It's very dangerous out there. As much as my New Year's resolutions called for being less neurotic and paranoid (remember my catchy, oft-repeated mantra of, "The only two things that happen when you go out is that you get into a car accident or get murdered"), I still see all the tortious liability that come with slick roads and torrential sheets of rain. All I saw out there were cars nearly hydroplaning and slippery turns in the underground parking garage by Gelson's.
OK, but the likelihood of personal injury by negligence aside, I love rain! I may love it even more than streaming sunshine, if only for the promise of lazy days indoors with warm lighting and warmer tea. How much cozier is a Starbucks when droplets tap the wide windows? About the only weather I truly dislike is non-weather -- the white, cloudless and sunless sky in which lighting nobody looks good in. You know what I'm talking about -- totally unflattering.
And for your fashion edification:
The world's third largest multi-brand luxury multinational, Gucci Group also owns Sergio Rossi, Boucheron, Roger & Gallet, Bottega Veneta and Bedat & Co. Gucci Group is owned by Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, a leading European retail and luxury group controlled by French billionaire Francois Pinault.
It's no different from knowing that when you buy Pizza Hut you're also giving a chunk to Taco Bell. Not that any of us need to feed the machine, but isn't it interesting to know that when you purchase cheap French pleather shoes from La Redoute, you are actually buying under the house of Gucci? And that its head honcho isn't even Italian, but French?
Matthieu was once asserting the superiority of French fashion, and I pointed out that American Tom Ford was at that time, the world's leading designer (circa 2002). I remember his Gallic shrug. "Then why does he work for Yves Saint Laurent?"
I was very pleased by the comments for the last post. It got me thinking a little bit more. Oddly, they're both male, which is further evidence of the reticence of men, how much they're not really saying. Women tell all kinds of stories. Yours truly included.
posted by Lucy Sloan @ 4:35 PM
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