Even in the best of times, selling designer clothes to Americans, who have spent the last 30 years happily if hideously accoutred in jeans and sweatpants, sneakers and baseball caps, is no enviable task. And these are not the best of times. Everyone in the business is terrified of a serious recession, like the one that has befallen the Far East, heretofore a major market for Chanel key chains, Louis Vuitton animal carriers, and other gewgaws that fuel... More >>>