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...Shoah fills us Germans with shame. I bow before the victims. I bow before the survivors and before all those who helped them survive.' ANGELA MERKEL, German Chancellor, using the Hebrew word for Holocaust in the third speech ever delivered in German to the Israeli parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...passionate about stones," says German-born Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele, co-president and design director of Chopard, the Geneva-based fine-jewelry brand. "Real rocks," she insists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All in the Family | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

CLEARLY THAT PROBLEM is in the past. The womenswear under the Boss Black label being shown tonight, designed by Ingo Wilts, a German who has been promoted through the ranks, is sleek and sexy. Boss Orange, designed by Andrea Cannelloni, an Italian who has been with the company in Germany since 1998, is more casual. Tonight's finale showcases the Hugo label, the brand's most avant-garde offering, and marks the debut of Belgian designer Bruno Pieters, the first major creative appointment Boss has made outside the company since the Milan fiasco. Pieters' collection of compass-cut coats, jackets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Boss | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...succession. While the company name dates back to the 1920s, the foundations for today's business were put in place at the end of the '60s, when brothers Uwe and Jochen Holy started to manufacture menswear under their grandfather's name. By 1985, Hugo Boss was listed on the German stock exchange, and today it is part of V.F.G. International N.V. (Valentino Fashion Group S.p.A., named for Valentino Garavani), which is majority-controlled by private-equity firm Permira...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Boss | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...began his day playing on the company soccer team says it is time to leave. Despite the festivities taking place around him, Sälzer knows the caricature of a German is one of boring efficiency, "so we have to both exceed the cliché and be even more creative. We do much more than anyone else to excite our own people so they take [that energy back] to Mexico or Sydney or wherever they go," he beams. After all, he points out, every man has a suit, a shirt, a tie. Any company can have a show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Boss | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

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