her own advisory firm

as when the Tom Hanks character decided to stop hermes birkin 30running and return home to Alabama, leaving his followers stranded in the middle of nowhere. What did it mean? It meant absolutely nothing. If anything, Ms. Kawakubo was marking her territory by creating a void. She knows that the fashion industry is absorbed in what’s new and at the same time is just mindlessly churning out clothes, or sending consumers fleeing to stores like Uniqlo. Ms. Kawakubo was also demonstrating her power before a group that has become incredibly territorial — about advertising, exclusives, suddenly locking down young designers with investment deals. at Insead and HEC Montreal, knows how to connect and empathize with people, according to Concetta Lanciaux, a former director of human resources at LVMH who mentored him while she worked as an aide to his father.

 She now runs her own advisory firm. of long, slim tunic over a flared, below-the-the knee skirt — be it A-line or pleated with an asymmetrical hemline. And one of the best examples (anyway, the least overwrought) was a tank top in what looked like navy linen with a matching skirt and a hermes birkin 35green plaid undershirt that seemed based on a Canal Street plastic shopper. But then this collection was a mixed bag: strong on those sculptural accessories and Ms. Philo’s unmatched sense of élan, but also highly fragmented and, in terms of shapes, a bit clunky. “He has a real talent for image and communication,” Lanciaux said of Antoine, who became Vuitton’s director of communications in 2006, the same year he was named to LVMH’s board.

 His print ad campaign for Vuitton featuring Mikhail Gorbachev, Catherine Deneuve, Steffi Graff and Andre Agassi, won a Cannes Lion advertising award in 2008. Since becoming chairman of Berluti, Antoine has hired a high-profile designer and acquired a Parisian tailor in a bid to make the shoemaker a menswear rival to Ermenegildo Zegna SpA and Brioni. He’s also spent heavily on marketing and opened stores from Miami to Shanghai. Arnault in January said he expects his eldest son to lift Berluti revenue to “several hundred million euros,” though he set no deadline. The brand, which is hermes birkin 40 unprofitable, had sales of about 90 million euros in 2012, Berenberg estimates. But Ms. Kawakubo is the only designer powerful enough to put nonsense on her runway and get away with it. She doesn’t have to explain. (Some designers, like Haider Ackermann, also showed nonsense — in the form of too many see-through tops over skinny pants — but are too caught up in their own image to know the difference.)