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Boutique

For example, before the release of the Wii, a Time Magazine article suggested that Nintendo could become a "boutique video-game company", producing games for niche audiences, rather than trying to compete directly with Microsoft and Sony.


Aidchild

Aidchild operates the Equation Gallery, an art gallery and café on the Equator line in Uganda; Ten Tables, a restaurant and screening room in Masaka, and Aidchild's Terrace Club, a rooftop barbecue venue and boutique hostel.

Aloft Hotels

Hotel Indigo was actually the first of these boutique hotel brands, with its first hotel opening in Atlanta as the Hotel Indigo Atlanta Midtown in 2004.

April Maiya

The brand was featured in Maxim, Stuff, FHM publications in the U.S. and Patricia Field boutique which subsequently landed the bikinis on HBO's popular Sex and the City series.

Bonnie Cashin

She designed for companies ranging including American Airlines, Samsonite, Bergdorf Goodman, White Stag, and Hermès; she was the first American designer to have a boutique in Liberty's of London.

Boutique hotel

In the United States, New York remains an important centre of the boutique hotel phenomenon, as the original Schrager-era boutique hotels remain relevant and are joined by scores of independent and small-chain competitors, mainly clustered about Midtown and downtown Manhattan.

Boutique law firm

Additionally, Alexandria-based IP boutique Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis merged with Pittsburgh-based Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney in 2005, Cushman, Darby & Cushman was absorbed by national firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman (then Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro), Houston-based Arnold, White & Durkee merged with Howrey (then Howrey & Simon), and Los Angeles-based Lyon & Lyon dissolved in 2002.

Boutique Week

Boutique Week also raises money for Nancy Lublin's non-profit organisation Dress for Success, supplying women with interview suits and resources they need for success in today’s workforce.

Briarcliff Middle School

The club runs an annual Charity: water fundraiser, and the club has held coat drives, provided relief for Hurricane Sandy victims, and organized a holiday boutique to raise money for the American Cancer Society.

Chateau Impney

Chateau Impney has 106 bedrooms, including boutique-styled rooms in the main building, and houses the Impney Restaurant and Bar and the Grand Bar, which features an oak-carved Jacobean staircase that extends upwards throughout the building and views that incorporate the Malvern Hills.

Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream

Chocolate chip cookie dough has become a standard add-on in Cold Stone, MaggieMoo's, and other boutique ice creameries.

Christophe Brunnquell

The popularity of Purple helped boosting his own career, and since then he has been working with art direction and design consultancy for, among others, Louis Vuitton, the Venice Biennale, Le Figaro’s fashion guide, Fabien Baron, Colette, Balenciaga, Céline, Cosmic Wonder, and Zucca.

Colcord

Colcord Hotel, a historic boutique hotel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Copper Coast Wines

All of the Company's boutique brewed products are produced under the strict supervision of the owner and chief brewer Richard Hasse Davis OAM, according to traditional secret family recipes and processes.

Dan Jewett

She Likes the Weather was re-released in April 2007 by Duritz' boutique record label Tyrannosaurus Records.

Dedicated Follower of Fashion

Boutiques such as Biba, designers like Mary Quant, and the television personalities like Cathy McGowan who popularized them became celebrated as much as the entertainers who wore their mod clothes.

DITTO

The company carries brands such as Ray-Ban, Persol, Chloé, TAG Heuer, and Vera Wang, as well as niche fashion and boutique brands like Jason Wu, Selima Optique, Alain Mikli, Anglo American, and John Varvatos.

Farra Design Center

From the side road on the Mkalles (Beirut) highway, the store gives the impression of being a small boutique while it is actually a large retail store with 7 levels of showroom.

Grey Poupon

It is still, however, manufactured for export, and a small amount continues to be produced for sale at the historic Maille-Grey-Poupon boutique on the Rue de la Liberté in Dijon itself.

Hamilton North, New Zealand

Located between Barton St and Angelsea St, Casabella Lane is a Spanish themed lane with 21 boutique shops and 9 apartments.

Iris von Arnim

In 1976 she opened a small boutique in Munich, and debuted her collection at the CPD fashion fair in Düsseldorf.

Johnstown, Dublin

Ulster Bank, newsagency, travel agency, cafe, florist and An Post sub-post office, auctioneers, hardware shop, boutique, EBS Building Society branch, Paddy Power bookmakers, Eurospar supermarket, pharmacist, Xtra-vision video rental store, The Graduate (Public house)

Katie White

Katie was working in a boutique with a Chinese girl called "Ting Ting," which sounds like Mandarin Chinese for "band stand" () or "listening" (聽) and Katie used it as name for the band.

