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This week, we travel from Mary Street to Milan and from high street fashion to luxury brands as the Penneys' buying team is on a mission to find inspiration in Italy.
Wild West explores this fascinating area of North America – the canyons, the high country and the shores.
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Description: Picture Shows: Sourced image (222290599) - Cowboys rounding up wild desert mustangs. These free-roaming horses are originally descended from horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish but many other breeds and types of horses have subsequently contributed to the modern mustang. The name mustang comes from the 16th-century Mexican Spanish word mestengo, defined as "animal that strays".
Description: Picture Shows: The high deserts of Nevada are home to the largest mustang (Equus ferus caballus) population in America, and stallions are always competing for dominance.
Description: Picture Shows: Sourced image (111755141) - Monument Valley in Utah and Arizona, USA is a collection of vast sandstone buttes rising up to 1,000 ft (300m) above the surroundingn desert.
Description: Picture Shows: Sourced image (214436524) - Sagauaro cacti (Carnegiea gigantea) are the largest cacti in the United States, standing up to 50 feet tall, and may live for 200 years. They collect water with a network of roots that lie about 3 inches below the surface and stretch as far as the cactus is tall. In a single rainfall they may soak up as much as 200 gallons of water, enough to last a year.
Description: Picture Shows: Sourced image (EBKHWD) - Gila woodpeckers (Melanerpes uropygialis) drill nest holes in the truncks and larger branches of the Saguaro cactus, Sonoran desert, Arizona, USA.
Description: Picture Shows: Sourced image (E1TROW) - Gila monsters (Heloderma suspectum) are the largest living native reptiles in North America, growing up to 2 feet long and weighing over 2kgs. They primarily feed on the eggs of birds and reptiles.
Description: Picture Shows: Sourced image CXKJ73 - Regal Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma solare) live in the deserts of SW USA and northern Mexico. Harvester ants are a favourite food which they catch by catapulting them to the back of their throats and engulfing in mucus.
Description: Picture Shows: Coyotes (Canis latrans) manage to survive even in the scorching hot Death Valley in California at temperatures of up to 115F, feeding on a varity of insects including beetles and hawkmoth caterpillars. Sourced image (CFFDR3)
Description: Picture Shows: Sunrise over the Grand Canyon at the North Rim's Toroweap / Tuweep viewpoint, 3000 vertical feet (880m) above the Colorado river in Arizona, USA (Sourced image 01410475)
Description: Picture Shows: During times of plenty some honey-pot worker ants (Myrmecocystus spp) become living larders, storing processed nectar in their swollen abdomens. This is then used to sustain the rest of the colony when times are tough and food is in short supply. (Sourced image AOWP5H)