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...Diamonds may be forever, but the cost of diamond jewelry made by many brand-name designers can put the pieces forever out of reach. Items in Chanel's fine jewelry range usually come with six-figure price tags, while Dior's Provocante white gold-and-diamond necklace sells for around $70,000. Now Vivienne Westwood, the British pioneer of punk fashion, is designing a line of "affordable" jewelry called Hardcore Diamonds, her first rock collection. The pieces, available in Westwood stores from July, are for the mass market. The characteristically unconventional collection includes white gold-and-diamond safety pins...
Though many of Lauder's 23 brands are celebrity and designer lines, no outsider has shared real estate with the Lauder name in the label's 59-year history. Still, William Lauder denies that the family is divided about the Ford alliance. Indeed, he says, Leonard Lauder himself set the wheels of the deal in motion after De Sole approached him last summer in Aspen, Colo., where the two own homes. But the quidnuncs were half right. John Demsey, who ran the M.A.C. business before becoming global president of the Lauder brand in January, admits that he and Aerin Lauder...
...coping with a post-9/11 slowdown and an oversupply of grapes, the global wine market is regaining the tremendous growth it enjoyed in the '90s, and one leading reason is Gallo. The world's second largest wine company, with estimated sales of $3 billion (after publicly held Constellation Brands, whose series of acquisitions brought sales to $4.1 billion), family-run Gallo has the industry's top research and marketing staff and has become legendary for seizing on consumer trends--whether they were jug wines in the '70s, Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers in the '80s or development of new premium...
Most people who buy Black Swan or Red Bicyclette probably don't realize they are drinking a Gallo wine. The Gallo brand appears nowhere on the labels. But Gallo's partnerships with international wineries--in Italy, Australia, New Zealand and France--account for an estimated 10 million cases of the company's sales. (That's still a puddle compared with the ocean of California wine Gallo produces every year--65 million cases in 2004, or half of all grapes grown in California.) Gallo formed its first partnership 10 years ago when executives saw how Americans who had been guzzling Chardonnay...
...hours. They played tunes from Songs’ “Magnolia Electric Co.” as well as from “Trials and Errors,” their own sloppy, excessively-jam-oriented-but-lovable debut live album. Finally, they introduced a few “brand spankin’ new ones” as Molina declared, some of which were culled from their just-released studio album, “What Comes After the Blues...