At the same time as promoting high fashion Neiman Marcus expanded from a speciality shop into an all-providing department store.

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For me one of the most endearing aspects of France, Italy, and most other European countries is that citizens shop at speciality stores for food.

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When you look at the black women who shop at Fashion Fair and who shop at MAC and Bobbi Brown and all the speciality lines, I think we go there because we want to get that service and we want to be able to ask someone, you know, who's a professional what they would do.

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