Word: fendi
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...stone-cold sexiness. Gucci's image, not to mention its stock price, soared. But in late 2004, Ford left the company abruptly after clashing with management. The Gucci Group hired three designers to replace him; two seasons later, the then 33-year-old Giannini?who had been plucked from Fendi by Ford in 2002?was the only one left standing...
...double revenues through 2011. True, she was young, female and European and therefore uniquely in touch with her target customer. But Gucci's execs also knew that Giannini was a genius with handbags?fashion's red-hot commodity. She was, after all, one of the designers who helped create Fendi's blockbuster baguette, the tiny bag that ignited the accessories frenzy that continues to drive luxury's bottom line...
Even if the strike is settled and the show is broadcast--even if Clooney and Jolie are there and Steven Spielberg's lifetime-achievement award is presented by J.D. Salinger and Thomas Pynchon in Fendi gowns--there's another reason that viewership may be slack for the Globes, and also for the Academy Awards six weeks later: because the prizes will go to films that relatively few people have seen...
...need look no further than the luxury empire that is Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy. The French holding company encompasses such icons as Donna Karan, Fendi, and Givenchy, in addition to Louis Vuitton itself. Brands and other intangibles, as might be suspected, play a staggering role in their financial holdings, accounting for 8.2 billion euros, or 29 percent of total assets. And these billions of dollars of ad campaigning—those mile-long legs of Fendi’s Raquel Zimmermann from the summer billboards —are working. Last year, Louis Vuitton recorded 11 percent revenue growth...
...success is to keep this artisanal production but to organize it so well that you can increase the capacity. [The Fendi factory in Rome] has almost no machines. It is all handmade but it can be increased with the same level of craftsmanship, which is good for employment. This is also what I say to politicians in France, where we have some factories doing other brands [including Louis Vuitton]. Many of them are against globalization, but what we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France...