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Ghesquière has the capacity do that, given the time--he has to do at least two pioneering collections a year--and the freedom. "Creativity is the lifeblood of our company," says Robert Polet, CEO of Gucci group. "My CFO doesn't like it when I say this, but I am happier with the output of creativity of all our brands than I am with the bottom line." The pressure to create something new, however, is intensified by the pressure to move the huge corporate machine. Even John Galliano and Jean Paul Gaultier, both radical creative catalysts, have...
Want to look au courant this spring? Start planning to reach for the Thigh Master. On Milan's catwalks last week designers kept things supershort with a leggy mix of micro-minis, teeny minis and itsy-bitsy minis. Skirts and dresses like those above from Fendi, Prada and Gucci offered 1960s-inspired silhouettes and hemlines that stopped only barely south of modesty...
...city. There were the early adapters: magazine editors teetering out of the Four Season?s hotel with brown belts cinching their silk frocks. Then at runway shows like Trussardi?s, bright red or yellow python belts were wrapped around and around Grecian-style silk jersey dresses. By the time Gucci designer Frida Giannini opened her 6pm show on a mirrored runway, the appearance of a tight, high-waisted weight-lifting kind of belt was no surprise. A few hours later Rosella Tarabini, the jolly designer of the Anna Molinari label, coincidentally included a few of the men?s style belts...
...Gucci designer Frida Giannini says the modern way of fashion marriage works. Gucci CEO Mark Lee chose Giannini for the job, and she says "we have an excellent working relationship. Like the double G of our brand, creativity and management work hand in hand with mutual respect...
Floriane de Saint Pierre, a Paris-based headhunter whose clients include Gucci Group, placed both the CEO of Yves Saint Laurent, Valérie Hermann?who came from rival Christian Dior?and its designer, Stefano Pilati. De Saint Pierre says fashion managers are hard to find because the job is paradoxical. "If management is a science that can be taught, fashion is about culture, so you need to have absorbed all the theory yet have totally surpassed it. Fashion management is about driving a brand with fast-changing products, yet it is also long-term artist management. Managers must...