Saggy pants bans touch tourism and also people wanting to just walk or ride around the nation's cities in their everyday lives. Why is it that some legislators and their constituents have such distaste for others who don't look or dress the way they do? The bans do indeed have racist overtones.
Popular brands know no boundaries. Although fashion and luxury brands have crossed into the hotel industry, Ace is leading the way in smart brand expansion among a new generation of design and lifestyle hotels.
Rouge is cute, but it's approach is eerily reminiscent of earlier low-cost efforts in the U.S. by United and Delta to create their now-shuttered hip airlines, Ted and Song.
New designs don’t make airlines money, but they do build branding and more airlines will follow in the footsteps of ANA and Virgin Atlantic’s buzzed-about new threads.
As airlines prepare for the next phase, many of them are thinking harder about the uniforms their crews are forced to wear. Qantas decided to go whole-hog into to the affair and tried to use the new designs to signal a modern, sexy appeal for its crew members.
A crew that feels it looks good is always going to perform better than one that feels it is stuck in last decade's closet. Just ask the high-flying, well-dressed men and women of Virgin's airlines.