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Swarovski claims to offer the highest quality on the market and the most extensive range of sizes and colors?15,000 in its catalog. In July, Bruno Frisoni launched a couture shoe-and-bag collection for Roger Vivier starring clusters of colored Swarovski crystals. The same week, Dior, Chanel and Jean Paul Gaultier all sent gowns embroidered with Swarovski crystals down their runways...
...business growing at approximately 7% a year, according to the Telsey Advisory Group (TAG), an independent research firm based in Manhattan, has been populated by a handful of familiar faces: Bernard Arnault of LVMH, François-Henri Pinault of PPR and the odd manager of Gucci or president of Chanel. But cash-rich private-equity firms have taken note of the impressive numbers those companies are posting. Gross profit margins for apparel are 50%, and for leather goods they can be as high as 77%, according to TAG. So it's not surprising that in the past two years dealmaking...
...moment when trendsetters complain that ultraformatted luxury brands like Dior, Chanel and Gucci are becoming too predictable, Diesel, with its quirky stores and advertising and its outsider chief, is suddenly at center stage, a success story few would have predicted...
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN'S REFRAIN of "Let's get physical," along with the ubiquity of Lycra, started it in the 1980s. Aerobics helped push it into the '90s, and yoga certainly added an aura to the category in the new millennium. Chanel, Prada, Dior and Hugo Boss all capitalized on it a few seasons ago. Activewear has come a long way from the gym and, thanks to relaxed dress codes inaugurated by casual Fridays, it has become a uniform for more and more Americans. But it's not about cotton T shirts and sweats anymore. Today activewear can mean everything...
...just about owning the latest Pixar movie or Star Wars reissue. The DVD format has created a connoisseur class that values taste in title selection, pristine print quality, peerless extras and lavish production. For those collectors, the Chanel of DVD outfits is Criterion, spawned by the pre-eminent '50s art-house distributor Janus Films. From the 350 titles issued thus far in the Criterion Collection, here's a sampling of its classy wares...