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Donald Fisher Dead: Gap Co-Founder, 81, Dies

AP | SARAH SKIDMORE | Posted 09.27.2009 | Style

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PORTLAND, Ore. — Donald G. Fisher, who co-founded apparel giant Gap Inc., has died at age 81 after a long battle with cancer. The company said ...

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Who Knew? Fall '09 Winner Is the Gap

Michael Cohen | Posted 11.23.2009 | Style

Read More: Barney's, The Gap, Donny Deutsch, Banana Republic, Bravo TV, President Obama, Starbuck's, Designer Jeans, Madison Avenue, Adidas, Prada, Helmut Lang, Miami Social, Style News
Michael Cohen

I slipped on the Gap's Easy Fit jeans. I looked like a straight guy who might be heading to Applebee's for dinner. Not so much. It got worse with the Standard Jean. I looked like President Obama.

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Mad Men Fashion Goes Bananas

Stephanie Green | Posted 09.07.2009 | Style

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Stephanie Green

Fashion insiders, especially top New York designers like Michael Kors, have rhapsodized about the unique flair and old-school glamour of the AMC hit show Mad Men.

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Is Mad Men a Feminist Show?

Tom Matlack | Posted 08.13.2009 | Entertainment

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Tom Matlack

What makes the show tick is our sense that it's realistically portraying something important about the treatment of women at a certain point in the past while portraying something equally important about men today.

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'Mad Men' To Collaborate With Banana Republic

New York Times | Stuart Elliott | Posted 08.10.2009 | Style

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The partners joining forces for the "Mad Men" marketing blitz include Banana Republic, Clorox, Vanity Fair and Variety. The efforts are more extensive...

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We Already Went Through Our 'Banana Republic' Phase

Steve Benen | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

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Steve Benen

Republican lawmakers and officials are all using the same coordinated phrase, but they don't seem to know what a "Banana Republic" is.

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Is the U.S a Banana Republic?

Michael Pento | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics

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Michael Pento

The two hallmarks of a banana republic are very high rates of inflation coupled with substantial government controls over the economy, which lead to high rates of unemployment and poverty.

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Banana Peels

Jan Herman | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Photography, 9/11, Newspapers, Banana Republic, Headlines, Las Vegas, Terrorism, Media News
Jan Herman

The excuse for running the photo was an FAA warning that the city's building boom could complicate Southern Nevada flight traffic 10 years from now. Uh-huh...

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Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.25.2008 | Entertainment

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Mike Ragogna

When it was announced that 600 Starbucks outlets were closing, the music business shared the hit: less stores, less counter and display space, less product, less revenue.

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