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...into fashion. When she launched her collection in 1980, Picasso had only been dabbling in jewelry design, creating a line of costume jewelry for Bergdorf Goodman and incorporating jewelry into stage outfits she designed for avant-garde productions in Paris. It wasn't until her friend the designer Yves Saint Laurent asked her to make some pieces for his collections that she began to take the craft seriously. Several years later, Tiffany creative director John Loring enlisted Picasso to design a table setting for an exhibition that the jeweler was staging. Soon she was showing Tiffany executives...
Salvation, not surprisingly, started with a handbag. "We need a bag," Valerie Hermann announced two weeks after taking over as CEO of Yves Saint Laurent. "We need a good bag, something that will sell...
Carine Roitfeld, editor in chief of French Vogue, told her not to bother. "The Saint Laurent girl doesn't carry a bag," Roitfeld said. "She puts her hands in her pockets." Hermann listened politely to Roitfeld's lecture about that iconic Saint Laurent woman, who wore tuxedos and accessorized with more attitude than jewelry...
...wrote about the darkness in her soul for almost 50 years was the truth. Thank you for showing us the outstanding portrait of that much admired, mysterious nun. It seems as though the sadness of the whole world was mirrored in those eyes. Father Albert Herold, Order of Saint Benedict, Mtunzini, South Africa
...significant minority of fans--if guaranteed anonymity--would even support injuring an opposing player or coach. In 1940 the Cornell football team forfeited a victory after realizing that it had been mistakenly given an extra play. If a coach did that today, sports writers would declare him a saint. And his team's fans would boil...