If your taste in fashion tends towards the Gallic, Galeries Lafayette (Friedrichstrasse 76 -- 78) offers elegant French design, perfumes, shoes and accessories.

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Each of the book's chapters is written by a locally based specialist (the authors include auctioneers, academics, consultants and dealers) who examines a country or region's art market history in terms of taste, fashion, value, art types, subjects, sales prices and records.

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What if they also already knew your fashion taste from your online purchase history?

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Munjal Shah, a Google product manager, said the company worked with about 100 fashion taste-makers such as celebrities, stylists, and designers to pick out clothing they like and teach Google's machine-learning algorithms about their style and tastes.

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The line between mere fashion and solid taste is a mutable one, and it is meant to be.

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These days Zhao wears designer knitwear and Italian brogues, a taste of the fancy imported fashion sold on his e-commerce site, Shangpin.

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He was amazed to find that freshly caught fish and duck, frozen quickly in such a fashion, retained their taste and texture.

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Make a Moda purchase, and the implicit aspiration is that you're buying into an exalted fashion-forward lifestyle a sorority of good-taste gals.

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Soon she was shadowing fashion buyer Mercedes Gonzalez, going to trade shows, meeting with sellers and getting a taste of her dream career.

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