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...teahouses. In her heyday in the 1960s, she was earning $500,000 a year, and her face adorned everything from posters to shopping bags. Iwasaki entertained world leaders and assorted celebrities, including Prince Charles, who scrawled his name?uninvited?on one of her favorite fans, and fashion designer Aldo Gucci, who spilled soy sauce on her kimono. The memoir details $5,000 costumes, how rice bran is good for softening skin and the difficulty of wearing okobo, or six-inch platform sandals. In his novel, Golden immersed the reader in the geisha world. Iwasaki tells about it, and there...
...came from a company that didn't even put on a runway show. With its third collection by Tomas Maier, Bottega Veneta, the leather-goods house famous in the 1970s for its woven bags and the slogan "When your own initials are enough," confirmed expectations that it would be Gucci Group's next successful turnaround. When Gucci bought the company in February 2001, the designers were two British consultants whose attempts to revive the label included products like black catsuits with "BV" in neon lettering. Tom Ford, Gucci's creative director, hired Maier away from Herm?s and charged him with...
...underwear to the skirt a new priority - but times have rarely been worse. Of course, short skirts on runway models don't necessarily mean short skirts on millions of women. Judging by the way even highly paid professionals were struggling to keep their minis in place at Gucci, the trend might not catch on. Fashion editors in Milan suggested wearing them as tunic tops paired with trousers. Retailers in Milan loved the looks, not because they think women will rush to buy barely-there dresses, but because they know that for every edgy trend, there's a modified version that...
...needed to go it alone on everything, P&G is much more open to partnering with and learning from outsiders. One of Lafley's chief lieutenants, global-marketing officer James Stengel, occasionally meets with his peers at a range of other companies, from Kraft and Nestle to Toyota and Gucci, to keep abreast of new marketing trends--something that would not have happened at Procter just a few years ago. "In the old days, they kept us almost entirely in the dark," says Tom Kelley, general manager of leading design firm IDEO, which is studying people's bathroom-cleaning habits...
...ones want something other than just a regular pair of boots.' The trend is more rooted in Italy than Arizona. According to Shanghai Tang's international marketing manager Joanne Ooi, buckskin, fringes and cowboy boots are the latest twist on the 'motorcycle chic' look engineered by Gucci and Nicolas Ghesquiere a few years back. 'There is a Western vibe in fashion now. (Designers) are looking to the Wild West for inspiration.' Giddy...