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Three and a half years ago, McCartney took her quest to Yves Saint Laurent Beauté, which, like her eponymous label, is owned by the Gucci Group. Maggie Ciafardini, CEO and managing director of the U.S. division of YSL Beauté, admits that what the fashion designer had in mind presented unique challenges: "What was key for Stella was to show that you could have gain without pain, and it was indeed a challenge for the R&D team to develop luxurious textures without any petrochemicals or chemical preservatives. Some products are particularly difficult to formulate, and the research and development took...
Silver Streak This page: Gucci leather clutch with Lucite and silver plaque ($950, gucci.com) Opposite page, from top: Belle by Sigerson Morrison silver bow flat ($260, sigersonmorrison.com) Roger Vivier Ballerine Chips ($525, 212-861-5371); Sigerson Morrison perforated flat ($345, sigersonmorrison.com) Bally Lumia ($295, bally.com) Ralph Lauren Collection Brigita skimmer ($395, polo.com) Oscar de la Renta patent runway flat ($450, Oscar de la Renta boutiques...
...What's really worrisome is that Beijing's impotence in this area reflects a similar inability to enforce its will on wayward local authorities in a whole range of crucial areas. If the central government can't stop the sale of Gucci knock-off handbags around the corner from its own enforcement office, how can they stop factories poisoning the drinking water tens of millions of its citizens depend on a thousand miles away? It's a scary thought for the Chinese and the outside world...
...case to anyone who would listen. Critically, labor unions weren't hostile; they had already worked with his company and knew what to expect. And Mittal won a powerful French ally early on: François Pinault, a fellow self-made billionaire whose holdings include luxury designer Gucci. Pinault was appalled by the reaction to the bid. "I didn't like the welcome he received in France, nor the xenophobic, even racist character of certain comments about 'the Indian,'" explained Pinault, who joined Mittal's board and introduced him to the cream of the French business establishment. "Pinault really supported...
...latest in a series of high-design boutiques to open in Tokyo's expensive Ginza district is Gucci. On the tail of Chanel and Christian Dior?which built modernistic marvels of their own in 2004?Gucci opened the doors to its long-awaited flagship, below, earlier this month. The dual-layer glass exterior of the eight-story building lights up at night with an installation by Shozo Toyohisa. Inside, the mood is a vast departure from the hard-edged sex appeal of Gucci's Tom Ford era. The new, less intimidating look incorporates warm color schemes...