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Showing posts by Anne Riley-Katz - West Coast Retail Editor
The power of celebrity, L.A. style, is something to behold.
Drivers stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the 405 freeway last week opened their car windows to talk about Michael Jackson. For a brief moment, the entertainer brought them together during a week in which show business luminaries Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon also died in Los Angeles.
Drivers stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the 405 freeway last week opened their car windows to talk about Michael Jackson. For a brief moment, the entertainer brought them together during a week in which show business luminaries Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon also died in Los Angeles.
The paparazzi may have to look for another hunting ground.
Retailing in Los Angeles and environs is being slammed in the recession and even celebrity-friendly shopping streets like Robertson Boulevard are feeling it. Dozens of specialty retailers have closed across the metro area and others are shrinking.
Retailing in Los Angeles and environs is being slammed in the recession and even celebrity-friendly shopping streets like Robertson Boulevard are feeling it. Dozens of specialty retailers have closed across the metro area and others are shrinking.
Posted in: Retail
If knowing when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em is the key to gambling success, Sin City might have misjudged its bet on luxury retail.Reinvention has long been among Las Vegas' strengths and the construction cranes that hover over the Strip are symbolic of the city's ability to recast itself: a desert boomtown, gangsters' paradise, cheap getaway, family friendly playground, haven for bacchanal and an outpost of preeminent hospitality, dining and shopping.
Posted in: Retail
Anand Jon
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Scott Gries/Getty Images
A key part of the defense strategy rests on the argument that the nine alleged victims, aged 14 to 21, hoped to use Jon's status for their own gain and then turned on him when they didn't succeed.
Although Jon wasn't a pivotal figure in the fashion industry, some viewed him as a rising talent, even as others said his work was more flash and self-promotion than substance.
