Word: fashionization
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...Gold Coast. A stint behind the counter at Elizabeth Arden led to 25 years in the beauty business, culminating in a job working for Estée Lauder as regional sales and marketing director for Asia. A haphazard search for wide shoes led Wong to Ferragamo and eventually into fashion. Soon she was the brand's distributor for Hong Kong before moving to New York City to run Ferragamo's U.S. flagship stores. But sensing the potential of China, Wong moved back to Hong Kong in 1992 and became the founding shareholder in ImagineX. By 1994 she had opened the first...
...pure, but maybe it's not for everyone." Indeed, after 27 years in business designing her namesake collection of fine jewelry for Tiffany & Co., Paloma Picasso, 58, the daughter of Pablo Picasso, has finally seen her passion for bold, large-scale jewelry and colorful, rough-edged stones come into fashion. When she launched her collection in 1980, Picasso had only been dabbling in jewelry design, creating a line of costume jewelry for Bergdorf Goodman and incorporating jewelry into stage outfits she designed for avant-garde productions in Paris. It wasn't until her friend the designer Yves Saint Laurent asked...
...People are interested in glitz. Fashion's over. There are bags and shoes that are more and more ugly. That's all.' ?Hubert de Givenchy...
...three daughters, admits maybe it was just a stroke of luck. "We pushed, pushed, pushed, because for me it was an emergency," explains the French executive, speaking in fluent English. "We could have said, 'Let's wait a year and come back to accessories.' What I learned in fashion is you can't wait for tomorrow...
...house of Saint Laurent has no time to waste. It has been hemorrhaging cash for almost a decade, eroding its fashion credibility for perhaps longer and awaiting, if not salvation, the kind of high-end genius that was there at the creation of the Paris couturier in 1961 and that endured for four decades...