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...community heads off to party at “Homo Hill” in Itaewon, the international district. And wasted government officials delay their trips to “massage parlors” to accost groups of Americans and buy them rounds of whiskey bombs. (Thanks, Mr. Choo...
DEFINITION vur-choo-uhl koh-luh-nos-kuh-pee n. A minimally invasive procedure that uses X-rays and computer graphics to make 2-D and 3-D images of the inside of a patient's colon...
Sitting in her office in South Kensington, London, Mellon bristles as she recalls comments suggesting that she sit back and enjoy her wealth. "It's the absolute opposite. I'm very committed. Jimmy Choo is my baby. There's significant upside left in this business, and it would be far too soon to walk away from such an exciting challenge," she says. That upside includes a deal with Selective Beauty to roll out a Jimmy Choo fragrance. "And we've got over 60 shops and could easily double that," she adds, stretching out her spectacular legs, tipped with mules four...
...realized that all her favorite dresses were vintage Halston, she phoned her friend the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, and they became investors in the Halston company, along with private-equity firm Hilco Consumer Capital, the majority shareholder. Although Mellon has promoted TV and movie product placement for Jimmy Choo with considerable enthusiasm, there's a chance to go further with Halston: she hopes Weinstein will supply the biopic. "A movie turns a brand into a household name. Fashion magazines reach a million, but this is how you reach 100 million," Mellon says...
...dollar Damien Hirst skull? But luxury is also about layering comfort into our turbocharged daily lives. As Coco Chanel once said, "Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it's not luxury." Nobody knows this better than the handful of dynamic women who drive the global luxury-goods business?from Jimmy Choo president Tamara Mellon, who built a $379 million business on the hunch that lots of other women would want what she wanted, to YSL CEO Valerie Hermann, who is relying on her own feminine instincts to reinvigorate the famous French brand...