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When Coach CEO Lew Frankfurt hired Krakoff six years ago, he gave him total creative control to oversee everything from store design and merchandising to, well, glove design. Krakoff set about hiring big-gun photographers such as Mario Testino, Mikael Jansson and Peter Lindbergh to shoot the ad campaigns, and then he redesigned all the Coach stores. "The first two years were kind of rocky," he admits. "I had no idea what I was getting into when I started." Now Krakoff has hit his stride, specifically with a series of best-selling handbags, including the Hampton tote and, more recently...
...Franklin arrived in Paris in December 1776 to a public frenzy that would not be matched by another American landing until Charles Lindbergh set down there more than 150 years later. Instantly Franklin was surrounded, celebrated, applauded in the streets and theaters. He spoke, and Paris purred. His likeness blossomed everywhere, on clocks and rings and walking sticks. Terra-cotta Franklin medallions were served up by the thousand but could not satisfy the demand. The portraitists wore him out. He could be held responsible for a riotous explosion of bad poetry...
...their cave, whether or not it was their actual dwelling, was run as a media attraction by Manuel Elizalde, the Philippine politician who became their patron. And that made it impossible to carry out any sort of legitimate scientific research. Elizalde favored journalists over anthropologists; celebrities such as Charles Lindbergh and Gina Lollobrigida (who was a chum of Imelda Marcos, for whom she wrote the text of a coffee-table book about the Tasaday) choppered in to have a look at the prelapsarian freaks...
...prize was beside the point, especially when ice on a wing or sleep could be fatal. Charles Lindbergh had flown the Spirit of St. Louis from California to New York, so he was used to the air-cooled Whirlwind engine, a splendid name for something attached to little more than a flying gasoline can. But the Atlantic was ocean, with no chance of a soft landing for 4,000 miles. He crossed it in 33 1/2 hours, the first to do it solo and nonstop. You'd think he'd brag. But Anne Morrow, who married him, recalled being captivated...
...that year, the obscure rabble-rouser Adolf Hitler grabbed his first headlines by staging his failed beer-hall putsch. One day the following year, Lenin died, making way for Stalin. It was clear that the 20th century was not moving on horseback. One evening just three years later, Charles Lindbergh landed his plane near Paris, and suddenly the world seemed a lot smaller...