Word: gucci
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...current age of opulence, in which contemporary artworks sell at auction for tens and sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars, the relationship has become even more entwined. Art fairs like Miami Art Basel and the Venice Biennale have emerged as important marketplaces for luxury brands like Gucci, Cartier and Bulgari. A fashion-forward designer like Jacobs works with trailblazing artists like Prince and Japan's Takashi Murakami...
...regional offices in mainland China, ImagineX (part of the Lane Crawford Joyce Group) represents 23 high-end fashion, lifestyle and beauty brands in more than 360 points of sale in greater China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan). But it doesn't stop there. While, for example, Prada and Gucci are not on her books anymore, it was Wong who provided the springboard for both into mainland China, and she continues an association as their landlord through the Walton Brown Group's shopping malls, the most prestigious of which are specialty designer stores called Maison Mode...
...founders are retired (although very much looming on Paris' Left Bank), and since 1999 the company has been owned by the Gucci Group, a division of one of France's largest conglomerates, Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR). Managers and designers have come and gone, yet none of them have been able to take on the YSL legacy and create something new?and lucrative...
Pilati arrived at YSL from Prada seven years ago as an assistant to Tom Ford, the Gucci Group's design czar. In 2004, when Ford departed, Pilati took over at the house of Saint Laurent. Early on, fashion editors left his runway shows disappointed, but more recently they have warmed to his designs and declared him a bona fide talent...
...Chanel. Not Gucci. Not even Halston. The sexiest new-old house to bask in the fashion limelight again first held sway more than 500 years ago. From 1485 to 1603, the house of Tudor ruled with iconoclastic sovereigns Henry VIII and Elizabeth I and an unshakable belief in power dressing. Forget horse bits and camellias; in the Tudors' heyday, outré looks like the ruff, the codpiece and the farthingale hoopskirt were high-fashion musts...