If one department store buyer thinks teal will sell, maybe having some in inventory would be a good idea.

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At that point, Armani had worked as a window dresser and buyer at Milan department store La Rinascente and was designing for Italian menswear house Cerruti.

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In 2007 he persuaded a buyer at John Lewis Partnership, a department store owner, to carry two styles of Hunters at its store in Reading, England, the site of an annual music festival.

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