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• The UK supermarket chain Asda has knocked off the Fall '09 Balmain dress that Kate Moss wore out dancing — and burst the seams of — two months ago. Asda's version costs just £16. [Telegraph]

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For those who think of Mary Kay cosmetics as nothing more than a pink Cadillac full of mauve lipsticks, think again: when the company's handbook, The Mary Kay Way, came out 20 years ago, Mary Kay Ash's culty brand of get-rich-kinda-quick consumer marketing made it a bestseller. Or, as the blurb would have it, "it was Mary Kay’s goal in 1963 to build an organization that was guided by the Golden Rule and dedicated to giving women unlimited opportunities for success. She considered caring and kindness to be the building blocks of a highly motivated workforce—and the forty-five year success story that is Mary Kay Inc. has proven her right." More »
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According to a story in the Los Angeles Times, the Mary Kay cosmetic company — known for its eponymous blonde Texas founder and pink Cadillacs — has more and more Spanish-speaking women in its sales force. As writer Molly Hennessy-Fiske points out, getting a foot in the door at the beauty business doesn't require a high school diploma, or even that the salesperson speak English, making it appealing to California's immigrant population. Women like 60-year-old Altagracia Valdez work long hours selling makeup, often trying to convince women who do not have cash to spare. Valdez often deals with this by recruiting the women onto the sales force. Explains Valdez's boss, Sandra Chamorro, a single mother and immigrant from Nicaragua: "Sometimes a woman can have an empty stomach, but she has to have lipstick." More »
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