The following year Korean department stores Lotte and Galleria came to the pair asking them to open what is called a "shop-n-shop"--the designer pays the department stores rent and manages the inventory and display (versus the U.S., where department stores buy stock of the brands they carry).

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Earnings were plowed back into opening more shop-n-shops at other department stores like Hyundai and Samsung.

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Before Holbrooke was sworn in, Helms asked the White House to appoint an alternate U.N. delegate: Irwin Belk, a feisty North Carolina buddy who heads a department-store chain.

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