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...tale began 11 years ago, when Mellon, 39, then an accessories editor at British Vogue, spotted the potential of an East London shoemaker. With seed capital in the form of a £150,00 ($307,000) loan from her father Tommy Yeardye, who made his fortune with Vidal Sassoon hair products, she set about turning Jimmy Choo into a global brand...
...Hermann turned down an entry-level post at L'Oréal in order to supervise special projects at the Comité Colbert, a luxury-goods trade association. (Maureen Chiquet, Chanel's global CEO, who is the same age as Hermann, started at L'Oréal as a brand manager for hair color.) When a L'Oréal director inquired why Hermann went elsewhere, she told him, "I didn't want to spend my days selling shampoo in the south of France...
...weeks before voyaging back, as if through time, to a farmhouse in the rugged English county of Shropshire? Amanda Harlech has been called a muse?a term she doesn't much care for, perhaps because it seems so passive, focused mainly on her magnificent jade-colored eyes, storm-black hair and delicate frame that is perfect to carry clothes. She is also possessed of a considerable intelligence, itself at odds with what is now called fashion intelligence, which means tracking trends, being In, going out. So what does Harlech do? She reads, she thinks, and ever since she joined England...
Massenet, who has inherited the slender frame of her former-Chanel-model mother, says what she gives up is personal indulgence. "I don't work out. I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should," she says, "and my social life has taken a beating. I'm sure friends think I'm out somewhere glamorous, but I'll be home reading a story with my kids." Ask her what she wishes were available to buy at the click of a mouse, and she answers, "Sleep! I can't tell...
...some Turkish women the issue extends beyond how students dress their hair to the broader question of how secular women can thrive in a Muslim society. In an interview last weekend, Serif Mardin, a prominent liberal sociologist, cautioned against social changes that could impinge on the freedoms of non-religious women in Turkey. "I am 100% convinced that the ban on headscarves is an anti-democratic practice," he told Hurriyet. "But I also believe Turkish women are justified in thinking that their status is in jeopardy...