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...bother Diego Della Valle, 52. As the president and CEO of Tod's S.p.A., he's used to climbing into his silver twin-engine Dolphin helicopter after lunch at Villa Brancadoro?his 17th century hilltop residence in the town of Casette d'Ete, where he lives with his wife Barbara Pistilli and their son Filippo, 8?and zipping over to Ancona, where he usually boards his Falcon 2000 and jets off to Paris or New York City or maybe even Tokyo...
...looking forward to his summer vacation in his new Capri house, which Barbara designed. There he will take walks, eat a simple plate of pasta and go for a ride on the Candida, his 40-m J-class yacht. "People think I'm provincial because I don't go to Capri to go out. I want to enjoy my family," he says. It's enjoyment, as in "Dignity, duty and enjoyment...
...heart of the Tod's empire (which also includes 103 stores around the world) is the $60 million Richard Meier--esque white marble factory designed by Diego's wife Barbara and filled with art by Jacob Hashimoto, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol and Frank Stella. One wing is dominated by a Ron Arad silver staircase called The Wave. Inside, 2,500 workers?50% of whom are second-generation employees?turn out an average of 15,000 shoes a day. Their kids go to nursery school on the premises, and the workers eat freshly cooked meals in the cafeteria...
...their own research. She questions the merits of the national quality assurance scheme, and is horrified that its inspections are pre-arranged. "Without spot checks," she says, "it isn't a quality assurance system at all. I can't see any reason why we don't have (random inspections)." Barbara Romeril, executive director of Victoria's Community Child Care Association, agrees that both private and community child-care centers would benefit from unannounced visits. Some of the stories insiders tell her would make parents shudder, she says: she's heard more than once of centers ferrying in new equipment...
...going to want to come out and beat us, so as long as we’re able to keep that focus and determination to take each match one at a time we’ll be fine,” Mukundan said. —Staff writer Barbara R. Barreno can be reached at barreno@fas.harvard.edu...