But the key is to stick to bath towels, linens and other home products, and leave the high-fashion clothing to others.
Zara-owner Inditex, the biggest fashion clothing retailer in the world, has reported yet another increase in profits, helped by sales in Eastern Europe and its new online store in China.
This from the likes of a bakery operation in Spain, a Dutch newspaper group, a Rumanian mobile phone company and in the U.S., the fashion clothing companies of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger.
She understands that businesswoman, like her, want fashion forward clothing, but nothing too trendy.
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Fashion is clothing that evolves, and sometimes climbs out on a ledge (and sometimes jumps off).
Timmy Mowafi, owner of Greater Than Fashion, an online clothing retailer, is digging in to defend the scantily clad.
Emos often wear dark clothing similar to goths, but the fashion for spiky, coloured hair and studded clothing shows punk influences.
The city is also home to a vibrant fashion community, where dozens of independent designers and clothing brands influence country and continent-wide fashion trends.
Fashion, including footwear and clothing, would be the most popular category, followed by gadgets and consumer electronics.
Barbie is a "contestant" on TV's American Idol, and she's hanging out with Hilary Duff, who appears in Mattel's commercials promoting Barbie's doll clothing line, Fashion Fever.
Often, they are on performance-related pay schemes, schooling their staff in what colours and styles of clothing are in fashion and how to sift out treasures that might sell well at auction.
The industry has drawn ire from environmental activists for everything from the harm that happens during production, to the fast fashion cycle, which promotes disposable clothing.
Wal-Mart stumbled a few years ago with a push into high-end fashion, instead of sticking with cheaper clothing that suited its blue-collar customers.
In 1969, the fashion changed to more vibrant, hippie clothing.
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Lorency said Operation Compassion in fact got the goods but that most of that largess came from Fashion Delivers Charitable Foundation, a separate clothing industry-sponsored nonprofit that shared offices with K.I.
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The Hollywood Reporter writes that the eccentric thespian, known more for his roles in such films as Dangerous Liaisons and Being John Malkovich than for his fashion sense, has launched his own clothing label.
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"A clothing store's fall fashion lineup e-mail blitz is basically indistinguishable from spam, both for the technology providers and the customer, " says Scott Petry, founder of Postini, an e-mail security management provider in Redwood City, Calif.
The most popular purchases were textiles, clothing and footwear, suggesting that fashion bargains were top of many people's shopping lists.
It has teamed up for years with fashion designers to offer time-limited discount clothing collections, and it recently announced it will open a series of temporary boutiques featuring clothes, food and home furnishings from popular regional stores.
It has since evolved to encompass literature, art and fashion, with its exponents typically dressing in dark clothing.
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Next year will bring a global collaboration with Japanese clothing chain Uniqlo, fusing the two fashion brands' similar aesthetics.
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Although initially used to describe a form of music, it has evolved to encompass literature, art and fashion, with its exponents typically dressing in dark clothing.
Calling Hoffman "one of our country's living treasures, " Judge Dickran Tevrizian was upset that editors had superimposed new clothing on his Tootsie character for a fashion spread.
Fashion maker Ermenegildo Zegna is among the many big name clothing brands bewitched by watch making.
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Spectacles, a staple in Detroit indie fashion since 1984, continues to sell Detroit-themed clothing out of a small storefront downtown.
The impact of all these on fashion trickled down to British High Street and Savile Row clothing alike in the '70s.
British fashion designer Paul Smith took a break from overseeing his clothing empire to talk to a hundred or so fans and curious observers at the Apple Store in Covent Garden, London on Wednesday night.
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The family developed the upscale Miami neighborhood of Williams Island, has invested in fertilizer, auto parts and clothing companies, and owns a high-end fashion modeling agency.
His penchant for fashion took a new turn in 2002 when he launched his clothing company, Mrs Mudd -- a "sister" to his movie company, Mr Mudd.
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