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...American icon, with more movie cameos, hot-rod clubs and fanzines than any other vehicle. Ford has sold more than 8 million since the car's debut in 1964. In this scene, though, nobody cared about that stuff. "Steve who?" asks a guy who never heard of McQueen or the green fastback in which he ripped through San Francisco in the 1968 movie Bullitt. "What's it do, zero to 60?" Inside the bar his date keeps glancing at her watch. She'll have to be patient...
Browne is quick to point out that his customers are not foppish but confident and discerning. He says his suits evoke such effortlessly masculine figures as Steve McQueen and John F. Kennedy. "It's so much more attractive when you see some guy who's not screaming a trend but has a timeless piece of clothing that fits well," he says. It's a similar distinction made by Forte about buyers of Dolce & Gabbana, which she defines as a luxury brand rather than a designer label...
...MILLION Approximate amount Alexander McQueen made when he sold 51% of his business to the Gucci Group...
...line. His farewell show included an homage to - no surprise - fashion icons of the '50s and '60s, especially Audrey Hepburn. At Givenchy, Welsh designer Julien Macdonald ended what is expected to be his last season after three years with a Hepburn homage of his own. Alexander McQueen, who had been rumored to be taking the creative director's job at Yves Saint Laurent - he turned it down - dazzled with a show that had the effortlessness and simplicity of vintage Yves. But McQueen set flashing lights into the heels of his shoes and the collars of his three finale dresses - clear...
With her black Balenciaga pants, black Hussein Chalayan top and punkish hairstyle, Elizabeth Pearce doesn't look like a hard-driving attorney. Yet Betsy, as she likes to be called, is often the first person a designer contacts when it's time to sign a contract. She represented Alexander McQueen when he left Givenchy and sold a majority stake in his company to the Gucci Group. She handled the contracts for Lars Nilsson and Rick Owens at Nina Ricci and Revillon, respectively, and is representing architect Thomas Juul-Hansen in a deal to design stores for jeweler David Yurman...