Sheep's clothing dept.: babes in Burberry.(The Talk of the Town)(party to launch new products)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 15-APR-02

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Burberry's West Fifty-seventh Street store gave a supremely planned party for a bunch of preschoolers and their mothers last week, to launch a new line of toiletries for children called Burberry Baby Touch. On the second floor, several long, low tables had been set with tablecloths, paper plates, and napkins, in the Baby Touch colors of baby blue, apple green, ivory, and lilac. These were piled with platters of large sugar cookies in the shape of lambs, dishes of ice cream, and little mountains of decorative sweets -- lilac and blue sprinkles, mini marshmallow dots, raisins, miniature M&M's, Gummy Bears, and cans of Reddi Wip.

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