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...that most people don’t make the connection; whereas higher gas prices would lower demand and increase support for alternative energies and more fuel-efficient vehicles, increasing government subsidies does neither. It’s no accident that no major American car company marketed a hybrid until Ford introduced one this summer...
...position on Medicare with "There you go again" that many Americans began to get comfortable with the idea of Reagan in the Oval Office. But more often, what voters take away from the debates is confirmation of their misgivings about a candidate: Richard Nixon's inner darkness, Gerald Ford's cluelessness, George H.W. Bush's aloofness, Gore's changeability...
...waiting for the Gucci show to get started. As waiters served martinis under a huge orchid-covered chandelier and the honchos from Gucci owner Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, including CEO Serge Weinberg and new Gucci Group CEO Robert Polet, mingled in the crowd, the chatter was all about how Tom Ford's replacement, onetime Gucci design director Alessandra Facchinetti, would fill her former boss's big shoes. As it happens, Facchinetti had also been bitten by the travel bug, offering Indian-inspired sari dresses and fringe-embroidered skirts. She didn't rock the boat, choosing instead to stick to Ford...
...Stuck In Reverse Gear British luxury carmaker Jaguar called a halt to production at its historic Coventry plant, axing hundreds of jobs. The Ford-owned marque also said it would quit Formula One racing at the end of the current season...
Ever wonder what was in Tom Ford's first collection for Gucci or where the idea for Donna Karan's signature bodysuit came from? Now is the perfect time to bone up on your fashion history. This fall Assouline is publishing a trio of designer biographies--The Journey of a Woman: 20 Years of Donna Karan (228 pages), Carolina Herrera (208 pages) and Marc Jacobs (80 pages). On the heels of Ford's final catwalk bow comes Tom Ford (Rizzoli; 384 pages), which catalogs the meticulous designer's decade of work for Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. And when...