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Every designer's dream is to create something so stylish it transcends fashion and becomes a classic: the Gucci loafer, the Burberry trench coat, the Hermes bag. Creating something iconic is only half the battle; it's what comes next that counts--the tweaks that render these things as cool today as they were the year they were created. When Coco Chanel--above, circa 1926--died in 1971, her classic tweed jacket could have died too. She herself had kept the look alive for more than five decades. How much longer a life did a thousand-dollar jacket deserve...
...sizable amount for a brand in the midst of a turnaround like Lanvin but mere peanuts to Verber, vice president of Mercury, a Moscow-based Russian retail company that has recently become known as a savior of sorts in the fashion world. Brands like Gucci, Prada and Chanel are partnering with Mercury to open outlets in Russia, and the country is one of the few bright spots in the global economic gloom of the last few seasons. But Verber is even more valuable to the fashion world this year: in October, Mercury will try its hand at department stores. TsUM...
...upscale shops on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Barneys, Brooks Brothers and Saks were a bust--nothing formal in Conor's size. Bergdorf's Best & Co. shop had lovely seersucker suits and Peter Pan--collared shirts, but the point was to dress my son, not humiliate him. And Gucci's $2,000 jade green silk bomber jacket would have clashed with my lavender bridesmaid's dress...
Nobody wanted to take fashion tips from starchy Steffi Graf. But now, with two bold, stylish women--Serena and Venus Williams--ruling the game, the fashion industry is playing mixed doubles with the world of tennis. At the spring 2004 menswear shows in Milan last week, Gucci designer Tom Ford introduced a chic take on the tennis bag in crocodile and a Stan Smith-style sneaker with croc trim. At the menswear shows in Paris, meanwhile, Louis Vuitton featured tennis whites as a major theme. Over at Wimbledon, where tennis was actually being played, Venus Williams was serving...
DOMENICO DE SOLE, president and CEO of luxury-goods group Gucci, after the worst three months in the firm's history saw first-quarter profits slide...