Word: gucci
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...politically correct version of Clinton’s autobiography is only the latest in a long tradition of making cheap Asian knockoffs of Western products, from Gucci bags to Harry Potter to Microsoft. Businesses are furious about a practice they say costs $200-250 billion a year in lost revenue and have made it a priority to pressure foreign governments to crack down. But if Americans are really serious about stopping cross-Pacific piracy, we might want to start with our own movie industry...
...million overhaul. Around the world, art lovers and architecture mavens alike responded with a loud, bemused, "Who?" So unknown was the 67-year-old architect outside his native Japan that one confused well-wisher congratulated Terence Riley, MOMA's chief curator of architecture and design, on selecting "Tony Gucci," a nonexistent Italian architect...
THINK IT'S DIFFICULT DECIDING WHICH movie to see on a Friday night? Try betting hundreds of millions of dollars on what will be the next box-office hit. Running the show at a big movie company may seem like a glamorous job, gilded with that Gucci and Gulfstream lifestyle, but to survive at the top, it also requires a near biblical gift of prophecy. Fail enough times, and you can say bye-bye to studio life--and the perks that go with...
...architect has a number of choice projects to his credit in Japan, including eight museums, the man is so little known in the U.S. that one baffled well-wisher congratulated Terence Riley, MOMA's chief curator of architecture and design, thinking the museum had selected an Italian architect, Tony Gucci. In an era of glamorously expressionist architecture, of Frank Gehry's voluptuous Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, MOMA has opted for a work of what you might call old-fashioned Modernism, clean-lined and rectilinear, a subtly updated version of the glass-and-steel box that the museum first championed...
...Ferre looked over the horizon to exotic locales like San Salvador de Bahia and the Amazon rain forest for his orchid-covered creations, and included python sandals and zebra-striped dresses. But the loudest buzz of the week was in the foyer of the Hotel Diana, waiting for the Gucci show to get started. As waiters served martinis under a huge orchid-covered chandelier and the honchos from Gucci owner Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, including CEO Serge Weinberg and new Gucci Group CEO Robert Polet, mingled in the crowd, the chatter was all about how Tom Ford's replacement, onetime Gucci...