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CLAIM TO FAME GUIDING JOHN GALLIANO THROUGH TOUGH TIMES...
Friends insist Hermann has become more glamorous in her more public role as CEO, converting from washed-out working mom to sophisticated executive?without going overboard. "Valerie, plain pumps, is now Valerie, stilettos," says Camilla Morton, a writer who works closely with Dior designer John Galliano...
...promotion has not altered Hermann's strength of character, Morton notes, describing her at Galliano's side in April after his closest collaborator, Stephen Robinson, died suddenly. "She was a rock," Morton says. "But that's Valerie. She is human as much as assertive, a good soul as much as a number cruncher...
That focus landed Hermann at the house of eccentric wunderkind Galliano in 1996 and eventually at Dior. "We were le carpe and le lapin," she says, laughing at the French image of the classic odd couple, the fish and the rabbit. "He was the British boy, and I was the French bourgeois girl. But we respected the same values...
...hope I've rescued women from wearing a naff dirndl skirt and corset at night.' ?John Galliano on his 10th anniversary at Christian Dior