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Long lines and shoe inspections aren't the only hassles of post-9/11 travel. New visa rules and security precautions are popping up all the time. Here's a selection of the latest regulations affecting Asian travelers...
...actually had a shoe closet built in my apartment in Manhattan. The whole bedroom was designed around [it]. It's backlighted so they're presented almost like art; they're color coordinated; and they're behind smoke-glass doors...
...have the stereotypical head for business, but I have feet that were made for heels," says Tamara Mellon, president of Jimmy Choo and one of few women in the luxury-shoe business. In 1996, after a stint as accessories editor at British Vogue, Mellon formed a partnership with Choo, a couture shoemaker she discovered in London's East End. By 2001, Mellon, ambitious to expand the brand, had cut a deal with Equinox Luxury Holdings Ltd., which acquired Choo's share of the ready-to-wear business for $15 million (Choo still controls the couture business). Soon the brand...
...graduating from the London School of Economics, she worked for two years at McKinsey in Paris before joining LVMH in 2000. She learned the business with John Galliano, working on product development and marketing for his label and then switching to Dior. Now Delphine heads Dior's women's shoe division, one of the company's fastest-growing sectors. "She's got a very good sense of product, a very good eye," says Sidney Toledano, chief executive of Dior Couture, who says Delphine is treated the same as anyone else at the company. "Her father insists on that...
...like having grit in a shoe that you never quite get rid of. One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life. And yet I still have the same passion for musicmaking and for expression. I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps...