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...most chic intersection in the world: the corner of Avenue Montaigne and Rue François I. The restaurant that sprawls over most of the Hôtel Costes' lobby on Rue St.-Honoré is where you eat if you're French and you're famous, period. Yves Saint Laurent dines in the atrium twice a week. Isabelle Adjani, Catherine Deneuve and Johnny Hallyday are regulars. So are John Malkovich and Johnny Depp. The Costes know them all and feed them steamed vegetables (€20), carrot juice (€8) and roast shrimp with Thai herbs (€28). The food...
...dominated the café trade: they made their living hauling coal up apartment stairs while their wives served drinks to the clients. The drink-serving part stuck. Jean-Louis and Gilbert Costes grew up in the business; their mother Marie-Josèphe Costes turned the family farm at Saint-Amans-des-Cots into an inn, which filled up with returning Auvergnats every summer. They told tales of the money they raked in over the zinc-topped bars of Paris, and the Costes boys listened and dreamed. "For us, Paris was the universe," recalls Gilbert, who moved there...
...Constitution, Declaration of Independence and history of this country knows that our country's foundation is that of a Judeo-Christian ethic. Just because a minority of people want to be free of morals doesn't mean that we all do. Majority, not judges, rules this country. Bob Montville Saint Paul, Minn...
Turck Paquelier is one of the few senior executives L'Oreal has hired from the outside. After 13 years at Procter & Gamble and five at Yves Saint Laurent Parfums, she was chosen by L'Oreal to balance the needs of designers and of L'Oreal chairman and CEO Lindsay Owen-Jones. In Turck Paquelier's first six years at the company, she tripled L'Oreal's Armani business. By 2002, the brand was bringing in about $429 million a year in sales...
...brand--that is, one that can be bought only at high-end department stores and not the corner Wal-Mart. Similarly, Gucci's Ford, who is widely praised for his seeming inattention to the color of a model's skin, has signed Indian model Ujjwala Raut to represent Yves Saint Laurent cosmetics, and Lancome has hired Japanese-German-British Devon Aoki and Nigerian-born Oluchi...