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...Gucci in London and YSL Rive Gauche in Paris), plus their cash cows, the accessories, shuttling between the two ateliers on the Eurostar. He also oversees the design of new stores and the ad campaigns for all the group's beauty and fashion labels, which include YSL Beaute, Bottega Veneta, Boucheron and Sergio Rossi. There is no part of the fashion business he finds dull. "For me fashion doesn't stop at clothes," says Ford. "Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look--all those things go together to make a moment...
...fogeys aren't going away. LVMH recently bought Pucci; the Gucci group is revamping Bottega Veneta; and no less venerable a jeweler than Asprey & Garrard has hired Jade Jagger (yep, Mick's daughter) and her partner as designers...
...fogeys aren't going away. LVMH recently bought Pucci; the Gucci group is revamping Bottega Veneta; and no less venerable a jeweler than Asprey & Garrard has hired Jade Jagger (yep, Mick's daughter) and her partner as designers...
...Bottega Veneta "The 1970s was the last time we saw logomania," says Tom Ford. "It was all about Gucci and Louis Vuitton and initials, initials, initials, and Gloria Vanderbilt jeans." Into this frenzied atmosphere Italian leather company Bottega Veneta was launched. Its smash hit was a bag of woven leather - a look inspired by woven baskets. There was no logo and the ads said it all: "When your own initials are enough." The first boutique opened in 1974 on Manhattan's Upper East Side. In 1980 when Lauren Hutton starred as a rich New York housewife in American Gigolo...
...Giotto di Bondone, born around 1267 to peasants in the bucolic valleys outside Florence. Legend says the country boy tending his flocks was discovered by the painter Cimabue, who saw him draw a fine sheep upon a rock. A more likely tale has him haunting Cimabue's Florentine bottega until the painter made him an apprentice. There Giotto absorbed his mentor's strength of drawing and sense of drama, but nature was his true teacher. He divined how to depict, with brush and pigment, the human body according to the prescription of St. Francis: "Your God is of your flesh...