Diego Segura

The region-beta paradox describes the phenomenon whereby, sometimes, a person may benefit from being worse off versus just mildly off, because being worse off may mobilize them to take action to address the problem, whereas being mildly off can lead them to stagnancy.

The problem, Ms. Velez has learned, is that recognition — the buzz around awards, reviews and celebrity endorsements — doesn’t always yield tangible returns. If anything, she said, it contributes to the idea that things are going well when they are not.

In the case of Gordon, he did employ Barbie pink, but don’t hold that against him. He is a company man who makes beautiful clothes for a client who still cares to wear beautiful clothes. I liked that it wasn’t camp or costumey: just pretty twin suits, slim skirts, twirly tulle minis.

What is perhaps most debilitating for Iger, however, is the simple fact that the rules of the game have changed, and the ambitions have diminished. The glory days of growth and conquest that defined his first tenure have given way to a brutal battle for survival, one in which Iger may be forced to deconstruct the very empire he helped build, starti... See more

Thanks to a logistics overhaul executed a year earlier, Proenza Schouler’s spring collection was by March already in stores and paid for. By luck, their collaboration with Birkenstock — for which they topstitched the German sandal-makers’ popular Arizona and Milano styles, glazing them in what have become signature colours like cobalt blue and burg... See more