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When she left Dior, friends described Galliano as angry. But he has apparently recovered. In a rare public act of conviviality between luxury houses, the designer issued an adoring statement about the CEO of Saint Laurent. "Valerie is an incredible woman to work with, as she is sharp, strong, determined?all the qualities that male company presidents possess, yet at the same time she retains her feminine charms...
Pilati arrived at YSL from Prada seven years ago as an assistant to Tom Ford, the Gucci Group's design czar. In 2004, when Ford departed, Pilati took over at the house of Saint Laurent. Early on, fashion editors left his runway shows disappointed, but more recently they have warmed to his designs and declared him a bona fide talent...
Hermann insists that whatever designs YSL offers, it should?it must?adapt to choices women are making at the moment. "Monsieur Saint Laurent said, 'We are dressing the woman of the street,' meaning a real woman, not a woman who is in the dream of the designer," Hermann says. "If you look at what we are doing today, the girls and the bags [of course, the bags], are still reflective of that. But now women are choosing?choosing many lives?and we must be superaggressive and reactive to those choices...
...next passion was fashion, and it led her from summer jobs at the Yves Saint Laurent boutique in New York City to 16 years as a fashion editor at Vogue, where she did covers and influential shoots with photographers like Richard Avedon and Deborah Turbeville. There too she eyed the top prize. "I don't think you stay for 16 years and not want the ultimate say," Wang explains. When she realized she wasn't going to get it, that she would never be editor in chief, "I had to try to recover," she says...