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...toured the world - the U. S., France, Germany and the former colonial power Belgium - to ask for help in rebuilding his shattered country and to promise to abide by a peace deal to end the 33-month war there. He fired the ministers he inherited from his father, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, and promises to install a cabinet that "will work for Congo." Says a senior Western diplomat in the capital, Kinshasa, a city of moldering colonial grandeur and mid-1970s mineral boom excess: "For a guy his age he's remarkably savvy. The big question...
...would be hard to do worse than his father did. When the one-time Marxist Laurent-Désiré - backed by Rwanda and Uganda - ousted the venal Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997, he was greeted with cheers and optimism. After three decades of kleptocratic dictatorship, it seemed that Congo could finally begin again. But the senior Kabila's promise of national reconstruction didn't get much further than slogans and billboards. Within a year the country was back at war, and the smiling giant had cracked down on political opponents and postponed promised elections. So when a bodyguard shot...
DESIGN NEWS AND EVENTS Yves Saint Laurent's New Look if you want to know what a brand stands for, look at its stores. Or so goes the conventional thinking. Since the early 1990s, the shift, particularly in the U.S., from designers selling to retailers to stocking their own directly operated stores has changed the face of the shopping landscape. Some of the world's greatest architects are now designing stores. Rem Koolhaas, who won architecture's Nobel Prize equivalent last year, the Pritzker, is conceptualizing the New York Prada store, which sits beneath the Soho Guggenheim Museum. Christian...
...Paris nightclub teaching people to dance to James Brown records on the juke box. Labro was so struck with his presence that he offered Luchini his first film role in "Tout Peut Arriver" (1970). Luchini threw himself into acting with a passion, studying with such theatrical legends as Jean-Laurent Cochet and Michel Bouquet and devouring the classics. "I couldn't go to school," he says, "so like all self-taught people, I immersed myself in the works of two or three great writers - Flaubert, Hugo, Molière - and developed myself from there...
...believed to expire in June; Ghesquiere is bringing the legendary haute- couture house Balen- ciaga under the upstart Gucci Group umbrella. Not bad considering that just 18 months ago Gucci "Group" was composed of just Gucci. Since then, American Ford, 39, who designs the Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent lines, and De Sole, 57, have given a makeover to the company's image, moving it from fusty, fashion conservative and financially precarious to sexy, of the moment--and profitable...