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...Next Donna, Calvin and Ralph? Celebrities are fashion's new powerhouse designers...
...lost its style. It didn't have any edge," says Laird, who broke into the art-directing business working for Peter Arnell and then Donna Karan. Customers were fleeing too. In the 27 months before Laird's arrival, the Gap had suffered consecutive same-store sales declines and had alienated core customers with products that were deemed too trendy. Laird's big idea was to bring the advertising back to its roots, taking the images out of the studio and putting them into everyday life. Already Gap's same-store sales for the four-week period ending Aug. 2 were...
...with so much influence--Donna Karan and Nautica are still clients--Laird is remarkably humble. A native of Nacogdoches, Texas, he studied architecture in college but ended up with a degree in marketing. After following a girlfriend to New York City, Laird found a job selling shoes at Bergdorf Goodman, where he met adman Arnell. And, well, you know the story: resume, junior-account-executive job. Now Madonna and Missy. What next? "We're only just beginning," Laird says. "We have so much more work to do." --By Kate Betts
...designers were the celebrities of the '90s, then celebrities are the designers of the new millennium. They make or break looks on the red carpet. They set trends in concerts and in their videos. And though they may not yet be crowned the next Calvin, Donna and Ralph, in a tough economy, with fashion Balkanizing and luxury companies like the Gucci Group showing profits down 97% in the first quarter, celebrities are poised to give the design industry's leaders a run for their money...
...excitement factor alone could be enough to make minority Democrats take a look at the brusque New Englander. Dean shows no sign of peaking too early, says Donna Brazile, who was Al Gore's 2000 campaign manager and is one of her party's more effective minority organizers. "He's all that and a stick of gum. He's that hot. The flavor has not left him." She mentions a conversation with a prominent bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest African-American denomination. "I've seen all these cats, but I like Dean," the bishop told Brazile...