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...which he started his career. Having grown up in the Isle of Wight, he graduated from the University of Hull in North Yorkshire, England, and started writing plays that won him a few awards, before going on to become a TV script editor and writer. After his feature debut, the 1990 comedy Truly, Madly, Deeply, starring Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson, there was the low-key comedy Mr. Wonderful with Matt Dillon and Mary-Louise Parker. Then came The English Patient, which won nine Oscars, including Best Director and Best Picture - and suddenly people started paying attention. "He directed most...
Which is not to say that the decisions he has to make are always easy. In 2000 Hugo Boss had made a disastrous debut in the womenswear market that cost the company $75.8 million, or 38% of sales, over four years. The division was based in Milan, where, as Sälzer puts it, "the team had, collectively, thousands of years of experience. Yet the crazy thing was, there were big mistakes in all areas. The organization didn't work, and not because we don't know Milan. The problem was, the spirit didn't come over." Once in charge...
...been promoted through the ranks, is sleek and sexy. Boss Orange, designed by Andrea Cannelloni, an Italian who has been with the company in Germany since 1998, is more casual. Tonight's finale showcases the Hugo label, the brand's most avant-garde offering, and marks the debut of Belgian designer Bruno Pieters, the first major creative appointment Boss has made outside the company since the Milan fiasco. Pieters' collection of compass-cut coats, jackets and tunics wows this audience, which rises to give a standing ovation...
...Games have often been symbolic wars dressed in short pants. Beijing views this summer as its superpower debut, and the central government won't let separatists or free-thinking dissidents undermine its lockstep message. "At the highest levels," says China analyst Russell Leigh Moses, "showing some teeth is much more viable than marching off into the unknown of reform...
...come from Britain, Germany, India and the U.S.) and also conducts wider market research to decide exactly which prominent people, living or dead, should be immortalized in a kind of tallow known as "Japan wax". Popularity among the patrons was what won Bollywood star Salman Khan his Tussaud's debut in January. But a dip in popularity can see figures hustled off into storage to make way for fresh exhibits. Still, there's always the possibility of rehabilitation: The chunky singer Gary Barlow was dusted down and reinstalled in the Music Zone after his 1990s boy-band Take That reunited...