By the time I graduated from college and landed my first real job, I knew exactly what I was going to do with the money: buy brand new clothes.

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Raids in the Las Flores district of Buenos Aires, home to a host of small sweatshops, recently resulted in the closure of three manufacturers of counterfeit brand-named clothes.

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Once one of the performers on Kenya's emerging hip-hop scene, his brand started to shine when he made clothes for his musician friends.

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Or, you can skip the brand names and get well-made, attractive clothes, shoes and handbags for a lot less than the designer labels.

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The same hip-hop crowd that made the clothes famous eventually helped to sink the brand, after white suburban kids decided that they'd had enough of the gangsta look.

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The company said the reception has been warm to the 10 mini-shops that it rolled out last fall, including those for Levi's brand and Penney's new JCP line of casual clothes.

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Its affordable clothes are tinged with hipness, stemming from the brand's Japanese provenance, limited American availability and Manhattan gloss.

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Zappos, which sells shoes and clothes online, was a most trusted e-commerce brand.

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In 2009 it plans to offer women's clothes from Dana Buchman, a renowned women's apparel brand that is a division of Liz Claiborne.

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You know, it's clothes that I've design so I'm even looking forward to building my brand.

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