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...July, Polet, 49, became CEO of Gucci Group, the world's third largest luxury conglomerate. He comes from an unlikely place--Unilever, where he was head of the frozen food and ice cream division--and has a tough mandate: sail Gucci, fix Yves Saint Laurent (where losses widened to $135 million in 2003) and mesh both of them with half a dozen younger businesses into a profitable whole. Here Polet talks with Sarah Raper Larenaudie about barnstorming Gucci facilities to meet and greet--and reassure...
...biographies--The Journey of a Woman: 20 Years of Donna Karan (228 pages), Carolina Herrera (208 pages) and Marc Jacobs (80 pages). On the heels of Ford's final catwalk bow comes Tom Ford (Rizzoli; 384 pages), which catalogs the meticulous designer's decade of work for Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. And when the edifying is done, these books work even better on the coffee table than by the bedside. --BY KATE NOVACK
...dubbed into English, including Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns; in New York City. Best known for playing Dr. Paul Fletcher on The Guiding Light for 13 years and Steve Burke on One Life to Live during the 1970s, he was also the unseen film voice for such actors as Yves Montand and Marcello Mastroianni...
...tailored to the A380's needs. Still, the spectacular collapse of 2E's midsection has some wondering whether style didn't undermine solidity. Paul Andreu - ADP's main architect over the past three decades, and who also designed 2E - stood by the futuristic structure as "one of my children." Yves Egal, air transport specialist for France's National Federation of Transport Users' Associations, doubts that French devotion to style caused 2E's problems. "Atlanta is a wonderfully convenient airport that gives no attention to style, while the more chic Charles de Gaulle's main drawbacks lie in its organization...
...Harvard students made their way past a police officer on horseback silently watching the proceedings. They were armed with rainbow flags and handmade signs plastered with slogans. “No discrimination in the Constitution,” read one. “God Created Adam and Yves,” declared another...