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...normally wouldn't comment on the physique of a company president, except that Mellon herself has exploited this asset, maintained through rigorous daily workouts. She is the brand's best model, the jet-setter seen on the red carpet and at all the best parties who looks spectacularly good in her Jimmy Choos, and has always believed that legions of women?famous or not?would want what she wants...
Then again, model Agyness Deyn was spotted recently in a leather ruff and farthingale by British designer Gareth Pugh. Silhouettes aside, designers this fall are offering a king's ransom of silk, satin, fur and jewel-like ornamentation that alone evoke the Tudor spirit. Oscar de la Renta showed ermine and chinchilla shrugs atop embroidered tulle. For Burberry Prorsum, Christopher Bailey referenced armor with a collection of austere leather coats, metal-studded dresses and black gauntlets that would not seem out of place in the Tower of London. Rodarte featured shimmering gold dresses fit for a nascent Queen...
...customers and slick operation helped it outperform every other British banking stock in 2006. The lender - not yet 50 years old - "was a darling of the stock market," says Howard Wheeldon, senior strategist at BGC Partners in London. "It was perceived as a good growth stock with a good model." Its approach: a limited branch network meant savings chipped in by its own customers amounted to a smaller chunk of the funds it could lend in the form of mortgages. So the company turned instead to other banks for cash. The result: three-quarters of its funds were borrowed from...
...taken from the subprime mess was unexpected. While French, German and Dutch banks have come clean in recent weeks over their direct exposure to low-quality U.S. real estate loans, it was the barren money markets those loans helped create that upset Northern Rock's model...
...country where the number of people over 65 will nearly double from 35 million in 2000 to 69 million in 2030, the idea of a health-care trust fund may soon become a model for other companies, particularly those in other struggling Rust Belt industries with lots of retirees. "It's not a bottomless pit, which is what employers are afraid of," says Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health, a health-care-policy group for FORTUNE 500 companies. That fear has pushed many companies out of providing retiree health benefits; only 33% of companies with more...