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AeWear’s model start; |
J. Gregory off Quay

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swith the opening of
the hip clothier’s Latest loca-
tion. The Leone family opens
its fourth Ae Wear store this
weekend, at Park Royal's
north mall. Others are located
at Sinelair Centre in
Vancouver, Lansdowne: Park
Mall in Richmond and on
Goverment Street in

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The Park Roval Ae Wear
features TV monitors that
broadeast fashion trends, 2
cappuccino bar and 4,000
square feet of affordable men’s
and women’s fashions.

AeWear garments,
designed in-house amd manu-
factured in Vancouver, are
strong on detail and style, says
Patrizia Leone, who is over-
secing the campaign.

Men and women are invit-
ed to bring a photo with name
and phone number on back to
any A®Wear location.

Winners of the model
search will appear in A®Wear’s
next advertising campaign.

The contest closes Sept.
30, with winners announced
Nov. 16.

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This summer, the Salvation
Army is urging shoppers to
get nd of old hang-ups.

The NEWS and Park Royal
have joined together with the
non-profit organization to
help promote its Blue-Bag-It
campaign.

The program, which
encourages shoppers to drop
donations of unwanted cloth-
ing at the mall, was launched
Saturday in shopping centres
across Western Canada. The
campaign continues to Aug.
29, at which time organizers
hope to have collected
140,000 bags of donated
clothes. That translates to two
million pounds of clothing,
says Bluc-Bag-It consultant
Cary Gaymond.

The program will accept all
manner of garments, regard-
less of their condition, since
“everything is totally, 100%
recycled,” she says.

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Clothing in good condi-
tion is resold at S.
Amy thrift stores or donated
through the Army's family ser-
vices program. Wort-out gar-
ments are sold by the pound
and shipped to overseas recy-
cling plants. Thar means your
polvester pants may return as
car lining or vour cotton T-
shirt as a rag rug. Park Royal's
Bluc-Bag-It bin is located in
the north mall at centre court.

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J. Gregory is the latest
store to set sail from Lonsdale
Quay. The’ men’s apparel store
closed its doors a week ago
Saturday.

Owner Bill Van Unen said
he “lett a very good business
behind.” After seven years in
the waterfront development,
he decided not to renew his
lease.

Van Unen cited problems
with management as the rea-
son for leaving. General man-
ager Janice Maclean was
unavailable for comment to
press time. In the last year and
a half, the Quay has lost many
of its upstairs fashion retailers,
including Zig Zag, Melrose
Avenue, Melrose Place,
Casablanca, Sock Exchange
and the Something Special lin-
geric boutique.

While there have been a
few new arrivals — First
Impression, Sunstroke and
Jeans Republic among them
— empty storefronts remain.

Meanwhile, Van Unen is
enjoying a surge of business at
his Caulfeild Village location,
which he opened in Oct. 96.
Van Unen’s son, Jason, will
open a second J. Gregory in
White Rock in August. Van
Unen hopes to reopen in the
Lower Lonsdaie area, this time
with a strect-front location, in
late fall or carly spring.

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NEWS photo Paul McGrath

FASHION retailers continue to vacate the Lonsdale
Quay's second-level shopping concourse.

NEWS photo

CARY Gaymond of the Salvation Army (centre) is

joined by Cindy Lone (left) and Maria Wilson, both of

Park Royal, at the north mall's clothing recycling
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Sunday, August 2, 1998 — North Shore News — 13

PATRIZIA Leone marks the opening of her family’s
fourth AeWear store with a model search to coincide
with the Park Royal launch this weekend.

NEWS photo Mike Wekefiotd

WITH the closure of his men’s apparel store J. Gregory
in Lonsdale Quay last week, Bill Van Unen is enjoying a
surge of business at his Caulfeild Village location.
Another J. Gregory will open in White Rock next month.

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