Word: gucci
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...certainly a great moment for Arnault, who also controls Christian Dior. Neither Berg* nor Saint Laurent were at the YSL men's show the day before. (Remember, Arnault's archrival Gucci Group bought YSL for $1 billion late last year.) The debut men's collection by Tom Ford was a homage to Saint Laurent the man-a parade of lookalike models in the designer's signature glasses. That Berg* and Saint Laurent chose to attend the Dior show instead of the one for the brand they created could only be seen as a slap in the face...
...narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labelled," Slimane says. Universally recognized as one of the most talented designers working today, Slimane was bombarded with offers after the YSL sale-reportedly from Prada Group to design the women's collection for Jil Sander and from Gucci Group to set up a collection in his own name. Signing Slimane was a major coup for Arnault in the battle between Gucci and LVMH. Slimane said he chose Dior because he wanted his own atelier and was intrigued by the idea of creating a men's collection more or less...
...tempers. LVMH threw down the gauntlet by canceling Alexander McQueen?s last haute couture show for Givenchy on the eve of fashion week. The official explanation?production problems caused by the 35-hour workweek?didn?t fool anyone. McQueen had recently sold 51% of his own company to Gucci Group. More likely is the theory that LVMH wasn?t out to promote the defector. Yves Saint Laurent, who also recently sold his ready-to-wear business to Gucci, had some petty fun at his own show, seating the Gucci-appointed president in the third row and advertising his own boutique...
...Bertelsmann and Napster b) Time Warner and AOL c) Vodaphone and AirTouch d) Gucci and LVMH...
...brain trust, feel the group has spread itself too thin. "A few years ago, I told my brothers [fellow Clan members] that the W is gonna be like the Mickey Mouse ears," says RZA. For brands trying to be cool, though, ubiquity can be a bad thing--just ask Gucci. The W began showing up on too many things, while the band hardly showed up at all. It got to a point where the whole group assembled only once a year...