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“Doing nothing wasn’t an option”: M.J. Bale CEO Matt Jensen

Inside Retail

Bale in 2009, some of the challenges you faced from the outset, and how you got the business off the ground during those early stages? Matt Jensen: It was a difficult market environment when we launched back in September 2009, given it was the back end of the GFC. But I can’t remember it being too challenging.

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Studio Anne Holtrop creates gypsum walls that look like fabric for Maison Margiela store

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Holtrop , who founded Amsterdam-based Studio Anne Holtrop in 2009, installed items of "misfit" furniture throughout the space. Featuring familiar forms that have been warped and skewed, these were designed to lean and fold around the interior. The Bruton Street store houses clothing as well as accessories.

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From Cobblestones to Cyberspace: VMSD Celebrates Its 125th Year of Service to the Retail Industry

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cities,” says Steve Kaufman, former Editor-in-Chief of VMSD from 1998 until 2009. He believed that merchandise presentation was an art form. In sharp contrast to the harsh realities of the Depression, the 1930s was the most elegant period in Hollywood’s history. And its editor was a sometimes-writer named L. Hansen Mfg.

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The Democrats Really Are That Dense About Climate Change

Robinson Meyer

Republicans, by contrast, have a plausible path to more than 60 seats, allowing them to pass legislation over that institution’s filibuster. Historically, progressives haven’t been too fond of ESG either, seeing it as a form of Wall Street greenwashing (or worse). Celsius report—signaled a new era of climate action.