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...Givenchy two years ago. A year later, Arnault moved him to Dior and plucked Alexander McQueen--even cheekier and younger, at 27--to guide the fortunes of Givenchy. At Louis Vuitton, a maker of fancy luggage and handbags that dates to 1854, he has hired an American, the young sportswear designer Marc Jacobs, to create a line of bags and sportswear to take on the chic of Gucci and Prada. Jacobs should give Vuitton a high and profitable fashion profile--what he was hired to do--stepping into a company whose business is up 54% since it became part...
...that proved a prescription for turmoil, as the changes confused customers and department buyers alike. For example, Donna Karan's DKNY line of sportswear had been in Nordstrom's cutting-edge Savvy shops since 1989 and was now a candidate for golden oldie. So Nordstrom moved DKNY to the Individualist section, a much larger space for career women, and switched other labels from there to still another section. The changes rippled through the stores like rows of tumbling dominoes, and the resulting disruption surprised the new management team. "We underestimated the problems of shifting things around," Nordstrom says. "We just...
There were other careers he might have pursued. At George School, the Quaker prep school Ennis attended in Pennsylvania, he was a good singer and actor. In Atlanta he appeared in a local ad for Fila sportswear. Just before his death, he promised Michelle Hood, a fashion-photographer friend in New York City, that he would pose for her. But she says he never thought of modeling as a serious career, only as a way to make a little extra money for school. Apart from sports cars, he did not have his father's passion for the appurtenances of celebrity...
DIED. RENE LACOSTE, 92, French 1920s tennis champion and founder of the sportswear firm that bears his name; in St.-Jean-de-Luz, France. Called "le crocodile" for his tenacity on the court, he turned the reptilian nickname into a yuppie icon...
Girotto, wearing Champion sportswear, then ran with the propane torch toward Cedar Rapids city hall, where the torch spent the night...