Mash-Up

Ideas of power: consumerism, leader/trend-setter, wealth, regality, domination, persuasive, feminism

“I don’t wear the same thing a lot of times,” she said. “But so much time and work goes into making clothes. I want the clothes to be cared for like a forest, generation after generation.'"
Her companies take heaps of intense, solid swaths of color from the United States and Europe, ship it to China and recycle it into salacious looks, which must have prompted at least one fellow traveler to think that Barbie was on board.

After the clothes are thrown away, the cycle of daring lipstick feminism starts all over again. A great saleswoman and savvy deal maker, profit last year rose 349 percent to $175 million.

"My desire has always been to sell an experience in the clothes industry, concocting a new sex-symbol vocabulary with a bracing, modern edge. It's not about the fantastic colour, but what the fantastic colour can do for you.” She unveils Versace’s latest recycled clothes as if she were a particularly hip and plugged-in friend showing off inventions in your living room. Truth is, the sense of informality comes only after grueling hours of practice.”

“And One More Thing...Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of purple baroque prints. It gives a kind of mystery, a coziness and sensuality in the evening.”

References: (Harvard Style)
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Gallo, C 2006, How to Wow 'Em Like Steve Jobs , BusinessWeek, accessed 5 May 2008, <http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/apr2006/sb20060406_865110.htm>