- Andrea Leon Talley (ALT) Editor at Large for Vogue magazine will be honored with the Fashion Oracle Award Oct. 25. The award is being sponsored by Lord and Taylor
- Fast Retailing Co, a Japanese equity firm has submitted a bid to acquire Barneys from the Jones Apparel Group for a reported $900 million dollars cash. They are the second company to show interest in acquiring the upscale store. In June, Istithmar (private equity firm based in Dubai) entered a definitive agreement for $825 million dollars cash.
- Tumi is setting its sites on women handbags. The company will open a stand alone womens handbag shop on Madison and 82nd street in NY around September.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Fashion news
News of the day
- Ohio ranks among the top states with the highest foreclosure rate with 44,594 homes in foreclosed status. The other states are California, Florida and Texas.
- Leonard Schlesinger, Limited Brands 2nd in command resigned amid speculations that his role was diminished after the recent sell-off of the company. He was the COO as well as Vice chair and right hand man to Mr. Wexner.
- Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse on the cap, my FAVORITE in the city, was robbed this morning. No one has been arrested as of yet but it seems the assailant was someone who was familiar with the restaurant and it's General Manager-the lovable Chad Allard.
Loubou's or condo??
I personally think this is a really good article. I'm not sure if I woudl have the will to deprive myself of certain things but if I know what it's for in the end I might be able to do that. Maybe a group of people should get that rolling, that might bring more attention and positive energy to those overpriced condos downtown. Seriously, how does a developer think that they can just go and build and build with nothing to attract but a 10yr abatement?? Why can't they open a boutique right below one of those condos? Why can't a grocery store connect high street downtown and the short north? Just a though
Monday, July 30, 2007
Ushmeka- is it my bsness?
I really was going to avoid talking about this as it concerns me in no way shape or form but i will. The back story is she dated him while she was married with 3 kids. His momager fired her 'cause she was too close for comfort. Fast forward a couple of months and almost final divorce, she rears her head and all of a sudden they're engaged- FAST! So now they were to be "married" in the Hampton's this past weekend but then it was called off. Why? 1) her thieving not classy self was exposed by her...half sister. 2) Usher realized he fired momager for HER(ewww). 3) she wouldn't buy her mom a new set of teefs. Now she is supposedly in a hospital with pre-term labor. Yea right, she knows she's not preggars, she wants to nail him down somehow and she wants to be relevant in fashion, 2 of the 3 will NEVER happen. Lets keep it classy people (ugh).
Fashion news
Roberto Cavalli for H&M launches Nov. 8 in 200 select stores but not Columbus,OH (ugh!)
The World needs more of her
From The Columbus Dispatch:
Lois Chappelear for 47 years she lived at Woodland Meadows, the East Side apartment complex so crime-infested and decrepit that the city is tearing it down. She rode the bus. She worked in factories until she was 70 years old. She never married and never had children.
But she came from a huge family of high achievers -- she was the eighth of 13 children.
She left Woodland Meadows only when the city condemned the property. She moved across the street to another apartment complex. She watched PBS and read poetry. She once stopped with a niece to eat lunch and asked that they sit somewhere so they could keep an eye on the car. She said she had $9,000 in her bag. That shocked the niece, but she figured it was all the money her aunt had in the world. Lois must not have trusted banks, the niece figured, growing up during the Depression.
She died in April at 80 years old, just as she had lived. A nephew found her in a chair with the television still on. It was the kind of anonymous end people expected from Lois Chappelear.
Then the family got a look at her will.
Lois grew up on a small farm in Morgan County in southeastern Ohio, the daughter of a schoolteacher and a homemaker. "They all had an intense love of learning," said Mary Ellen Wright, 68, the daughter of Lois' oldest sister. "Every single one of them graduated from high school. Back then in Morgan County, that was a real rarity."
Almost all of the siblings came to Columbus to find work. Lois worked in a factory or factories -- in keeping with the private way she lived, her family can't quite remember. Her brother recalls a shoe factory.
And that was about it. She talked to her nieces and nephews regularly. She died April 22. Other family members thought she was essentially destitute. They offered to help, and she said no. She told Mary Ellen that it was very important to her that she be able to pay for her own burial.
