collection, a lowerpriced line of handbags, shoes and other accessories targeted at younger customers. It was launched in July, with prices ranging between $200 and $600. That compares to Louis Vuitton's Madison collection, which has handbags going for more than $4,800. and abroad," chair and CEO Lew Frankfort said in a statement. "We have adapted our pricing and product strategies to be successful in what will become the 'new normal.'"

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Try looking around for imitation. If you don say anything, no one will know. :) I don mean try to find something cheapo and nasty that has a Louis Vuitton sticker on it or anything. Don go to that extreme. But you can get nice, leather wallets (and a lot of them are that style) for a lot less money. And Converse, the fat cat, was slow to react. Former UCLA Louis Vuitton John Wooden remembers telling his old friend Chuck Taylor in the late '60s that his product had Louis Vuitton Men Sunglasses slipped behind in the quality race. "They hadn't improved the insole; the cushion in the heel hadn't been improved; and the area around the little toe was a problem," says Wooden. "Even though my players wore them, I had to use a razor blade myself on every new pair to cut the seam that would be right over the little toe. If I didn't do that, the players would all have blisters." One can see the headline if Wooden hadn't been a cut-up: BLISTERS SLOW ALCINDOR AS SANTA CLARA SCORES MAJOR UPSET; WOODEN BLASTS CONVERSE.