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...brilliant at steering the Prada and Miu Miu brands with his wife Miuccia Prada. But acquisitions have been rockier. Following a brief honeymoon period after Prada Group acquired the majority stake in Jil Sander, the eponymous designer walked, returned, then walked for good in 2004, to be replaced by Raf Simons. (The Jil Sander company was sold earlier this year to the British-based investment fund Change Capital Partners...
...Sander. In her second season at Gucci, creative director Frida Giannini embraced Ford's sexy legacy with a collection inspired by David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust period, featuring flared pantsuits, slinky jersey minidresses and platform heels. Pitted against the quiet, strong simplicity of Jil Sander, where Belgian menswear designer Raf Simons presented his first collection for women, Gucci might have seemed too vulgar. But as Ann Stordahl, executive vice president of upscale retailer Neiman Marcus, pointed out, "the winds of fashion are changing quickly...
...Sander. In her second season at Gucci, creative director Frida Giannini embraced Ford's sexy legacy with a collection inspired by David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust period - featuring flared pantsuits, slinky jersey minidresses and platform heels. Pitted against the quiet, strong simplicity of Jil Sander, where Belgian menswear designer Raf Simons presented his first collection for women, Gucci might have seemed too vulgar. But, as Ann Stordahl, executive vice president of upscale retailer Neiman Marcus, pointed out, "the winds of fashion are changing quickly." Indeed they are. No sooner had Simons shown a winning combination of severe, boxy jackets over...
...attack. It was purchased for cash one day before the explosion by two men, one of whom had a Moroccan passport and may fit the description of a suspect in the August bombing. The second man mentioned planning to drive to Morocco. Some West German authorities speculated that the RAF was working with terrorists from the Middle East...
...grenades and detonators. The plot in Munich could be a sign that the fractious radical right is organizing itself into a terrorist network. There is increasing concern among politicians and law-enforcement officials that neo-Nazis could form a movement as organized and deadly as the Red Army Faction (raf), which carried out kidnappings, killings and bombings from the 1970s to the '90s. One investigator, who wished to remain anonymous, says German law enforcement takes the threat seriously, but rejects the raf comparison. "The raf was a group of people with a much more sophisticated intellectual background," the official says...