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...imagemaking isn't new to TIME. Henry Luce was well aware of his part in shaping some of the most powerful images of his era. And certainly the influence of fashion has played an important part in TIME's history: from Elsa Schiaparelli to Christian Dior to Giorgio Armani, this magazine has celebrated many great designers on its cover...
HONOLULU "Sunglasses are a perennial here. No matter what, everyone wants a pair," says a spokeswoman at the Emporio Armani boutique at Ala Moana Center. The hot look: the "shield," a mono-lens mask, above, that sells...
...design a bottle, fill it with juice, paper the planet with ads. But if you listen to Patricia Turck Paquelier, below, head of the Prestige and Collections International division of L'Oreal in Paris, tell it, creating a fragrance to match the carefully crafted images of designers like Giorgio Armani and Viktor & Rolf is no easy task. After all, designers make clothes for the select few, but a perfume has to appeal to the masses, not to mention the egos of the designers involved...
...years at Procter & Gamble and five at Yves Saint Laurent Parfums, she was chosen by L'Oreal to balance the needs of designers and of L'Oreal chairman and CEO Lindsay Owen-Jones. In Turck Paquelier's first six years at the company, she tripled L'Oreal's Armani business. By 2002, the brand was bringing in about $429 million a year in sales...
...from the hip." Krens also brought in consultants McKinsey to examine the foundation's business model. As if all that weren't enough, Krens is routinely assailed by New York critics for the quality of some of the Guggenheim's shows. The New York Times dismissed the Guggenheim's Armani show, an exhibition of outfits and sketches currently on tour in Berlin, as "a shortsighted exchange of cash for dignity." In Venice, Krens has another role, one about which he is ambivalent: caretaker of the Biennale's U.S. pavilion. The Guggenheim Foundation owns the building - all prissy porticoes, pedimented...