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...pair of battered Doctor Martens were not, I quickly realized, the shoes with which to make an entrance at a dinner party being held in Shanghai in honor of the late Salvatore Ferragamo. Were he to have seen them, the "Shoemaker of Dreams," as he was known when he was crafting platforms and slippers for Hollywood icons like Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe would doubtless have spun in his grave, fast enough to power the lights of the Bund, Shanghai's luxury strip...
...choice of Shanghai as the city in which to launch Ferragamo's 80th anniversary celebration hints at the growing importance of the Eastern hemisphere in the global market for luxury goods. Ferragamo's descendents know that growing their market share requires expanding their presence in nouveau riche markets like mainland China, where they have already opened an impressive 25 stores and have 8 more planned for this year. Some of these outlets are even popping up in unlikely and remote places such as icebound Harbin and industrial Shenyang - far-flung, provincial cities where high style still means white socks, polyester...
...movie stars Tony Leung (In The Mood For Love) and Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha), whose presence drew hordes of passersby to gawk from just outside the VIP enclosure, holding phones aloft in an attempt to capture a grainy souvenir. Ferruccio talked about how Shanghai was chosen for the exhibition's premiere partly because the city represented 'the future.' Let's hope they do something about the eye-watering, throat-searing pollution before the future actually arrives...
...University during the trip. Several high-profile Harvard administrators will accompany Faust, including University Provost Steven E. Hyman, Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood ’75, and new Graduate School of Design Dean Mohsen Mostafavi—who has promised to give Faust an architectural tour of Shanghai, the president said. “I insisted that, if I was going to go to China, I was going to get to see some things and not just go to meetings,” she said, citing the Forbidden City and the Great Wall as some of the country?...
What's palpable at Boss is a forward motion so fast you can feel it. Year-on-year growth is at 15%, which Slzer equates to the growth of Shanghai, where you blink and another skyscraper has gone up. "You can feel the growth, [whereas] a 5% growth in a brand or a city is more organic," he says, pointing to tonight's audience, which is full of youthful faces. "If you grow, you hire mostly young people, and if you don't grow, your company looks older...