Ralph Lauren's Club Monaco :: Made in the USA

At a time when artisan skill and the "Made in fill-in-the-blank" are proving to be revenue drivers, Club Monaco is pushing its Made in the U.S.A. label. While the Club Monaco brand was born in Toronto, Canada in 1985, it changed nationalities when the Ralph Lauren group acquired it in 1999 and is now offering its "Made in the U.S.A." line.

This collection of forty items has been designed by Aaron Levine, artistic director of Club Monaco, and blogger Michael Williams of A Continuous Lean. Together they have created a line of casual shirts, jackets, ties and trousers, all manufactured in different workshops in the United States. The line's price points include shirts for $160 and ties under $100, rounded out by fine leather goods or shoes made in America by brands like Wolverine, Ernest Alexander, Rancourt, and Wood & Faulk Northwesterner.

However, the line, which can be viewed on the Club Monaco website, is not content with just the U.S. market but is looking to promote its name beyond national borders. Time will tell if such products can win over the Asian market. In Europe, Made in the U.S.A. is already available in Anthem, one of the trendiest clothing stores in London’s Shoreditch area.

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In Girl’s Last Hope, Altered Immune Cells Beat Leukemia

It is hard to believe, but last spring Emma, then 6, was near death from leukemia. She had relapsed twice after chemotherapy, and doctors had run out of options.

Desperate to save her, her parents sought an experimental treatment at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, one that had never before been tried in a child, or in anyone with the type of leukemia Emma had. The experiment, in April, used a disabled form of the virus that causes AIDS to reprogram Emma’s immune system genetically to kill cancer cells.

The treatment very nearly killed her. But she emerged from it cancer-free, and about seven months later is still in complete remission. She is the first child and one of the first humans ever in whom new techniques have achieved a long-sought goal — giving a patient’s own immune system the lasting ability to fight cancer.

She is among just a dozen patients with advanced leukemia to have received the experimental treatment, which was developed at the University of Pennsylvania. Similar approaches are also being tried at other centers, including the National Cancer Institute and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

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Quotes about family to get you through the Holidays

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” –George Bernard Shaw, Immaturity

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