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...“He’s driven,” says Steven Kolb, who worked with him at the CFDA. “You don’t get to be Tom Ford and sell a business for $2.3bn [in upfront payments] if you aren’t certain of what you want in life.”...
...“They put values above sales,” observes Steven Kolb, chief executive of the CFDA, the US fashion industry’s organising body....
...I go back one week later and it looks like I wasn’t even there. We’re never going to pull so much from the plant that it can’t just pop right back up.”...
...“I don’t think the phone ever rang.” “They didn’t have a particularly accurate understanding of that particular country [Afghanistan]. But they were obviously pretty respected....
...The past 48 hours was “a big movement, but nothing that is completely out of the question,” said Tilmann Kolb, emerging markets analyst with UBS Wealth Management....
...The then of-the-moment T-shirts with catchphrases like “Make America New York” were stale not long after they popped up in designer collections week after week....
...“But if you really want to be China’s strategic partner, you can’t try and stop these deals.”...
...“If you look at the designers who live there, it’s thriving,” says Steven Kolb, chief executive of the Council of Fashion Designers of America....
...Suzanne Kolb, president of E!...
...● Blind Watchers of the Sky by Rocky Kolb. This is not just a marvellous history of how we developed our understanding of the universe....
...“If they didn’t want to wear their coats,” says Karen Altuzarra, “I would tell them, fine, but if they didn’t want to wear their coats, they could go stand in the corner....
...“I didn’t want to run before I could walk – I knew I wasn’t ready for my own business and wanted to learn the tricks of the trade from experts before branching out on my own,” he says....
...As Steven Kolb, president of the CFDA, said: “I think it’s an acknowledgement that what has always been the defining element of American fashion has evolved.”...
...Then they try to live up to the big brands they admire and they just can’t keep up.”...
...On another level, however, this is also about the growing pains of an industry, and a schedule that doesn’t reflect the current fashion reality....
...The finalists will be able to use showrooms to help them “expand their international business and increase their presence outside of the United States,” according to Steven Kolb, CFDA chief executive....
...“One of our platforms is to help designers be more international,” says CFDA executive director Steven Kolb. “Many American designers want to be global brands....
...Who wouldn’t want to see that?...
...There wasn’t a swan’s feather in sight when that most accomplished of classical ballerinas, Diana Vishneva, presented herself along with five soloists from the Maryinsky for an evening of determinedly contemporary...
...The corps tried hard but still hasn’t quite mastered the jazzy showbiz style that Stravinsky’s Jewels requires....
...You couldn’t distinguish them any more....
...As Harry Kolb of estate agency Sotheby’s International, puts it: “No one would wish to interfere too much with those gardens....
...“Grateful and unhappy” - the Mozart biographer Annette Kolb’s response to being in the US - summed up the mood of those who left homes and cultural milieu....
...Ernst Kolb, a Voith works council member, seems to accept the employers’ argument for continued restraint: “Five per cent would be too much for a company like Voith; 2.5 per cent would be the right result...
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