Naomi Campbell has opened up about her 25-year-long glittering yet controversial career. The 40-year-old British supermodel talked about her illustrious career with New York art gallery owner Tony Shafrazi for the Interview Magazine. Naomi was discovered while out shopping in London at the age of 15 and appeared on the cover of Elle the following [...]
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Michael Jackson Earns More in Death than in Life
June 24th, 2010 |
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It has become confirmed that Michael Jackson earned more after his death than being alive. This situation repeats Elvis Presley and Yves Saint Laurent’s cases. Their estates grew a lot after their death. We all know that the singer’s estate was going to collapse as Michael Jackson had to pay off about $500 million of [...]
Le Monde’s uncertain future: Cap in hand
June 10th, 2010 |
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France’s most respected newspaper teeters on the edge of bankruptcy
EVER since Charles de Gaulle called for the launch of Le Monde, first published in 1944, to replace Le Temps, a once prestigious daily tainted by collaboration with German invaders, the paper has prided itself on its independence. Uniquely among leading newspapers, its journalists control it, and have the right to veto the choice not only of editor but also of the company’s chief executive. But the lossmaking firm has just a few months to avert bankruptcy by finding fresh capital—and the price may be the abolition of the writers’ powers.
Three groups are still in the running to take a majority stake in Le Monde SA, the owner of Le Monde, Telerama (a weekly television-listings magazine) and other publications. At the top of the list is a consortium of Xavier Niel, a telecoms mogul, Pierre Berge, the former business partner of Yves Saint Laurent, and Matthieu Pigasse, the local boss of Lazard, an investment bank. Other possible contenders are Claude Perdriel, owner of a weekly paper, Le Nouvel Observateur; and Prisa, a Spanish media group which already owns a 15% stake in Le Monde SA. L’Espresso, an Italian media group, and Ringier, a Swiss one, this week said they would not enter the bidding despite initial expressions of interest. On June 14th shareholders will vote on any formal offers received. …
10 Hottest Young Royals of 2010
April 30th, 2010 |
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Their powers may have faded from the glory days of Imperial, old-world Europe, but what today’s royals lack in governing power they make up for in sheer class and style. The young royal ’set’ can often be found partying across the nightspots of the globe, from St. Tropez to Rio, London to Ibiza – just [...]
Bidding wars
April 5th, 2010 |
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Record sales are expected at Hong Kong’s art auction
IN 2008 China overtook France to become the third-biggest art market in the world, after America and Britain. France managed to reverse that setback in 2009, helped by an Yves Saint Laurent/Pierre Berge sale. But relief is likely to be temporary. The value of sales at art auctions in China reached €2.3 billion ($3.3 billion), up by 24% on the previous year. China’s share of the world auction market climbed from 10% to 18%, largely at the expense of Britain and America. Chinese art has grown in popularity. Christie’s Chinese sales in New York last month were its biggest ever. Sotheby’s sales in Hong Kong (April 5th-8th) are also expected to reach record highs. The 20th-century Chinese art sale alone is expected to raise HK$75m ($9.7m) and the ceramics and fine art auctions could fetch more than HK$200m.
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How China bucked the trend
March 3rd, 2010 |
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What really happened in 2009
ONE of the common assumptions about the art market in 2009 was that the stunning success of the three-day Yves Saint Laurent/Pierre Berge sale in Paris—the highest grossing single-owner sale ever—would allow France to reclaim its position as the third-biggest art market in the world after America and Britain. It didn’t.
Clare McAndrew, a Dublin-based analyst of art-market statistics and the founder of Arts Economics, was the first to prove categorically that France’s century-long pre-eminence in the art world had been usurped by China. That was in 2007, and many presumed it was no more than a blip. But Ms McAndrew’s most recent report, the latest in a series commissioned by The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) and published to coincide with the start of TEFAF’s Maastricht art fair on March 12th, proves categorically that China’s art market is getting bigger all the time. …
Breaking a sweat
February 12th, 2010 |
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Christie’s and Sotheby’s jockey for position in 2010
IN 2009 Christie’s year on year sales fell by a third, but it was definitely Christie’s year. The private auction house, owned by Francois Pinault, a French luxury-goods billionaire, sold four of the year’s five most-expensive works and seven of the top ten. Of the pieces that fetched more than $10m in 2009, 61% had been sold by Christie’s. Its year was bookended by two high points: the hugely successful Yves Saint Laurent sale in Paris in February—the biggest single-owner auction ever—and an electrifying Old Master sale in early December, when two bidders fought over a small pencil drawing by Raphael, taking the artist to a new record of GBP29.2m ($47.9m), the second-highest price ever paid at auction for an Old Master.
Harold Wilson once said that a week was a long time in politics. He might as well have been talking about the art market, for in the past few weeks the auction house’s fortunes appear to have been completely reversed. …
Kate Moss flashes boobs in see-through top at Paris Fashion Week
October 7th, 2009 |
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Kate Moss left little to imagination after sporting a see-through top at Paris Fashion Week.
The English model arrived at the event along with her beau Jamie Hince who was suited and booted for the Yves Saint Laurent show, reports the Sun.
The catwalk queen was joined by other stars, including Katy Perry who was seen with [...]
Alexandra Sinderbrand: Fashion’s Fight Against Fakes: An Exercise in Hypocrisy
July 20th, 2009 |
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Buying an authentic designer goody in lieu its counterfeit alternative isn’t a step toward ending sweatshop labor: It’s playing into Fashion’s latest and greatest, activism-focused marketing initiative.