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INTERNATIONAL | HONG KONG - The beginning of 2009 marks the end of U.S. quotas on all Chinese apparel, which means that American buyers should have been flooding Hong Kong Fashion Week to survey the 1,153 companies that had booths at the biannual trade show.
But with daily bursts of down-in-the-dumps economic news coming out of Washington, D.C., American buyers perusing the packed aisles inside the Hong Kong Convention Centre were wringing their hands. Overseas attendance inched up only 0.8 percent to 7,273 buyers. Total attendance, which included Hong Kong visitors, increased more»
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“They look good with a T-shirt or a dress shirt. I’ve barely taken them off since I bought them three months ago. It’s kind of gross.”
Do-it-yourself designer Jason Bourgeois in a New York Times article about the increasing popularity of the do-it-yourself style among the city’s hip young men. The key to the look, apparently, is taking scissors to dressy pants and embracing an artfully frayed hem.
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