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Roberto Cavalli isn't the only fashion company doing well in a shaky economy. Coach, Burberry, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Zara and Yves Saint Laurent are all selling well. So what's the magic formula for getting customers in the door in dire times...
IVORY COAST Last Chance Treaty President Laurent Gbagbo went on national television to endorse a French-brokered peace accord that he signed with rebel forces. His speech may pave the way for the end of the four-month-old civil war. Earlier, the French government sent 450 more troops to bring its forces in the country up to about 3,000. Most are likely to protect the pro-government commercial capital, Abidjan, and the 12,000 French citizens still in the country...
...ideas are thus circumscribed by what manufacturing companies have the skill and inclination to produce. Domeau & Peres can and will produce almost anything. It has worked with established stars such as Andree Putman and such leading lights of the younger generation as Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Elodie Descoubes and Laurent Nicolas, and Christophe Pillet, whose Video Lounge recliner, left, has become the company's unofficial trademark...
...opened Villa Moda, a 100,000-sq.-ft. mall-cum-boutique (he calls it a "luxury bazaar") in a glass box on the outskirts of Kuwait City. The $20 million building is nearly as impressive as the swarm of big brands--Fendi, Marni, Ferragamo, Prada, Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent--clustered in mini shops inside, along with a Botox bar and a traditional Middle Eastern restaurant (with nontraditional Cappellini furniture) overlooking Kuwait Bay. To make sure the opening didn't go unnoticed, al-Sabah offered members of the international fashion set free business-class flights so they could celebrate with...
...look seemed to symbolize liberation from the tyranny of all Gucci or Prada all the time. Soon designers like Tom Ford caught the bohemian bug, and a striking facsimile of the Calypso peasant blouse turned up on Vogue's September 2001 cover with a label that read Yves Saint Laurent...