Max Lake

Max Emory Lake, OAM (24 July 1924 – 14 April 2009) was an Australian winemaker and surgeon, who is generally regarded as the "father of the Australian boutique wine industry".

In the 2002 Australia Day Honours, Lake was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for service to the establishment of the boutique wine industry in Australia as a winemaker, judge, promoter and author.

Mount Pleasant Towne Centre

The shopping center is home to over 65 national and local retail stores such as Men's Wearhouse, Old Navy, Gap, Genealogy Boutique, and Coldwater Creek.

Neve Tzedek

Its main streets became lined once again with artists' studios, including the ceramics studio of Samy D., alongside trendy cafés and bars, and more recently boutique hotels and shops selling hand-made goods to wealthy Israelis and tourists.

Nicolas Cesbron

A sculptural wooden staircase he created is installed in the Christian Louboutin Ginza boutique in Tokyo.

North Potomac, Maryland

Travilah Square, long the area's only shopping center, is now facing tough competition from a new breed of new urbanism lifestyle centers, which contain a multitude of retailers, from Giant Food to new boutique chains.

Pierre Hermé

In 1998, he started his own brand name Pierre Hermé Paris with a pastry boutique in Tokyo's New Otani Hotel, followed in July 2000 by a Salon de Thé in the Tokyo Disney shopping area Ikspiari.

Proenza Schouler

Proenza Schouler is sold in over 100 of the most exclusive retail outlets worldwide, including Barneys New York, Bergdorf Goodman, Harvey Nichols, Colette, and Joyce.

Retail design

Some of the earliest examples of boutiques are the Biba boutique created by Barbara Hulanicki and the Habitat line of stores made by Terence Conran.

Scott Meyers

Meyers conceived and, with Herb Sutter, Andrei Alexandrescu, Dan Saks, and Steve Dewhurst, co-organized and presented the boutique (limited-attendance) conference, The C++ Seminar, which took place three times in 2001-2002.

Soultone

Marshall, Fender, Gibson, and Vox all currently offer entirely hand wired re-creations of their vintage products, often at costs lower than boutique competition.

St Marylebone School

In 1808, with the support of local philanthropist and social reformer Sir Thomas Bernard the school moved to 82 Marylebone High Street, which is now the boutique store Rachel Riley.

Stacey Oristano

She currently stars in Amy Sherman-Palladino's Bunheads as Truly Stone, the unhinged Sparkles clothing boutique owner and close friend to Fanny & Michelle.

Strange Boutique

On Saturday, July 3, 2004, Strange Boutique celebrated a brief reunion in Washington, D.C. The band played at The Black Cat with This Ascension and Siddal.

Susanne Bartsch

Moving to New York City in 1981, she opened a clothing boutique in SoHo that provided early exposure for British designers, including Vivienne Westwood, BodyMap John Galliano, and milliner Stephen Jones.

Suzy Creamcheese

A 1960s-1970s Las Vegas boutique named for the character is mentioned in the film Casino when Jennifer Santoro tells Ginger (Sharon Stone) about an article of clothing in the shop.

Sweaty Betty

Sweaty Betty was founded in 1998 by Tamara and Simon Hill-Norton with one boutique in London's Notting Hill.

Tariq Hanna

Tariq Hanna is Executive Pastry Chef and partner of the Sucré dessert boutique in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The GEM Hotel

The brand, which was launched in 2007, currently has three locations: The GEM Hotel Midtown West, The GEM Hotel SoHo and The GEM Hotel Chelsea, which was voted Best New York City Boutique Hotel in 2010 by Citysearch.

The Ignorant Fairies

Although she's initially devastated by the news and hostile toward Michele, she soon develops a friendship with him and his and Massimo's circle of gay, transgender, and straight friends, among whom are a Turkish immigrant, a playwright and a boutique owner.

Tokujin Yoshioka

In the line of space designs, Yoshioka has been producing the boutique designs for Issey Miyake for more than 20 years, and have provided space designs for Toyota, Hermes, Lexus, Peugeot, NTT, BMW, and for cosmetic brands as RMK and SUQQU, which also involved works for their product package designs.

Veteranz' Day

Although it managed to earn a distribution deal with Mercury Records by way of Joan Jett's and Kenny Laguna's Blackheart Records, which was acting as a boutique distribution outlet for independent labels from 1998 to 2000, The Label folded almost shortly after the release of Veteranz' Day.

WidowPC

The articles stated that Michael Dell contacted WidowPC, along with Richard Garriott and Robert Garriott and several other small, high performance boutique computer manufacturers for information about the computer gaming niche several months prior to acquiring Alienware.

Young Heart Attack

These recordings were issued as a 7-inch single on Leo Silverman's Rex Records boutique imprint.


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