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...with yellow socks to match. These days the real estate developer, art collector and former chef is having fun with fashion. As CEO of NRDC Equity Partners?the private-equity firm that bought Lord & Taylor?Baker is the proud new owner since October of America's oldest department store. And he's overseeing a makeover as bold as his brightly colored tie. To prove his dedication to the turnaround, he and his wife have made a pact to buy almost all their clothes from the retailer, and everything he is wearing except the tie ("I had clothes before I bought...
...take over three months to finish one of Obin's pieces, whether it's a shawl or shirt. Be aware of that as you browse the shelves of Bin House, her flagship store, and raise your eyebrows at price tags in the hundreds of dollars (a top-of-the-line item, like a custom-made wedding kebaya, or blouse, can cost up to $10,000). "I am simply trying to breathe new life into the craft," Obin says. "What I would really like to do is wrap the whole world in cloth." So long as it's her cloth...
...instead of forward. Both candidates have pointed out that of the main three Democratic contenders, Senators Clinton, Obama and John Edwards of North Carolina, who all are vying for the nation’s top executive office, not one has run so much as a “corner store.” Apparently, they can’t say enough about the Democrats...
...time, and by 1800 it was so choked that ships might wait two weeks, at the mercy of "river pirates" and "scuffle hunters," for a vacant berth. London's answer was to build the great docks at Wapping and the Isle of Dogs, as well as gigantic warehouses to store the city's burgeoning trading wealth. Work on the docks spawned whole new riverside communities in areas such as Silvertown, which flourished for 150 years before fading with the advent in the '70s of container ships too big even for the Thames. But Ackroyd is no damp-eyed nostalgist...
...nixed. “There’s a very lucrative and sensitive relationship between the Coop and University Hall that is stopping students from saving money on textbooks,” Hadfield said. Zafran, after his altercation with the Coop, does not feel much sympathy for the store. “If they want to get their revenue up they should slash their prices,” Zafran said. “I think if anything, this policy will have the reverse effect because if students aren’t allowed to comparison-shop, students will just...