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...plant manager: ever since he reined in John Galliano in 1998, sales have tripled and, at $825.7 million in 2005, are edging toward the $1 billion mark. Of course, back in 1997 containing and ultimately commercializing Galliano was a long shot considering the designer's past. As fashion's brilliant wild man known for exceptional creativity and pitiful financial results, he had seen backers pull the plug and had been penniless twice...
Competing for our attention, on the table is a giant, 33-lb. version of the company's new star product, the Xilion, which in its oversize form suggests a fortune teller's ball. The commercial version is pea size, perfect for necklaces and dangling earrings. True, it's brilliant, throwing off hundreds of sparkles?but unique? Exactly how unique can a rhinestone...
...that's the most important; it's the angle of the facets," says Buchbauer, pointing out a pattern in which sizes and shapes alternate. "Several years back, we looked around the marketplace and saw our competitors getting stronger and advancing technically. There was market demand for a new, more brilliant stone. We had always claimed to be the innovation leader, so we knew it was time to bring out the next generation...
...like that, something relatively new to the fashion business, is what draws investors in. "That's probably the No. 1 criterion for any private-equity investment," says Philippe Franchet, a partner at L Capital, explaining why they invested in the low-profile Piazza Sempione brand. "The management team is brilliant." Translation: it has a manager with a good production record and a solid business plan. When Enrico Morra, managing director of Piazza Sempione, and the company's founders met with L Capital's partners, they outlined exactly what they wanted to do, including opening more stand-alone stores and expanding...
...fallen? Look at Vanity Fair's Annie Leibovitz cover photo. Cruise holds Suri, nestled inside his bomber jacket; Katie Holmes peers at--but doesn't touch--her baby. It is a brilliant, sly metacomment on the whispers about Cruise: Is he too controlling? What creepy power does he have over his wife? What is he hiding? It is the sort of thing that, one suspects, a more powerful Cruise would have vetoed and that the media would have been scared to death to pull...