Word: aestheticizing
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Le Corbusier once famously said of the red-brick Faculty Club, “Tear it down.” While that may be an exaggeration, the truculent Swiss architect had a point: Harvard needs to stop letting its aesthetic sense be occluded by a puerile infatuation with the motifs...
GIORGIO ARMANI'S CLOTHES have represented refined luxury for an A-list clientele for more than 30 years. So in 2005, when the Italian designer finally introduced Armani Priv, his collection of women's haute couture, his female customers were elated. Now it's the men's turn. Giorgio Armani...
Robert Burke, who heads his own consulting business in New York City and was previously with Bergdorf Goodman, says a single salesperson there writes several million dollars' worth of orders for the label each season. Burke even mentions Albert Kriemler, whose name is still far from well known, within the...
Willie Williams never intended to change the way people watch rock concerts. Growing up in the late '70s, all he really wanted was to get out of Sheffield, England. "So I ran away to London to join the circus," says Williams, "and the circus at that time was punk rock...
More than anything, Schrager is a stylist, and he understands that the faade of any development, whether a hotel or a residence, has to jibe with pop culture to be commercially successful. Several years ago, he started to look around for a new idea, traveling everywhere from Istanbul to...