Word: sportswear
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cost that off-line plays do," says Mike May, an analyst at Jupiter Communications, an e-commerce research firm in New York City. "A single point of sale can be used to reach an entire country or the entire world." As Jay Herratti, president of Boo.com North America, a sportswear e-tailer, put it, "We could be global from...
...road without consulting pyrotechnic experts and an army of stylists. When WHITNEY HOUSTON kicks off her tour June 22, she'll bring trunk loads of costumes created for her by Italian designers Dolce and Gabbana. For each song, there is a fashion: gowns for ballads and edgy sportswear for up-tempo numbers. Alas, Whitney sings no zydeco...
...decorated his dorm room with posters of his school teams, cheered on the Wolverines at the Rose Bowl and proudly outfitted himself in Michigan sweatshirts and caps. Then last summer, during an internship with the AFL-CIO, he started to hear how Michigan and other colleges get their sportswear--by employing licensing companies that use overseas factories where garment workers toil long hours, often for pennies...
Among them are Josh Patner and Bryan Bradley, who constitute the design team Tuleh, a purveyor of fetching party wear. In business for just one year, the partners last week won a nomination for the prestigious Perry Ellis Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Sportswear too is flourishing, notably in the output of Patrick Robinson and Pixie Yates. And even ball gowns have a tasteful advocate in William Calvert, whose collection is sure to be the highlight of this week's South of Seventh event in New York City, which is intended to showcase the work...
Pixie Yates, 33, occupies the opposite but complementary end of the sportswear spectrum from Robinson. If he is dressing innately stylish FORTUNE readers, she has found an audience among the urban women-girls in their 20s and 30s who perhaps might relate to Bridget Jones' Diary more than they would acknowledge. Indeed, Yates' clothes have attracted some of the very celebrities--Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox--who seem affixed in permanent ingenuedom...