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A DECADE AGO, RALPH LAUREN THE COMPANY WAS JEOPARDIZING ITS LUXURY REPUTATION AND WATCHING PROFITS PLUMMET. THE SOLUTION: FINDING THE RIGHT PARTNER FOR RALPH LAUREN, THE MAN. HOW PATRICE LOUVET HELPED AMERICA’S MOST IMPORTANT FASHION COMPANY GET ITS GROOVE BACK.

AFTER DECADES AS A QUIET ARCHITECT OF AN UNMISTAKABLE COOL AND TIMELESS AESTHETIC FOR CULT LUXURY LABELS, NADÈGE VANHEE STEPPED FIRMLY INTO THE SPOTLIGHT WITH HER ARTISTIC DIRECTORSHIP OF HERMÈS. TEN YEARS AFTER HER FIRST COLLECTION FOR THE MAISON LANDED IN STORES, SHE’S ONE OF THE FEW WOMEN TO HAVE ACHIEVED MEANINGFUL LONGEVITY ATOP ONE OF FASHION’S MOST STORIED BRANDS. NOW HER VISION IS CLEARER THAN EVER

1. When you are away a lot travelling with work, you need a reliable way of waking you up. I bought this portable alarm clock from the Hermès shop in Harrods for my wife Bettina years ago, but appropr

PEOPLE USED TO COMPLAIN THAT cars all looked the same. Now, though, with an endless array of retrofuturistic coupes and LED emblazoned crossovers, if you think cars are all copy/paste, you’re not look

Compared with his slick-haired, sharp-suited predecessor, Luca de Meo, new Renault Group CEO François Provost has a decidedly professorial air about him. His suit and tie, his neat haircut and even hi

IF you constantly flit between town and country, ...