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What's worn beneath surfaces at Nordstrom
Jumping from conception to hanging wares on a Nordstrom rack in two years might seem unrealistic for most retailers. Not so for Zovo, an upscale lingerie retailer started in 2005 by former Starbucks executive Victoria Roberts. In the past two years, Zovo has opened a store in Seattle's University Village, launched a retail Web site and designed its own collection of intimate apparel. The Zovo line, already sold at high-end boutiques nationwide, will be available at Nordstrom stores in downtown Seattle and Bellevue, Wash., by August 21. The collection will also be sold at a Nordstrom opening in Denver in October. Zovo's premiere collection includes lingerie, as well as loungewear, silk fashion tops and cashmere robes. With panties at around $30, lounge pants for $140 and robes at around $180, Zovo expects to fit in well with Nordstrom's niche.
Gilles Mendel knows his cool customer
For the J. Mendel label's spring collection, shown Friday at New York Fashion Week, designer Gilles Mendel did everything he could to make it cool. He wasn't aiming for that leather-jacket sort of cool, nor was he necessarily striving for temperature cool since he showed fur on clothes that are supposed to be for warm weather. Instead, Mendel's line was cool in that grace-under-pressure way that his socialite customers appreciate. Many of them were indeed in the audience at the Bryant Park tents, as were celebrities Carrie Underwood, Jamie-Lynn Sigler and LeAnn Rimes. They had their choice of a sand-colored sleeveless coat dress, a white cotton pantsuit with lattice-style details and white python trim or a lavender satin-faced chiffon dress with ruching, more lattice patterns and feathers.
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