Word: hermes
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...Case studies include that of a multinational cosmetics firm that decided to hire a highly qualified international marketing executive who interviewed in a headscarf - "from Hermès, but a headscarf nonetheless," the book notes - despite reservations about the covering censoring her own beauty. Another details the case of an airport-security company that dismissed a male employee who walked out of meetings to pray and refused to interact with women. One of those situations was ultimately judged acceptable, while the other was deemed disruptive enough to justify dismissal - and it isn't difficult to see which was which...
...customers to order a six-figure wardrobe with one phone call or arrange to have their yacht spruced up in 24 hours with a single e-mail. At Selfridges department store, a new one-stop luxury section called the Wonder Room brings together the classics - Chanel watches, Tiffany silverware, Hermès scarves - with more audacious items like the gold-plated, diamond-encrusted Vertu phone decorated with a ruby snake and costing $370,000, the price of a one-bedroom apartment in South London. Catering to foreign tastes, exclusive wine bars are serving more sake, while the city's best...
...Italian mother-in-law gave me a string bag (which I still use) to carry my groceries in, explaining how deplorable it was to waste all those plastic and paper bags from the market. Notwithstanding the silliness of the label-conscious, how could anyone buy a reusable bag (Hermès') that stows in a calfskin case? The suffering that calves go through for the production of this vanity item is unconscionable. Nancy Pennington, SEATTLE...
...sweet as a stolen kiss. It's an indulgence, a passion, then an obsession. In other words, it's the ultimate French confection. Paris is divided into two camps: those who hold that the best mini macarons come from Ladurée, and those that swear by Pierre Hermé. This is a somewhat academic debate, since Hermé worked at Ladurée before opening his own shops in Paris and Tokyo...
...your tastebuds are. Ladurée is the stuff that French childhood dreams are made of. Fruit flavors are fresh and clear. I wish I'd grown up having a raspberry, citron and buttery sea-salt caramel trio waiting for me after school. But the ones from Hermé's swish shop are mini macarons for grown-ups. Like an haute couture fashion house, Hermé rolls out a new collection every fall and spring. Sophisticated flavor combinations like green tea and chestnut bring simple pleasures to a new level of contemporary cool, while the olive oil or white truffle...