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...CLOUD NINE For bed linens, Hersh raves about Cloud Nine Comforts, a new shop in Brentwood that sells its own linen-cotton line and will send someone to your house to outfit your bedroom. "This is the ultimate Los Angeles service experience. One phone call, and they'll take care of it." 310-207-1257 or cloudninecomforts.com...
...Elie Saab couture), is about to open a kids' store called Lolly Pop in the Village Mall. But how to find her now? Right in front of us is a site map that is cut into complicated colored cross sections. We're completely confused. Alanoud whips out her cell phone. "Upstairs? By Mont Blanc and Diesel...
...tech-savvy Japan, cell-phone commerce is an $83 billion industry. The leader is Xavel, which launched girlswalker.com the first free-of-charge cell-phone consumer portal. Six years later, it's the country's most popular cell-phone shopping site, garnering 100 million hits a day. Its partner, girlsauction.com boasts 1.5 million members and $43 million in monthly cell-phone transactions. "If I was going to do business, I was going to do it with women in their 20s and 30s," says CEO Fumitaro Ohama. "I wondered why nobody thought of it, considering they are such a huge market...
Another thing nobody thought of was a buy-it-as-you-see-it fashion show. In August, Ohama, 34, threw Japan's largest fashion event to date, the Tokyo Girls Collection. The 12,600 attendees?and 15 million people watching the live cell-phone broadcast?could purchase items on their phones as soon as they appeared on the catwalk. Shin Akamatsu launched his Joias line at the festival and received more orders than the established labels did. "We struck gold right from the beginning," says the creative director, who saw $4.2 million in sales in five months. Other brands plan...
...made, he thinks, three separate visits to the emergency room. After having his wound cleaned and cauterized, he would begin to return home, only to turn around when the bleeding started again. On July 5, Brown underwent surgery in Pittsfield, Mass. to clean up the wound. Walsh received a phone call at 6:30 a.m. It was Morgan’s mother, Juliana. “Morgan survived the operation last night,” she said. “He’s going to be okay.”“I had no idea...