"Buying a perfume is buying an image," says Virginia Lee, a research analyst a Euromonitor.
It would have been more cost-effective to buy an image processor from whomever, but creating a custom one gave Apple an edge that paid off much larger dividends in the long run.
The details behind At Oddz Til I'm Even read like a way to organically build relationships with your peers that you respect rather than buying an image for a chance at stardom.
In 2002 it bought a mirror image of itself, Household, an American consumer-finance firm with $106 billion of loans and no deposits.
On Thursday, Vibrant Media, a digital advertising company, will announce that it has bought Image Space Media, an image advertising company.
You can also buy a stock image.
In 2012, when Rousteing approached his bosses about starting an Instagram feed, luxury labels were wary of social media; their clients, they believed, were buying into an image of formality, elegance, poise.
Last year amid the debate over Barack Obama's choice for a time to forgo the standard stars and stripes lapel pin, I bought a lapel pin with an image of the Gadsden flag.
On my way out, I buy a moving-image pen.
Now, with Doppelgänger Dogs, Inc., you can rent, lease, or buy a spitting-image surrogate animal that may be trotted out to the approving nods of all those who used to tsk-tsk at your overfed Fido.
