Word: musee
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...weeks later, a pricey half-moon of supple leather named the Muse bag was born. That was June 2005. By the end of summer, it was dangling from the arms of actresses and It girls like Demi Moore and Kate Moss, and by fall the mythic house of Yves Saint Laurent had itself a best seller...
Hermann and Pilati shy away from the notion that Hermann?a relentless listmaker with a family life in an exclusive Parisian suburb, a country home in Normandy and a job that has her traveling the world?just might be the target customer. "I am not the muse of YSL," she insists. "When Stefano shows me the clothes, I never say, 'I like it, I don't like it.' I say, 'I can sell it, or I can't sell...
...closer look at the true pioneers of global luxury, going right back to Coco Chanel, above, it's clear that when a fundamental shift occurs in the industry, it is often the work of a powerful and creative woman. The entrepreneurs, CEOs and designers (there's even a muse) presented on the following pages are most often defined by their determination and fearlessness?from the CEO who is reinventing and reviving the YSL brand to the entrepreneur who brought the Internet big-ticket luxury to the designer who gave Dior fine jewelry a whole New Look...
...filmgoer had to be diverted by the beautiful people in an Antonioni cast: stunners like Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Alain Delon and especially Monica Vitti, the director's mistress and muse for five crucial films. These stars helped Antonioni make anxiety glamorous, passivity photogenic, entropy entertaining. You could say he made "boring" interesting...
...buoyant spirit, was his next live-in love; she anchored the mid-'50s films that brought Bergman his international esteem. He met Ullmann in 1964, and wrote Persona - the film that reestablished him as an artistic pioneer - in part so he could be with her. Ullmann became his muse for the next decade, most indelibly in the TV-serial-turned-film Scenes from a Marriage. She would also direct films from two of his late scripts, Private Confessions and Faithless, and star in his last work, Saraband, a sequel of sorts to Scenes from a Marriage...