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• 21st- century boy

  - 2009-01-21

  For a decade he's propelled fashion into the future, crafting awe- inspiring clothes from paper, wood and even fibreglass. On the eve of a major retrospective, Hussein Chalayan reveals the art and engineering of his designs to Susannah Frankel - and explains why he'd be happy to dress Pamela Anderson...

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• Sports giant throws its weight behind Chalayan

  - 2008-02-29

  "Linford Christie said to me 10 years ago, 'when I look good, I run faster'," Jochen Zeitz, chairman and CEO of the sportswear giant Puma told a Paris press conference yesterday, announcing the designer Hussein Chalayan's appointment as Puma's first ever creative director. Puma has also bought a majority stake...

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• Fortune Names Gucci Group Ceo Robert Polet Europebusinessman Of The Year.

  - 2008-01-09

  M2 PRESSWIRE-9 January 2008-FORTUNE: Fortune Names Gucci Group Ceo Robert Polet Europebusinessman Of The YearC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09012008 NEW YORK -- FORTUNE announced today that it has named Robert Polet its EuropeBusinessman of the Year. Far from hastening...

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• Julian Schnabel recently won the Gucci Group Award at the Venice Film Festival

  - 2007-11-01

  Julian Schnabel recently won the Gucci Group Award at the Venice Film Festival for his new movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

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• Hippie chic: Stella steps back in time and into the black

  - 2007-10-05

  By Susannah Frankelin Paris With their loose, flowing locks, fluttering, floral-print jumpsuits and wooden heeled clogs engraved with tendrils of leaves, the models at Stella McCartney's show in Paris yesterday looked as if they might have stepped straight out of a David Hamilton picture circa 1970. ...

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• Luxury Without Labels

  - 2007-07-02

  For some, nothing feels as luxurious as a designer insignia. Whether it's a massive C on the bow of glossy sunglasses or the offset LV on a well-crafted piece of luggage, the symbol plays a big part in announcing one's status. So then why did the New York-based Luxury Institute...

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• Luxury Without Labels; Bottega Veneta doesn't need a logo to prove its high-class credentials. The status lies in the way its goods are made.(Cover story)

  - 2007-07-02

  Byline: Barbie Nadeau For some, nothing feels as luxurious as a designer insignia. Whether it's a massive C on the bow of glossy sunglasses or the offset LV on a well-crafted piece of luggage, the symbol plays a big part in announcing one's status....

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• Master Class: Boucheron's Jean-Christophe Bedos engineers a revival at the legendary Place Vendome jeweler.(Accessories Flash)

  - 2007-06-01

  Luxury-goods executives often send their minions to seminars to brush up on the competition's latest marketing ploys or the evolution of consumer-shopping trends. But an obligatory refresher course in art history? Boucheron CEO Jean-Christophe Bedos took that unusual step last spring, when he dispatched his marketing...

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• BOTTEGA SEES MEN'S AS GROWTH AREA; MEN'S WEAR FILLS ENTIRE FLOOR IN NEW 9,700-SQUARE-FOOT TOKYO FLAGSHIP OFF THE GINZA.

  - 2007-05-14

  Byline: Amanda Kaiser, Contributions by Courtney Colavita, MILAN TOKYO - Bottega Veneta's men's business may still be in its nascent stages but management thought its potential great enough to give it its own floor in the recently opened Ginza flagship, the largest Bottega...

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• Pinault-Puma-Redoute; European retailers.

  - 2007-04-14

  France's PPR group buys into Puma FRANCOIS-HENRI PINAULT is defying predictions. As the son of Francois Pinault, one of France's richest and most controversial businessmen, he was generally assumed to be a fils a papa, the son of a powerful father whose main qualification...

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