Chanelâs Visionary, Holding Forth From His Designer Throne
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Those seeking career advice about how to become an emperor of fashion will find little if any useful information in âLagerfeld Confidential.â
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High valuations can sink a chieftain's reign.
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A Chilean collector outbids the Met for prize couture. His mother is his muse.
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Some designers are so influential that high street chains copy their every move. One such style-setter is Marc Jacobs, whose edict for next spring is: party like it's 1945!
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The late Isabella Blow held sway over  one of India&#39;s premier fashion events on Saturday with a  leading designer dedicating his show to the doyenne of British  fashion.
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For years, Roberto Cavalli has led the trend for skin-tight jeans and skimpy animal print dresses but next summer his glitterati followers will have to loosen up and slip into something a little more comfortable.
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Paris' newly renovated Decorative Arts Museum is a dollhouse on a grand scale, where each room offers up treasures: Napoleon's golden throne, fashion designer Jeanne Lanvin's purple boudoir, the velvet-draped bed of a 19th-century courtesan.
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In the latest round of musical chairs at France's fashion houses, the Gucci Group appointed Valerie Hermann from the Christian Dior house as chief of Yves Saint Laurent.
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It's no easy task to follow Tom Ford. Stefano Pilati's debut as designer for Yves Saint Laurent was a largely polka-dotted affair, as the top houses wrapped up their Paris shows for the spring-summer 2005 ready-to-wear season on Sunday.
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Valentino, one of the undisputed kings of fashion whose name is synonymous with elegance, will retire in January from the couture house he founded nearly half a century ago.
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Fine jewelry has found purveyors among branded fashion names, whether Chanel or Bergdorf Goodman.
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A celebrated red-tailed hawk evicted  last week from his upscale New York digs is getting  professional design help for his bid to move back to the ritzy  Upper East Side apartment building where his nest was perched.
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To their high society owners, a pair of haute couture shoes can be a precious thing.
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For James Kilts, the former chief executive who engineered the sale of Gillette Co., the important thing in business is taking the right decision.
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The company's original visionary returns to the helm.
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If the mayor of Paris won't get off his duff and clear the way for building a new civic garden, maybe the denizens of a virtual world will have to do it for him.
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After 45 years as a leading designer, Valentino says goodbye to the fashion world with a haute couture fashion show in Paris.