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August 1-7, 2008
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RETAILING | The ink is barely dry on Mervyns’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, and the industry is ready with advice to reinvigorate the mid-tier department-store chain
The Haywood, Calif.–based retailer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on July 29 in the wake of other high-profile bankruptcies such as East Coast retail chain Steve & Barry’s.
Retail consultant George Whalin, president of Retail Management Consultants in Carlsbad, Calif., said the time is right for a lower-priced chain such as Mervyns to make a comeback.
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“I guess all these years of not going and not paying dues means that I wasn’t in it. Occasionally I have to go to the CFDA dinner, for which I have to take a Xanax because I can’t make it though without a tranquilizer, that’s just it, I’m sorry.”
Designer Isaac Mizrahi discussing his recently renewed membership in the Council of Fashion Designers of America in a profile of the designer and new creative director for Liz Claiborne in The New York Observer
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