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...first place. Cerebral and reserved, Slimane couldn't be more dissimilar to Galliano, the buoyant, effusive man who has spent the last four years tearing down the image of Dior and rebuilding to fit a vision uniquely his own. Slimane achieved fame in fashion circles in 1996 with his sleek, sexy designs for the Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche men's label. His clothes are unique in men's wear-slim leather coats, narrow suits and sheer shirts-subtle and elegant pieces that focus more on the cut than on styling flourishes. Critics labeled him either modern or feminine...
...Slimane's first task was to design his own office and atelier-sleek and modern with hidden tall narrow doorways and wood floors and just down the street from the historical home of Christian Dior and Galliano's team. Next, he produced ads featuring a black-and-white portrait of a young, bare-chested boy shot by Richard Avedon. And by the end of 2001, the first Dior Homme stores will open. Rarely, if ever, will the men's and women's clothes hang side by side. "All they share is a logo and the color gray," Toledano says...
Neeleman has been equally successful at creating buzz. jetBlue's sophisticated, color-coordinated branding campaign extends from its hip ad copy--"jetBlue Airways brings humanity"--to the blue upholstery on the sleek, brushed-steel chairs in the terminal. It's a branding strategy for a company that's planning to be around a long time. Still, it's fair to ask Neeleman why jetBlue won't auger in like so many other start-ups. No problem, says the founder: "We're built for a recession. We've got some of the lowest costs in the industry and the best management...
...sleepy sensuality of the young Robert Mitchum--a narcoleptic dreamboat quality that suggests a sleek predator roused from slumber by a poke through his cage. So when Benicio Del Toro got a call around noon Los Angeles time a few weeks ago to be told that he'd won the New York Film Critics Circle's Best Supporting Actor prize for his performance as a Mexican narc in Traffic, the 33-year-old emitted something like a growl. The new lion of Hollywood is a late sleeper and, he says, "I'm not a happy camper when I get woken...
Near the top of the list of almost every billionaire's must-have list is a Gulfstream jet. The sleek, top-of-the line Gulfstream V can zip eight passengers from New York City to Tokyo at 87% of the speed of sound in a cabin that looks more like a Manhattan pied-a-terre than an airplane. At this time of year, airports in Aspen, Colo., Miami and Maui are so jammed with Gulfstreams and other jets that you'd have to call in advance to find room to park yours. The most luxe of these planes come crammed...