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Fashion

2. Isaac Mizrahi's Striped Shirts for Target

By Kate BettsThursday, Dec. 18, 2003
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A shopper leaves a Target store with a shopping cart of items

Mizrahi gets the prize for making cheap clothes look seriously chic. His line of $29 striped shirts and $9 sunglasses for Target flew off the shelves, and defined a new fashion category: "masstige." Now every high-end designer is rushing to the mall.

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