Word: yves
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...drugs don't work, there is a wide world of wigs, weaves and extensions. Yves Durif, a top New York City stylist, says women who are losing their hair can get smart haircuts that help hide the problem. "For straight hair, it's much better to keep it all one length, as close to the head as possible, a very simple haircut, like a very short bob," he says. "For women who have curly hair, I would go pretty short and very layered...
...most chic intersection in the world: the corner of Avenue Montaigne and Rue François I. The restaurant that sprawls over most of the Hôtel Costes' lobby on Rue St.-Honoré is where you eat if you're French and you're famous, period. Yves Saint Laurent dines in the atrium twice a week. Isabelle Adjani, Catherine Deneuve and Johnny Hallyday are regulars. So are John Malkovich and Johnny Depp. The Costes know them all and feed them steamed vegetables (€20), carrot juice (€8) and roast shrimp with Thai herbs (€28). The food...
CHICAGO On Michigan Avenue, where $12,000 alligator handbags sell like pork futures, the favorite is Yves Saint Laurent's mauve cashmere coat, right. "People are really responding to color," says Phyllis Collins, senior European buyer for Marshall Field...
Turck Paquelier is one of the few senior executives L'Oreal has hired from the outside. After 13 years at Procter & Gamble and five at Yves Saint Laurent Parfums, she was chosen by L'Oreal to balance the needs of designers and of L'Oreal chairman and CEO Lindsay Owen-Jones. In Turck Paquelier's first six years at the company, she tripled L'Oreal's Armani business. By 2002, the brand was bringing in about $429 million a year in sales...
...prestige brand--that is, one that can be bought only at high-end department stores and not the corner Wal-Mart. Similarly, Gucci's Ford, who is widely praised for his seeming inattention to the color of a model's skin, has signed Indian model Ujjwala Raut to represent Yves Saint Laurent cosmetics, and Lancome has hired Japanese-German-British Devon Aoki and Nigerian-born Oluchi...