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...known as Beno, especially to the hip set who flock to the crowded, invitation-only nightclub parties he's been co-organizing for the past 15 months. "I had projects in France but times were difficult," he explains. In Tokyo, by contrast, he finds things easier. The Isetan department store has begun stocking his clothing brand, Boëge, named after his home town in the Alps. He keeps an eye on French politics, but has few illusions. "There's so much inertia," he says. "It's a wonderful country, but the energy to succeed needs to return...
...shops worldwide, and sales have been growing at an average of 30% annually for the past several years. Greyhound, too, is widening its footprint: overseas sales increased twofold in 2005 and a new franchise store in Australia is planned for this year. Department stores around the world, including Isetan in Tokyo, Barneys in New York and Harrods in London, also stock Thai-designed clothes...
...million yearly in retail sales. He designs neckties, eyeglasses (for a frame like his own: about $45) and porcelain pieces, even as he continues to work for Trevira textiles as a "fashion adviser." He does a special line of men's and women's clothes for Isetan, a leading Japanese department store group, and is pondering a serious plunge into men's wear. "Yes," he says, with a discreet suggestion of feigned resignation, "I'm afraid I will do that...
...Betty Ford, American manufacturers sell few clothes in Europe. In Japan, by contrast, the American look has taken the country by storm. While Oscar de la Renta showed his new collection at the Hotel Okura last week, Calvin Klein's Japanese-made line was selling like sushi at Isetan department store, Tokyo's Bloomingdale's. Kashiyama, one of Japan's biggest garment manufacturers, uses a computer system to adapt John Meyer designs to the Japanese figure. Other companies have signed about a hundred contracts with American firms. American-style clothes rang up some $300 million...
...traditions and rummage through the holdings of Harvard Uni- versity and come up with a concise sampling of memorabilia would be cause for head scratching under nearly any circumstances. Yet "Introducing Harvard University" an exhibit opening this week in Tokyo's Isetan department store, will try-through a scant 1741tems-to portray one of the nation's oldest and most respected institutions to the Japanese...