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than 1,000 servicemen, Hawaii News Now reported. So, Stone took to Facebook and asked volunteers to help him in cleaning up the site  Louis Vuitton utahand dozens of service members, military spouses and children, showed up. "Even though it's not open," volunteer Kate Reynolds told the news outlet, "it can still look beautiful." Fitzgerald is one of the elite few made privy to this retail speakeasy. “I get a gorgeous engraved card, an invitation to the private sale, about two days before it’s happening,” she explains. The invitation contains Mission: Impossible–style instructions. For a short time, it notes, small dotted stickers (blue for 30 percent off, red for 40 percent) will appear on the soles of certain shoes; otherwise, but for a tiny tented “SALE” card in the window (a legal mandate), there will be no mark of markdowns.

 It’s the silver lining for longtime loyalists like Fitzgerald. Walk-ins from the street who inspect a shoe and spot the same dot will be told spiration comes from home. The garments she designs jingle with Louis Vuitton taiga  antique coins from the Shah's era, shine with ancient Turkmen buckles and move like the skirts of whirling dervishes. An image of Cyrus the Great adorns one of her first batik patterns. "If you look at these clothes, you see the geography of Iran," Badloo said, pointing to one of her Kurdish-inspired skirts. "Northern Iran is full of colors, and they use every single one in their designs. We are starting to change here in Tehran. We're going from the grays and browns to sharp colors. Happy colors."