[colechristensen]

In major US cities, there is sometimes one department store that meets this qualification, like San Francisco, Chicago, or New York, but even those are in decline.

>super high end designer gear

In theory this is what they're trying to project, but what it actually is around here is designers who were high end decades ago who have since dumped their quality and started selling to K-Mart. First you start selling to the rich, then you start selling to teenagers, then you put your label on anything hoping the symbol has some small value left.