And so the first shock came: Michael Chappelear found that his aunt's estate added up to well over $100,000. The same woman who wore clothes until they were falling apart and then sewed them back together, who never paid more than $350 a month for rent, had plenty of money. She had saved.
In retrospect, Mary Ellen Wright said, maybe she could have seen the second shock coming. The love of AmeriFlora, the love of poetry. She never mentioned paintings, though.
Lois once told her youngest sister, Sandra Towles, that she planned to give some money to the Columbus Museum of Art. She apparently didn't tell anyone else.
"I said, 'That's very nice.' Then it went right out of my head," Towles said.
Here was the second shock: Lois wanted her entire estate, which even after expenses is still more than $100,000, to go to the museum.
The museum has no record of her being a member or a volunteer. A spokeswoman said that because the museum had not yet received the gift, museum officials could not talk about it. The development office was in contact with the Chappelear family, though.
Michael said that the bequest will be made by the end of the year, once all the details are worked out.
But why the Columbus Museum of Art?
Every relative has a theory, but most are like Michael Chappelear's. His aunt lived in a terrible place that she couldn't seem to part with. She had to stay inside at night to keep away from the crime. She might have been scared.
This is the best explanation Michael Chappelear can give for her last wish:
"I wonder if she didn't use the museum as a way to see some beauty in the world."
Jeb.phillips@dispatch.com
http://www.dispatch.com/
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Roberry gone right
I think this is how the conversation in his head went. "Yo ima bout to pull this lick son, be back with some black & mild and some licor... You gotta get on the roof-shit!..... oh damn i fell. Where are those scratch offs man i needs to win some money you....shit can't go right fo me today guess i'l just let the man take me away" - Being a dumb robber pays
Jeb Magruder-too much drinky
Jeb Magruder, a former aide to Nixon involved with the WATERGATE scandal, has been charged in an accident he was involved in 7/23 on Rt 315. A known regular at Hyde Park on the cap
Jeb Magruder, 72, faces two counts of failure to maintain an assured clear distance and one count of failure to stop after an accident or collision. The charges are misdemeanors.
Magruder, of 34 W. Poplar Ave. in Victorian Village, was hospitalized after the two crashes, which occurred four minutes apart Monday morning on Rt. 315 near the Ohio State University campus.
He had been listed in serious condition at Riverside Methodist Hospital on Monday night. According to police reports, Magruder first rear-ended a motorcycle driven by Robert J. Gewirtz, 40, of Bexley at 10:45 a.m. in the northbound lanes of Rt. 315 at W. Lane Avenue.
Gewirtz was thrown from his motorcycle but was not seriously injured.
Witnesses to that crash told police it appeared that Magruder had pulled his Audi A4 onto the shoulder before speeding away at an estimated 80 mph.
The second crash occurred near the North Broadway exit, when police said Magruder hit the rear of a box truck before slamming into a concrete divider. Magruder was pinned in his wrecked car.
The truck driver, Raphael Peterson, 25, of Springboro, south of Dayton, wasn't seriously hurt.
Police said Magruder told them at the hospital that he could not recall much about the crashes. The reports said alcohol was not suspected.
Magruder has been in trouble in Ohio before Monday.
Grandview police arrested him on a charge of persistent disorderly conduct while intoxicated after officers said he passed out on a sidewalk in 2003. Though he called the charge "ludicrous" at the time, he later entered a guilty plea to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct.
A state trooper charged Magruder with drunken driving in Fayette County in 2005. The charge was later reduced to reckless operation, Municipal Court records from Washington Court House show. He pleaded guilty to the lesser charge and paid a fine.
A retired Presbyterian minister, Magruder spent seven months in prison for his role in the break-in at the Watergate Hotel and cover-up while he was working for Nixon, who resigned over the political scandal in 1974.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Columbus Crew vs Toronto FC July 22
Her are some pictures from the Columbus Crew vs Toronto FC on July 22 at crew stadium. They won 2-0
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
LiLo BUSTED!!
Lindsay Lohan was arrested! According to the L.A. County Sheriff's Dept., just turned 21-year-old Lohan was nabbed around 2:15 AM near Pico Boulevard and Main Street early Tuesday morning. They also found a controlled substance in her pocket upon booking which most certainly is probably cocaine. Her Bond was set at $25,000. She was released this morning
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