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...general feeling is that fashion has become so globalized and merchandised that the idea of a designer with an emotional life and the ability to communicate it to others is passé. "Fashion is now about marketing and merchandising," declares Pierre Berge, Yves Saint Laurent's business partner and a key player on the Paris fashion scene for several decades. "It is not about designer fashion. It is about [mass-market retailers like] Zara." The clothes are nice, the argument goes, but the real craft is in how you sell them...
...migration outside Europe's borders matches that. Given widely varying official statistics, it's hard to know just how popular the road to Morocco is. "The numbers are debatable, but what's beyond doubt is seniors buying homes in Morocco has grown exponentially over the past half decade," says Laurent Paul Alteresco, director of the real estate service company Ramses Consulting, which specializes in assisting non-Moroccans buying homes and relocating to the kingdom. The French Embassy lists around 35,000 of its nationals as residents in Morocco - certainly not all pensioners. Still, there's indication many French seniors...
...financing charges. As President, Chirac enjoys immunity from prosecution, but new elections are set for May, and there is scant chance that Chirac will run again, let alone win. That was why the opposition howled in protest when the government on Wednesday named a close legal advisor to Chirac, Laurent Le Mesle, as chief prosecutor of Paris. The new job will give Le Mesle a key role in deciding whether charges are ever brought against Chirac once he reverts to being a regular citizen...
...next year. His political allies triumphed in every one of the city's 20 districts, but it was a close thing: his sub-mayor in the 3rd arrondissement, Jacques Dominati, squeaked through with a margin of just 20 votes. Opponents charged that Dominati and his allies, including his sons Laurent and Philippe - now respectively a city councillor and a senator - had won only after enriching the electoral rolls with the names of 327 non-residents. Dominati, denying any wrongdoing, has claimed that adding the names of friends and relatives was "a republican custom." So, he might have argued...
Floriane de Saint Pierre, a Paris-based headhunter whose clients include Gucci Group, placed both the CEO of Yves Saint Laurent, Valérie Hermann?who came from rival Christian Dior?and its designer, Stefano Pilati. De Saint Pierre says fashion managers are hard to find because the job is paradoxical. "If management is a science that can be taught, fashion is about culture, so you need to have absorbed all the theory yet have totally surpassed it. Fashion management is about driving a brand with fast-changing products, yet it is also long-term artist management. Managers must...