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This season there were new players at both Gucci and Jil Sander. In her second season at Gucci, creative director Frida Giannini embraced Ford's sexy legacy with a collection inspired by David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust period, featuring flared pantsuits, slinky jersey minidresses and platform heels. Pitted against the quiet, strong simplicity of Jil Sander, where Belgian menswear designer Raf Simons presented his first collection for women, Gucci might have seemed too vulgar. But as Ann Stordahl, executive vice president of upscale retailer Neiman Marcus, pointed out, "the winds of fashion are changing quickly...
Indeed they are. No sooner had Simons shown a winning combination of severe, boxy jackets over skinny pants and crisp white shirts, heralding a kind of cleansing of the fashion palette--dominated for so long by embellishment and color--than Giannini made an over-the-top '80s play. It may not be a look for everyone, but the kitschy '80s miniskirts and slinky jersey gowns seem to appeal to the Gucci customer. Gucci Group president Robert Polet, upbeat before the show, said that the house's current success is a result of the group's post--Tom Ford strategy, laid...
...More recently, in the late '90s, Tom Ford played Gucci against the more artsy Prada label with the kind of slick vulgarity that made him a fashion champion. This season there were new players at both Gucci and Jil Sander. In her second season at Gucci, creative director Frida Giannini embraced Ford's sexy legacy with a collection inspired by David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust period - featuring flared pantsuits, slinky jersey minidresses and platform heels. Pitted against the quiet, strong simplicity of Jil Sander, where Belgian menswear designer Raf Simons presented his first collection for women, Gucci might have seemed...
...instantly recognizable, singular vision. The duo, along with other big names such as Armani and Versace, have long dominated the business, but the spring-summer 2006 collections also showcased new talent that has managed to grow in their deep shadow. All eyes last week were on newcomers like Frida Giannini, 33, who presented her first full collection at Gucci after being promoted in March from accessories designer to creative director of women's wear, and Christopher Bailey, who had one of his best Burberry collections since teaming up with ceo Rose Marie Bravo in 2001 to inject new life into...
...charge of North American operations before moving to First Interstate in 1976. He was promoted to chairman of First Interstate's bank holding company in 1978. Pinola is well aware that from 1927 to 1956 his bank was part of the Bank of America empire founded by A.P. Giannini and eventually was spun off as an independent after Congress passed a law that mandated the divestiture. Pinola's dream is to rejoin his twelve-state regional firm with BankAmerica's single-state, 895-branch sprawl to become what one First Interstate executive calls the "premier retail bank in America." Pinola...