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Matt, both you and your wife have wonderful taste, exceeded only by your acumen in trading! I bought some Gucci, Tiffany and RL pre-market during their IPOs, flipped them about 2 days later and rebought them for my long-termed portfolio during dips. In addition to these three, I have TOM, whose clothings I never once owned.
The shiniest stars in the current fashion constellation belong to that of Manolo Blahnik, Chloe (by Stella McCartney) and Issac Mizrahi, but I don't believe they are publicly traded companies. One socialite I know bought 40 pairs of Blahnik mules, slingbacks in one sitting, so I can imagine if his company ever goes public, the shares would be highly sought after and hyped about by the Street's elite crowds, GSCO, MSCO, MLCO and the like.
Unlike Peter Lynch, I don't pay enough attention to the companies that seek and receive my patronage in the fashion industry. For some reasons, I have difficulty mixing work and pleasure together, relying instead on my brokers to monitor them for me.
And of course you can call me Kim. Close friends call me Kimmie, and other calls me Kimberly, but I have no objection to any of the three.
Kimberly |
