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Gucci creative director TOM FORD and Gucci Group CEO DOMENICO DE SOLE are continuing their game of one-upmanship in their competition with luxury-goods rival LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton and its chief, Bernard Arnault. In their effort to diversify Gucci's fashion line and acquire designers with buzz, Ford and De Sole have already raided cutting-edge London designer Alexander McQueen from LVMH. Now the pair are set to announce that Chloe's STELLA MCCARTNEY (a media-garnering celebrity favorite and Paul's daughter) is launching her own label under Gucci; red-hot fashion star Nicolas Ghesquiere will...
...Tempo by Bebel Gilberto, daughter of bossa nova great Joao Gilberto; Max de Castro, son of bossa nova singer Wilson Simonal, also made a splash with his album Samba Raro. Now Moreno Veloso, son of Tropicalia genius Caetano Veloso, is raising his voice. Veloso's CD (made with bandmates Domenico and Kassin) is no mere echo of his father; his inventive songs have a quiet, vernal charm all their...
KIDS LOVE: The Triumph of Valor over Time by Gian Domenico Tiepolo. The painting is installed on the ceiling, and young visitors are urged to lie on their backs to look at it. They also like a coffin from Ghana, shaped like a Mercedes-Benz, for "going out in style...
...Sydney, Italy won its first Olympic gold medal in the pool - and tripled the stash by the end of the week. While Domenico Fioravanti won the breaststroke double, it was his compatriot Massimiliano Rosolino who will stay in the memory of swimming fans. Following a silver medal in the 400-m freestyle behind Thorpe and bronze behind the freakish duo in the 200-m freestyle, the 22-year-old Neapolitan stormed past American Tom Dolan to take gold in the 200-m individual medley. The crowd roared in rapture. The likable Italian, who lived in Australia as a child, danced...
...When Arnault launched a takeover of Gucci last year, quietly acquiring more than 20% of its outstanding shares--which he still holds--and then making an $8.7 billion bid for the whole firm, Gucci struck back by emulating the very business that was trying to acquire it. Gucci CEO Domenico De Sole and creative director Tom Ford started purchasing premium fashion brands in a bid to become a luxury superpower to rival LVMH...