With the huge success of the limited-edition Stephen Sprouse collection, Louis Vuitton is continuing the tribute by launching the Monogram Vernis Roses collection. The collection will be available in three colors: Rose Pop, Orange Sunset and Vert Tonic and consists of the Alma handbag and a new coin purse. Starting on April 1st, the Vernis Roses will be released online at Louis Vuitton and in stores worldwide. So hurry up ladies and help the economy out by spending all that money!
I have to say after reading this on Bossip, I had to re-post it on my site just because I am happy that there is some progress being made in our community. We all know(Black people that is) how the police go out their way to mess with us. So it's good to hear that some of us have stopped putting ourselves in their cross hairs. Or at least brothers out there have decided to be really low key with their moves.“I’m encouraged that there are fewer African-Americans in prison for drug offenses,” said Marc Mauer, the executive director of the Sentencing Project and the report’s author. “But the overall number of blacks in prison is still high, and we’ve replaced some of those black drug offenders with white drug offenders. The racial disparity has lessened, but the overall effect of the drug war has not.”
Experts in criminal justice suggested several reasons for the decline in imprisoned black drug offenders, including a reduction in racial profiling, a drop in open-air drug sales and a cooling of the crack cocaine trade that devastated urban communities throughout the 1980s and ’90s.Blacks continued to make up the largest segment — 44 percent — of all prisoners serving time for drug offenses, although they were only 12 percent of the total population, while whites, who were 75 percent of the national population, made up 27 percent of all imprisoned drug offenders. The incarceration rate for Latino drug offenders in state prisons was substantially unchanged, 20.2 percent in 2005, down from 20.7 percent in 1999.
What do you think about this?
Sales of women’s apparel fell 6 percent in the U.S. in the first nine months of 2008. But sales of menswear rose 1 percent. Even Tom Ford, who makes $10,000 fur boots and $900 jeans, said sales are brisk. “Women move from brand to brand depending on who has done a particular trend,” Ford explains. “Men go into a store and they will spend more money because they’ll buy for the whole season. They don’t look at shopping as a recreation the way women do.” So men are creatures of need, and $5,000 Tom Ford suits are necessities. I am glad to hear that its us men who are helping the fashion industry move a head even if its at a snails pace!
This does not mean clothing stores will take over all the vacant ground-floor commercial real estate in the city, sadly. Just because there’s more, cheaper real estate doesn’t mean everyone’s not broke anymore. Stores have plans for the year of how many stores they’re going to open, and they’ll probably stick to those plans. Many stores are probably just looking to move to better locations.
So who knows how many of these deals will go through. Because no matter what the market’s like, looking for real estate in Manhattan is always basically the most difficult and loathed activity in the entire world.
I'm glad that I have been blessed to own some property in Manhattan, only because the value almost always goes up no matter what. Knowing that people are starting to spend helps people else where because if companies and investors are spending on real estate in Manhattan and finding deals, there are crazy deals available else where around the country. So if you have the cash on hand to invest this is the best time to because the values have pretty much bottomed out.
