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...ceiling of the tent inside the Louvre's Cour Carrée, where Marc Jacobs was showing his spring 2008 collection for Louis Vuitton, was lined with giant pulp-romance-novel covers featuring lurid titles like Taipei After Dark and louche images of pinup girls in trashy lingerie. When 12 curvy models strutted onto the runway dressed in opaque white nurses' coats and prim white hats, their mouths covered with black-lace face masks, the audience might have imagined it was witnessing a 3-D rendition of artist Richard Prince's famous nurse-paintings series. And indeed, the real point...
HONG KONG The Pochette Damier Azur ($493) features Louis Vuitton's classic pattern in fresh colors...
...used to be that fashion designers were stars, and when it came to time-honored accessory brands, consumers didn't really know?or care?who designed the goods as long as the logo or label was there. But times have changed. From Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton to Reed Krakoff at Coach, the name behind the bag, not on it, is becoming more and more familiar to shoppers. The most recent addition to this crowd is burgeoning American fashion star Derek Lam, who in December signed on to become the first creative director of luxury Italian leather-goods brand...
...chairman François-Henri Pinault, who was a classmate of Hermann's in business school, insists she personifies the brand. He snatched her away from PPR rival LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, where she was running ready-to-wear at Dior, as much for her winning record as for her provenance. "Not only does Valerie have all the professional skills," Pinault says, "but she is the YSL woman. She is French, and YSL is the most French of brands. And being an active woman and by her feminine instincts, she will have ideas come...
...Vogue title to the Indian market. "I think for the longest time Vogue was a bit of an elusive dream for the Indian woman," says Tanna. "Unlike China, we've always been surrounded by a sense of luxury. We've had the maharajas who've grown up with Louis Vuitton trunks and jewelry made exclusively for them by Cartier and Boucheron and all that. There's been no cultural revolution that's been thrust upon us. It's not as if we're seeing our first red lipstick and going out and buying it in hundreds of thousands. India...