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ol she had used to kill her ex-husband, loaded it, green prom dresses and shot him in his sleep.Again, she chopped up his body, deep-froze the parts and eventually buried them under the icecream parlour, where they were found by chance during maintenance work last year.Carranza was extradited from Italy, two months pregnant by another man, to face charges in Austria.The trial is due to run until Thursday.Wieber attend New York and Toronto Fashion Weeks and buy new dresses off the runway.Just as a traditional retailer would do, they buy each dress in a particular size range, anything from a 0 to 24.We then do a photo shoot with the dresses being worn on every body type and on women in every age group and put it all online.for a period of four or eight days and come with a prepaid envelope, so that returning a dress is as simple as dropping it in a Canada Post mailbox.in exchange for a 20% equity stake.Bruce Croxon and Jim Treliving countered with a deal that would see the partners give up 50% equity.The money was earmarked for growth, sales and marketing.in the business, with about half going toward inventory and much of the rest to develop the website.We knew we had taken the company as far as we could financially.We weren’t so worried about what we would be giving up;After due diligence, the dragons opted out.Rent frock Repeat went on to win Canada Post’s e-commerce award for best small business multichannel retailer.At the awards gala, Ms.Wieber connected with venture capital and angel investors and are in the process of lining up funding.Croxon, who took the lead on the deal.They built a nice little business, were smart about it and understand the space.There is a precedent business in the U.called Own the Runway.The biggest challenge as we see it is logistics.There are a number of things that have to go right for this business to excel.The amount of inventory necessary to hold on to worried us.The fact there are a number of different sizes pink prom dresses and what it takes to get a dress to fit you exactly is going to be tough to scale.The more questions we asked, the smaller the market got.There is potential to have a good small business on the strength of the entrepreneurs but to be investable you need strong optimism that they can scale it and I didn’t get there.An expert’s opinion John Cho, partner with KPMG Enterprise, likens the model to that of the tuxedo rental market but with a significant difference: the lifecycle of the dresses.How many times can you rent a dress before it isn’t current any more or it loses its shape?What does the life cycle of the average piece look like?This speaks to the replacement spend necessary when you have to refresh inventory.If you have to replace inventory often, you will feel it from a cash perspective and that could limit profitability and growth.are missing and believed stolen from her former London home.The Amy Winehouse Foundation said Thursday the dress Winehouse wore for her 2006 Miami wedding to Blake Fielder-Civil and a newsprint cocktail dress she wore during a British TV appearance are both missing.The presumed theft was discovered during an inventory.The wedding dress was to have been auctioned off for the charity, established to help young people overcome addiction.sickening that someone would steal something in the knowledge of its sentimental value.Back to Black singer, died from alcohol poisoning on July 23, 2011, at the age of 27.put his three daughters and his first wife inside a Nissan Sentra and pushed it into the Rideau Canal.And he believed his first wife, Rona Amir, a bad influence on the girls.After reporting for Postmedia on the gripping trial, where a jury convicted Shafia, his son Hamed, and his second wife, Tooba Yahya, all of first-degree murder, veteran journalist Rob Tripp continued to investigate.His new book, Without Honour: The True Story of the Shafia Family and the Kingston Canal Murders reveals previously unreported details about life purple prom dresses inside the repressive and frightening Shafia household, and about the quadruple honour killing.In this first of three book excerpts that will run in the National Post, Mr.Tripp recounts the arranged marriage in Afghanistan between Shafia and the first wife he would come to despise, and eventually, murder.Eighteen-year-old Rona Amir and Mohammad Shafia were a picture-perfect bridal couple, the beautiful eldest daughter of a retired army colonel and the handsome Kabul businessman.Shafia, accomplished at age 25, smiled for snapshots with his porcelain bride on his arm.began a downward spiral.That day, in the crush of well-wishers and glare of flashbulbs that froze her mask of happiness, she did not see the turmoil ahead.Many people attended their elaborate wedding at the Intercontinental, the finest hotel in Kabul.The surroundings were posh, adorned with chandeliers and carpets in rich red tones.The teenaged bride wore a gauzy baby-blue dress.Two blue roses, fashioned from the fabric, protruded from the satiny waves of dark hair near her left ear.It was a refined beginning.Shafia’s mother, Shirin, had arranged the marriage two years earlier.She had found him this good girl when she attended the wedding of a distant relative, Noor.At the reception, Shirin noticed the bridegroom’s younger sister Rona.The slender sixteen-year-old had beautiful skin and a round face with delicate features.She was quiet and reserved, perhaps even timid.This girl was attractive, and she came from a reputable, middle-class family.Rona would surely make a good wife for Shafia and mother for his children.Shirin was careful to comply with the strict tradition of khwastgari, the ritual that dictated rules of betrothal.First she asked Rona’s family for the girl’s hand in marriage for her son, and then she visited Rona’s home several times to see the girl with her family.The visits did not diminish her first impression that Rona was a good mate for her son.Rona and her family were also invited to Shirin’s home, as custom required.The visits aff