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VIVID is central
Lonsdale’s newest fash-
ion destination.

Located at 1451
Lonsdale, the shop opened
two weeks ago at the former
site of Nicole Adrienne, a
Vancouver-based clothing
store chain.

Fans of Nicole Adrienne’s
popularly priced designs can
expect the same affordability
from Vivid, but with more of
a fashion edge.

The store is the second
location for owners Nicole
and Marcus Taylor, whose
Vivid on Fourth Avenue in
Kitsilano, opened earlier this
year, is a proven hit with
West Side style-seekers.

The fashions in store are
young and vibrant; and
include red-hot labels Jane
Doe from L.A. and
Sinequanone from France.

For fall, Vivid will soon
be bringing in trendy items
such as faux-fur bomber jack-
ets, pleather (synthetic
leather) pants, ankle boots
and python-print leather
bags.

To make way for the new
stock, all summer fashions

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DESPITE a major
stock market correction
this past spring, the
technology sector is
still growing quickly.
The growth, however, is
not necessarily taking place in
the same areas as it was six

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are currently 50% off.
Among, the bese buys: novel-
ty tank tops from L.A. for
about S15 and Buffalo
stretch flood pants in white,
fuchsia, turquoise or black,
for just $37.50.

New chapter
for Chapman

In a move te update his
company’s tweed and tartan
image, Edward (fed)
Chapman is closing the reiail
dynasty’s Vancouver ilagship
store.

Though popular with visi-
tors to the city, the store’s
shopping environment —
with its wood-panelled interi-
or and collection of antiques
and curios that include a vin-
tage Rolls Royce and three-

technology trends point to
where the growth for the
next six months is likely to
be.

Some trends we've high-
lighted: business to govern-
ment/consumer to govern-
ment electronic commerce,
m-commerce (online transac-
tions carried out using
mobile devices such as cell-
phones and hand-held com-
puters), e-commerce out-
sourcing, electronic customer
relationship management,
online business exchanges
and corporate portal
providers.

This week we look at four
“hot trends” for the next six
months — fiber-optic compo-

quarter scale model of the
Cutty Sark tea clipper ship —
no longer meets the needs of
today’s customer, says +1-
year-old Chapman, great-
grandson of the founder and
the fourth generation in the
business.

Ina letter two the press
announcing the store’s clo-
sure and planned relocation,
Chapinan points to his com-
pany’s newest shop, opened
Jast summer on Bellevue
Avenue, as the model for the
1 10-year-old company’s
future growth.

“It's the kind of store
that you can feel compietely
comfortable stopping at to
chat and have a brawse while
watking or running the sea-
wall,” he writes.

A new downtown bou-
tique will adopt the modern
look of the Bellevue bou-
tigue, which Chapman says
better complements newer
lines like Tommy Bahamas,
Nautica and DENY.

In praise of
skimpy skivvies

See Home-grown neat page

nent makers, ¢-rescue compa-
nies, mass storage providers
‘and Web-based training firms.
Fiber-optic component
makers: No surprise here.

Fibre-optic cable technology

has long Fen held out az-ife
infrastructure needed for:
more demanding online
applications, including video
on demand (also known as
streaming video or broad-
band). Recently, a number of
companies have continued to
make waves in this area,
including 360Networks
(which debuted as an initial
public offering April 20).
Even if North America’s
needs are filled, markets in
developing regions are just

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ERIN Hutton models a tank and three-quarter-length skirt from Rampage, eavail-
able at Vivid, Central Lonsdale’s newest fashion boutique. Also carried by the hip,” -

new store are hats and bags from Vancouver label Teresa Findlay (left). «

trends

beginning to come on line.
Right now, for example,
Global Telephony is laying a
fibre-optic cable that circum-
navigates Africa (as part of a
project called Africa ONE).

E-reszue: Chat rooms and
discussion forums all over the
Web are full of stories about
how various so-called “dot
com” companies will run out
of money soon. ‘The demands
of paying monthly salaries,
rent and other expenses
(known in the tech sector ds a
company’s burn rate) are
often high and a number of
high-profile firms are expect-
ed to need cash soon.

Enter the E-rescue busi-
ness, which is fronted by

in tech sector

some leading accountancy ©
firms that aim to help young
— and sometimes inexperi-
enced —~ business people get
to grips with tough concepts
such as cash flow and the
demand by investors for rev-
enue and eventual profitabili-

Mass Storage: Web sites
need more storage as their
sites grow -- good news for
providers of mass storage
devices. As demand for high-
er-speed connections to the
Web increases, so does the
amount of storage space peo-
ple need to hold the things

“they have downloaded.

Already, users are finding
their hard disks clogged with

large digital images, tunes
downloaded from MP3 digi-
tal music sites and, increas: .
ingly, movies downloaded in
the same way. As well, the
people running the world’s
most popular Web sites need
more storage as their sites
grow steadily larger. All this is.
good news for providers of
mass storage devices. Those
who stand to benefit include
HP (HWP), IBM (IBM),
Scagate (SEG), Sun -
Microsystems (SUNW) and
EMC (EMC).

EMC, for example,
recently told Bloomberg,

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