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Toledano has been very successful as Dior's head plant manager: ever since he reined in John Galliano in 1998, sales have tripled and, at $825.7 million in 2005, are edging toward the $1 billion mark. Of course, back in 1997 containing and ultimately commercializing Galliano was a long shot considering the designer's past. As fashion's brilliant wild man known for exceptional creativity and pitiful financial results, he had seen backers pull the plug and had been penniless twice...
Today marriages of business and talent tend to be arranged and can be brokered in a boardroom and followed by a blind date. Sidney Toledano first scouted out Galliano in a rundown studio in a rough part of Paris. Toledano was so impressed, he requested an invitation to sit in the back row, unobserved, at Galliano's next show. It was arranged that Toledano would first meet Dior menswear designer Hedi Slimane in a café (they talked for four hours...
...magazine is commemorating its quarter-century with i-Dentity, a touring exhibition that charts its progress from parochial house journal of London's punk movement to a global fashion title featuring such figures as Madonna, Kate Moss and Kylie Minogue, and designers including the likes of Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. In the process, the retrospective also manages to showcase two and a half decades of popular culture's cutting edge...
...magazine is commemorating its quarter-century with i-Dentity, a touring exhibition that charts its progress from parochial house journal of London's punk movement to a global fashion title featuring such figures as Madonna, Kate Moss and Kylie Minogue, and designers including the likes of Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. In the process, the retrospective also manages to showcase two and a half decades of popular culture's cutting edge. The exhibition will be at Beijing's Long March Space gallery from May 20-31, before traveling to Paris and other cities in the fall. Aside from...
...Dress Dolce & Gabbana embroidered lace dress, $5,950 (dolcegabbana.it); James Robinson diamond pendant and bracelet; Bing Bang gold necklace and bangles. Opposite page: Dior by John Galliano organza dress, $21,620 (800-929-DIOR); In God We Trust gold necklace