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Article: MIZRAHI DESIGNS `SEMI-COUTURE' FOR BG.
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- WWD
- Article date:
- August 4, 2005
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Byline: Marc Karimzadeh
NEW YORK -- Isaac Mizrahi continues to straddle the worlds of mass and class, selling off-the-rack fashions at Target and made-to-order at Bergdorf Goodman.
For his next project, however, the designer wanted to hit a spot somewhere in the middle, and so the idea of what he calls "semi-couture" was born. The collection of 10 pieces will launch exclusively at Bergdorf's in two weeks.
Unlike the custom collection Mizrahi launched at the specialty store last year, semi-couture features off-the-rack pieces in four sizes and wide, basted seams that will be finished for customers in just one sitting with a store seamstress.
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