Word: coco
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...Bright Moves Forget about basic black this season. This page: Stella McCartney pump, $575 holtrenfrew.com) Chanel Coco's Croco 2.55 satin with gold metal handbag, $2,250 jeffreynewyork.com) Opposite page: Chloé patent-leather Bay bag, $2,365 chloe.com) Styled by Thom Driver for Halley Resources...
...business that caters predominantly to women, it still seems somehow paradoxical that so many men remain in charge. And yet if you take a closer look at the true pioneers of global luxury, going right back to Coco Chanel, above, it's clear that when a fundamental shift occurs in the industry, it is often the work of a powerful and creative woman. The entrepreneurs, CEOs and designers (there's even a muse) presented on the following pages are most often defined by their determination and fearlessness?from the CEO who is reinventing and reviving the YSL brand...
...along with quality, that luxury consumers desire universally?who doesn't covet that one-of-a-kind object, whether it be an Hermès handbag, a Breguet watch or even a multimillion-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...
Jimmy Jimmy Coco, spray tanner...
...famous fabric houses: Ratti, Bucol, Gandini, Clerici, Guigou, Mantero and, of course, Abraham, the Swiss fabric house owned by Gustav Zumsteg, the late, great textile designer who invented the stiffly finished silk gazar that gave shape to Balenciaga's gowns and who also collaborated with Saint Laurent, Coco Chanel and Hubert de Givenchy...