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Gucci has been on a much hillier path. After years of mismanagement by the Gucci family, the company finally went public in 1995, and its fortunes began to rise like hemlines. With the help of 36-year-old American designer Tom Ford, CEO and president Domenico De Sole transformed Gucci from the butt of jokes about men who wear loafers to a label both Seventh Avenue and Wall Street adore. (Ford's first famous look: velvet hiphuggers and a satin shirt.) Incontrovertible evidence of how far it has come: Helen Hunt wore Gucci to the Oscars this year...
...fashionistas' buttons, but the firm has been buffeted by other ill winds, from the ongoing trial in Italy of Patrizia Gucci (charged with murdering her ex-spouse Maurizio Gucci, grandson of the company's founder) to worries about the fallout from the Asian financial crisis. Last September, when De Sole announced that profits growth for 1997 would be lower than expected, Gucci stock plummeted almost 20% in one day. Sure enough, the company announced last week that this year's first-quarter net profit had dropped 10% from last year, from $48 million to $43.1 million. On top of this...
...bags and put their bamboo handles on them; they did our high-gloss calfskin--they started using all our materials," he said. "It doesn't make sense. Gucci should follow its own strategy, not mine." Such bluster, says a Gucci spokesman, is common among fashion designers. Ford and De Sole have ignored...
...many of TIME's readers who wrote in response to Steve Lopez's well-crafted and balanced story about my search for my two daughters [SOCIETY, May 11] just don't get it. Whether readers love me, hate me or believe I'm arrogant doesn't really matter. My sole concern is for my two little girls, abducted illegally by their mother, my ex-wife, nearly a year ago. My heart breaks when I ponder where they are running to now. How will this end? How will this emotionally affect two innocent children? What lessons are we teaching our children...
...reader to grasp the threads of fiction after his or her own fashion. One can barely tell when the tale spins from the story of the scientist to that of the assistant director and his cast A febrile reiteration of the word "soul mate" in myriad forms ("sole mate") reminds us of the pitch of Byers' anecdotes and how seriously he takes himself. An intriguing and feverish last passage asks agitatedly, "Where is your soul? Is it here?" as if prodding a criminal into revealing his hidey-hole. It's almost as if the author were ascertaining the location...