Word: gucci
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...superpower's force reflected in high production values and heavy funding for an American artist whose work is internationally known. This year's display is no different, with backing of about $1 million from government and private sources, including a $100,000 grant from the glitzy fashion house Gucci (and the requisite glamour of Gucci's creative director, Tom Ford, posing on several occasions with Hamilton as his bodyguards stood stonily by). These are the trappings of America's high-end art culture at the end of the century: spectacle is required. You go to the U.S. pavilion expecting...
...take over Telecom Italia, a telephone behemoth seven times its size. A cozy merger between Societe Generale and Paribas, two of France's leading banks, is thrown into disarray when a rival Paris financial house proposes to swallow them both. A battle for control of Italian fashion giant Gucci turns venomous when a French billionaire proclaims that he has snatched the company from the clutches of a rival French raider...
CHER is proof that nothing in American culture ages as well as icons and punch lines. Currently her single Believe is No. 2 on the Billboard charts and "Cher hair"--ironed flat, middle parted--crowns trendsetters everywhere. Even contemporary designer Tom Ford of Gucci, Cher reports, told her she inspired his latest '60s-inflected collection. The multimedia onslaught will continue when her film, Tea with Mussolini, starring Dames Judi Dench and Joan Plowright, opens in the spring. Cher admits to being awestruck by the titled ensemble. "When you get around them, you don't care...
...expensive secret of stars like Gwyneth Paltrow, who--five days after sporting short, wavy hair at a London premiere--was the talk of the Golden Globes with straight tresses that flowed down her back. The look has been exploding in fashionable circles since last fall, when labels like Gucci and Marc Jacobs showed their spring/summer collections with straight, flat "Cher hair," and celebrities like Madonna and Fergie took up the style. Extensions were the hit of last week's Victoria's Secret show in New York City, and are expected to be prominent again at next week's fall collections...
...could therefore charge premium rates. But a boom in trained stylists has meant competition, and newer, more affordable processes have tamped prices even further down. Los Angeles stylist Lisha Coleman may charge as much as $5,000 a head for top-of-the-line processes at the upcoming Gucci and Versace shows. But she provides alternatives as low as $300 for a multiethnic clientele of teachers and librarians...