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...illustration of Paloma Picasso as a child in 1955, done by her mother Fran??oise Gilot...
INSIDE TRACK WENT TO BUSINESS SCHOOL WITH PPR CHAIRMAN FRAN??OIS-HENRI PINAULT...
...chairman Fran??ois-Henri Pinault, who was a classmate of Hermann's in business school, insists she personifies the brand. He snatched her away from PPR rival LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, where she was running ready-to-wear at Dior, as much for her winning record as for her provenance. "Not only does Valerie have all the professional skills," Pinault says, "but she is the YSL woman. She is French, and YSL is the most French of brands. And being an active woman and by her feminine instincts, she will have ideas come...
...Fran??ois Bertrand, head sommelier at the elegant French restaurant Le Gavroche in London, jokes that he agreed to stock 1796 aged rum two years ago because of "the beautiful young Venezuelan marketing rep." But after tasting it, he decided to fool some of his patrons and pour them the rum instead of Cognac. "The cheap nightclub image of rum that had always put them off was changed immediately," says Bertrand...
...little more than a decade ago, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President Fran??§ois Mitterand officially opened a similar experiment: The Chunnel, the underwater tunnel to connect England and France. The conclusions, however, speak to the failure of the results to satisfy the hypotheses. Eurotunnel, the group which manages and operates the tunnel predicted high passenger and freight traffic. Instead, low volumes of both passenger and freight traffic is trapping the company in quicksand—which Spain and Morocco did not heed as a cautionary tale...