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...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...
Except for a brief moment in the '70s when avocado was the color to wear, green has always been a tough sell. But over the past few months, the shunned shade has shown up everywhere from Julianne Moore's Yves Saint Laurent Oscar dress and matching Boucheron earrings to Hershey's new green Chocolate Syrup. "We're seeing it across the entire marketplace and at every price point," says Leatrice Eiseman, director of the Pantone Color Institute...
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...