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MOSCOW Hedi Slimane's destroyed-denim jeans for Dior Homme ($750), left, is selling out at the Dior store. A representative says this edgy look, new to Moscow, is popular with the fashion-forward crowd...
...fashion apprenticeship over the past three years. After graduating from the London School of Economics, she worked for two years at McKinsey in Paris before joining LVMH in 2000. She learned the business with John Galliano, working on product development and marketing for his label and then switching to Dior. Now Delphine heads Dior's women's shoe division, one of the company's fastest-growing sectors. "She's got a very good sense of product, a very good eye," says Sidney Toledano, chief executive of Dior Couture, who says Delphine is treated the same as anyone else...
...Dior job takes Delphine out on the road frequently, checking in with Dior factories, ensuring that retailers are giving suitable prominence to her merchandise and trying to gauge the public's reaction to new products. People at the company who know her say she can be shy on first contact but that she's a careful observer who appears to have inherited her father's determination to get the job done...
...fact, thanks to a headhunter that Saint Pierre veered into the business of matchmaking. After a six-year stint in finance at Christian Dior, she was plucked to help build the fashion practice of an executive-search firm. She stayed three months before starting her own Paris-based company in 1990, at the age of 26. Fashion's swiftly revolving door is showing no signs of slowing down, and neither is Saint Pierre. French luxury powerhouses like Christian Dior and Givenchy have had to develop succession plans as their designers have retired. Iconic Italian houses will probably be next, says...
Parker and Field quickly claimed an inky black taffeta Versace gown for their show's adieu episode. But that still leaves a gold Dior number for any soul brave enough to face Joan Rivers in it. According to Galliano, gold is the new black, but he forgot to mention that it matches the Oscar...