Other luxury retailers, like handbag designer Coach and watchmaker Fossil, experienced similar gains.
New York-based handbag designer Dareen Hakim, who sells to Henri Bendel and specialty retailer Intermix, has developed a similarly close relationship with her customers.
Call it the case of the billionaire vs. the handbag designer.
To date, his highest profile work has been a collaboration with handbag designer Anya Hindmarch, and spray painting the entire alphabet on the shop shutters of a street in Spitalfields in his signature ice-cream palette.
Even the lovers' kisses are copied from Hollywood, and the affair ignites over a fake designer handbag.
Next to that lie a designer handbag and some serious-looking files.
Gourmet chocolate bars are the equivalent of a designer handbag.
Ruth Zive is a professional writer and blogger, wife, mom-to-five (plus pooch), designer handbag enthusiast, Ashtanga yoga practitioner, special needs advocate, and vegetarian chocoholic (not necessarily in that order).
Nowadays, it's hard to imagine any photographer, or artist for that matter, not jumping at the chance to have his or her name in Vogue, collaborate on a designer handbag line or immortalizing this year's starlet with a photo in the buff.
It's a nice looking camera with a solid and fairly light build, certainly, and while the faux leather (in black, red or tan) might not be for everyone, the company was quick to point out that it'll go nicely with your new designer handbag, for whatever that's worth.
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For example, in the course of reporting the story, Luxury For Less: New Web Sites And Shops Offer Gently Used Designer Goods, Forbes contributor Wendy Goffe bought the handbag pictured above at the San Francisco consignment shop, Cris.
Samsonite has hired designer Quentin Mackay--who worked at Tanner Krolle, the British handbag-and-shoe firm, and Loewe, the Spanish handbag company--as global creative director.
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