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...worked. Gucci is arguably a hotter brand than any in the LVMH stable. And Gucci is seeking to bestow its panache on shoemaker Sergio Rossi and fallen couture house Yves Saint Laurent, in a series of deals valued at more than $1 billion. "We are going to apply our own business model to YSL," De Sole promises, "going from a licensed-type situation to a controlled situation." Last week YSL announced it would be cutting its licensing agreements from 160 to about 50 to protect the value of its brand. It doesn't hurt that Ford, arguably the premier designer...
...turn of the century, the Women’s Temperance Union squared off with them, presenting petition after petition, but to no avail. The St. B would live up to the reputation of their namesake St. Botolph, the hard-drinking patron saint of the Saxons. Nowadays, younger members are setting a new example—hard liquor is no longer a staple. Litero-Culturati and other such cognoscenti prefer wine...
...Mary in the 20th century. Gertrude Tiske's "Portrait of Mary" (1920) depicts a young woman with red braids in a yellow dress and checkered apron. The portrayal of Mary as an ordinary woman provides a stark contrast to the exalted portraits of earlier centuries, which showed Mary as saint, regal queen or grieving mother. Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, an artist living in Boston, gives a striking interpretation of the Holy Family in eight photographs of a mother and father embracing their son in turn. Only the child is visible; the parents' faces remain hidden from the camera...
...Marisleysis, surrogate of the Drowned Madonna, back from the hospital where the stress has sent her, works the barricades now, distributing cups of cool drink to the people in the way that a priest distributes communion. And they take the cups from her hand as from a saint...
...Then in the dream I saw a video from the Saint Boy's sanctum. The Boy is wearing the golden neck chains of Freedom. He is kneeling on a bed and delivering a speech in Spanish - a speech with emphatic gesticulations, and in my dream, I think to myself: They have, by this fanatical spiritual politics, metamorphosed the Boy into the Dictator. The Boy's video speech is a parody (simultaneously innocent and sinister) of the Beard's famously fervent and empty orations. Nice touch, Fellini...