H&M/Roberto Cavalli: They Hate Us

Snubbed again, dammit! I just called the H&M store at the
Mall of America to double-check, but it looks like the retailer has decided to
skip Minneapolis (yet again) when it launches its massclusive line of Roberto
Cavalli for H&M next week. Not that the line is covetable in the first
place. (I mean, leopard prints on the cheap? Puhleeze.) But here’s what goads me: Minneapolitans
might not have invented massclusivity, but we certainly popularized the notion
of affordable design (our very own Target Corporation did, in any case). Don’t we at least deserve to see and touch the clothes? Alas, if a Twin Citian finds
herself dying for a leopard print satin camisole with black, lacy trim, she’ll
just have to trek to

H&M on Michigan
Avenue

. Of course, the clothes will be on eBay by
November 9 (where Lagerfeld and Stella McCartney’s lines for H&M are still everpresent).