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...“In today’s saturated market, an ingenious strategy to cut through the noise is the art of category creation,” says Laurent François, managing partner at consultancy 180 Global....
...Strong demand among Chinese shoppers for high-end cosmetics such as the Lancôme brand and Yves St Laurent perfumes powered the world’s biggest cosmetics maker to 9.6 per cent comparable sales growth in the...
...Laurent Vasilescu, an analyst at Macquarie, remained cautious on the company’s wearables initiative. He said: Time is running out as the state of the business continues to deteriorate....
...In 10 years Laurent has lost only a Bose sound system and a few bottles of champagne from the cellar....
...The Italian Sale October 18 Christie’s, St....
...Tart on the finish but none the worse for it. 13% £9.99 Real Wine Co, 0800 0322 992, www.therealwineco.co.uk Producteurs Plaimont, Le Passé Authentique 2010 St-Mont Bravo les Gascons, for having rescued...
...entered the Life & Arts Christmas Challenge, published on December 24, and congratulations to Kathy Leahey of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, who was the first correct entry chosen and wins six magnums of Laurent...
...Paris You can spot the Hermès flagship store on the Faubourg St-Honoré from a distance because of the crowds gazing dreamily into its windows....
...In the past week, the French PPR Group, which includes luxury brands such as Gucci and Yves St Laurent, announced it was bringing in an “environmental profit and loss” accounting system that would measure...
...In the past fortnight, the following shows have taken place in New York: Calvin Klein, Diane von Furstenberg, Yves Saint Laurent, Stella McCartney, Pucci, Céline and Lanvin....
...He has worked with Gucci, Calvin Klein and Yves Saint Laurent on the filming of the Gucci, Obsession and Opium fragrance adverts respectively, as well as with shoemaker Christian Louboutin on a photographic...
...It is late on a Tuesday afternoon, and a group of Bombardier managers have led the way to a large metal cylinder in one of their St Laurent factory sites outside Montreal....
...has embossed its address on wallets, and Yves Saint Laurent has on clutches....
...In New York, he stays at the St Regis. “I like going to the same places, knowing the people. Tradition!...
...The lunch has been brokered by Messier’s friend and former colleague Laurent Perpère, once chairman of the football club Paris St Germain and now senior partner of Brunswick in France....
...In one of the fashion industry’s more famous cases Yves St Laurent suyccesfully sued Ralph Lauren, the US designer, in a French court in 1994 over the cut of an evening dress....
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