Two years ago it launched Jennifer Lopez's JLO line of intimate apparel and also expanded into surf apparel with the Michael Kors swimwear license.

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And Mr Burrell - who denies stealing 310 items from the princess - was also accused, before the jury, of destroying some of her more "intimate apparel" such as underwear, a swimsuit, stockings, tights and exercise clothing.

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Ricky Ian Gordon is composing "Intimate Apparel, " with Lynn Nottage adapting her 2003 play about an African-American seamstress in 1905 New York, and composer Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner are working to expand "A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck, " their one-act opera based on Eugene and Carlotta O'Neill that opened at Cooperstown's Glimmerglass Opera in August 2011.

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