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...London offices of Future Systems, a converted warehouse in Notting Hill, you discover right away that this is an architectural practice that lives up to its name. All you have to do is look over the big glass display cases that line the office. They're filled with models of projects and proposals that have the kind of silhouettes you used to see in world's fair pavilions but just about nowhere else. Here's their Selfridges department store in Birmingham, England, a billowing form covered with silvery disks. Here's their upcoming museum for Maserati, the Italian car manufacturer...
...after selling a family-owned manufacturing business, they paid an initial membership fee of $100,000, and for $24,000 in dues each year, they stay in any combination of more than 2,500 luxury homes for up to 60 days. With Exclusive Resorts, unlike the time-share model, if they decide to cancel their membership, 80% of their initial deposit is returned. Since the Mitchells travel most of the year, their per-day costs are often less than for a stay in a hotel...
...Aveda is really on the leading edge of this work," says Malcolm Bond, the Estée Lauder Cos.' executive vice president of global operations. "They then become the role model for our other brands to pick up on." Lauder employs 30 people in its environment, health and safety division to figure out how to reduce energy consumption, seek new energy sources and find ways to use postconsumer and sustainable materials in each of its 25 brands. "For example, we've reduced our power consumption company-wide by about 10% since 1998," says Bond. "That's the equivalent of us planting...
...been very lucky in Paris," says Robin, who arrived in the city from Brittany at age 17 and went to work for Jean Louis David before becoming a model booker at Elite Model Management. "People would call up asking for a blond, and I would contact a model and say, "Quick, come to my kitchen?you're going blond...
...Strict guidelines are finally put in place to combat the skinny-model problem...