Michael Gates Gill was a high-flying, six-figure-earning advertising executive years ago before he was abruptly fired. He had created huge campaigns for companies like Christian Dior and Ford and lived an even bigger life, with luxury automobiles, lavish vacations and fabulous clothes.
The Grand Olympic Auditorium -- the Grand described the address, not its condition -- was a concrete vault, built for the 1932 Olympics but long since consigned to the indignities of weekly boxing and wrestling. By the time I got there in 1979, to cover the fights for the Los Angeles Times, even those indignities were passing. The networks were beginning to poach whatever attractions they could, leaving the small clubs without the denouement of long-wrought rivalries. It was a failing scene.
French fashion house Christian Dior says it is dropping prominent actress Sharon Stone from its advertisements in China after her remarks about the recent devastating earthquake being an act of "karma."
Christian Dior has dropped Sharon Stone from its Chinese ads and released a statement from her apologizing for saying China's earthquake may have been bad karma over Tibet
A significant proportion of lipstick manufactured in the United States and used by millions of American women contains surprisingly high levels of lead, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics said Thursday.
Karl Lagerfeld lamented the decision by Valentino to retire next year, saying Wednesday that he feared the 75-year-old Italian would find life after fashion a bore
Remember when it was all the rage to screen socially and environmentally irresponsible stocks, like sweatshop employers or polluters, from your portfolio? Now a new class of niche investment products has emerged to weed out what some see as even worse: the hoi polloi.
Michael Gates Gill was a high-flying, six-figure-earning advertising executive years ago before he was abruptly fired. He had created huge campaigns for companies like Christian Dior and Ford and lived an even bigger life, with luxury automobiles, lavish vacations and fabulous clothes.
The Grand Olympic Auditorium -- the Grand described the address, not its condition -- was a concrete vault, built for the 1932 Olympics but long since consigned to the indignities of weekly boxing and wrestling. By the time I got there in 1979, to cover the fights for the Los Angeles Times, even those indignities were passing. The networks were beginning to poach whatever attractions they could, leaving the small clubs without the denouement of long-wrought rivalries. It was a failing scene.
French fashion house Christian Dior says it is dropping prominent actress Sharon Stone from its advertisements in China after her remarks about the recent devastating earthquake being an act of "karma."
Christian Dior has dropped Sharon Stone from its Chinese ads and released a statement from her apologizing for saying China's earthquake may have been bad karma over Tibet
A significant proportion of lipstick manufactured in the United States and used by millions of American women contains surprisingly high levels of lead, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics said Thursday.
Karl Lagerfeld lamented the decision by Valentino to retire next year, saying Wednesday that he feared the 75-year-old Italian would find life after fashion a bore
Remember when it was all the rage to screen socially and environmentally irresponsible stocks, like sweatshop employers or polluters, from your portfolio? Now a new class of niche investment products has emerged to weed out what some see as even worse: the hoi polloi.
eBay Inc. disclosed on Friday that Germany's top court ruled several months ago that the world's largest online auctioneer must do more to halt the sale of counterfeit goods on its site.
Melania Knauss, fiancee of real estate mogul Donald Trump, will be wearing a sumptuous gown made by fashion house Christian Dior when she walks down the aisle this weekend.
In the conference room of an exquisite townhouse off Hanover Square in London, two dozen executives of luxury powerhouse LVMH are contemplating a critical question: Who should be the new women's we...
Actress Charlize Theron has signed a contract with Christian Dior to be the face of its best-selling perfume J'adore, pitting her against fellow Oscar winner Nicole Kidman who will launch a similar campaign for Chanel.
Like some sort of dark daffodil, camouflage is popping up all over. But even when coming from a chichi fashion house--and many have surrendered to the trend--it gives off a welcome whiff of insurge...
It's hard to resist the temptation to buy when you see the fancy fakes sidewalk vendors display. But pick the wrong thing, and you will look like a phony--or a fool--to those who know the genuine a...
You diet and exercise until model-thin, but the cellulite on your thighs remains. Can you find help in a bottle? Perhaps. Christian Dior's new cellulite remedy, Svelte, is causing a stampede at cos...
Ever since 1969, when Christian Dior put his moniker on a pair of $45 eyeglass frames, designer eyewear has proliferated, growing from 5% in the mid-'80s to an eye-popping 40% of the $4.6 billion f...
EKCO GROUP A company whose bread and butter is producing cookie sheets, potato peelers, and mousetraps does not make mouths water on Wall Street. But what Ekco Group of Nashua, New Hampshire, lacks...
That well-dressed, freshly coiffed woman busy window-shopping as she scurries to be in her Manhattan office by 7:30 a.m. could well be Linda Wachner, 45, CEO of clothing manufacturer Warnaco Group....
As CEO of Warnaco, the $650-million-a-year apparel company she led in a 1986 LBO, Linda Wachner, 43, knows that to sell her Christian Dior, Hathaway, and Olga brands she must listen to what retaile...
FRIENDS SAY Bernard Arnault is deeply in love with luxury goods. The 39-year- old French entrepreneur disputes that. ''You fall in love for inexplicable reasons,'' he says. ''This is completely rat...
AN ELEGANT STRATEGY BASED ON CLASSY BRANDS One of the new band of tough, U.S.-style European managers, Bernard Arnault, 39, revived a bankrupt textile company, then built a luxury-goods empire that...
FOR CHRISTMAS a year ago, former Max Factor president Linda Wachner wanted a $905-million present: Revlon's cosmetics and perfume business. She wanted it so badly that she spent Christmas day in he...
FOR CHRISTMAS a year ago, former Max Factor president Linda Wachner wanted a $905-million present: Revlon's cosmetics and perfume business. She wanted it so badly that she spent Christmas day in he...
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