious little to cheer about these days. Many of the best-known U.S. department-store chains are up for sale. Garment sales have been stagnant, and profits are squeezed. But then there is Donna Karan, a women's-clothing designer whose creations send department-store executives into fits of giddy optimism. The Queen of Seventh Avenue, as the fashion press calls her, Karan is chief executive officer and head designer of a five-year- old company that expects to rake in $115 million in revenues this year. Her sportswear line arrived in stores eight months...
...mortgage each month." In New York he would borrow $30,000 to $50,000 a week and lose about 80% of it over a weekend. "Then I'd steal," he says. Sometimes he would pilfer racks of dresses off the streets in Manhattan's garment district and sell them in a back alley. He adds, "There's plenty of times I've taken a gun and held up people -- and I'm a white-collar person." Fleeing to California to escape bill collectors, he started a successful garment business in Los Angeles but continued betting beyond his means; eventually...
RAWG joined the Greater Boston Legal Services, Local 26 and the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in backing the legislative efforts of CPAWC, a Chinatown based community organization. RAWG, the only area student group actively involved in the lobbying effort, participated with CPAWC in Harvard's multi-ethnic VISIONS conference in February, said Liao...
...Fifty percent of low-income is almost nothing. I don't know how they can expect us to live on that," said Kwai Ho Tam, an unemployed garment worker from Boston who spoke through an interpreter...
...names on the garment labels conjure up visions of croquet in the English countryside: Jennifer Moore, Christopher Hayes, Morgan Taylor, Charter Club by Jane Justin. The names seem perfectly suited to each designer's personal style as well. Moore proffers the pastel colors of the English garden in her pale pink skirts and sweaters. Taylor is known for undergarments, ranging from emerald green chemises to fuchsia-toned satin slips, which are sold in a boutique filled with Victorian-inspired lace and linen. What shoppers might be surprised to find out, though, is that these designers do not exist. Macy...