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Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Are a Cute Couple
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Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Are a Cute Couple

Leonard and Evelyn Lauder's romance is a thing of beauty.
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Leonard and Evelyn Lauder's romance is a thing of beauty. Leonard, the son of Estée Lauder, is former CEO and current chairman emeritus of the beauty empire his mother built. His wife, Evelyn, serves as the senior corporate vice president and heads up the fragrance division. Together, they helped build the company into a multi-billion dollar business. In the March issue of WSJ. Magazine, out on Saturday, the pair discusses their 50-year marriage and decades of running the company together. Here's a preview of what they have to say about working with each other.

Leonard on Evelyn:
"Even though she oversees [the fragrance division] as an individual, all the names we have on the fragrances relate to us as a couple: Sensuous. Intuition. Beautiful. Pleasures. All those names are names that have sprung, in truth, from our relationship. We did, on occasion, collaborate: I’d walk by her office and she’d say, 'Come on in here,' and there would be an arm with three or four little marks on it and she’d say, 'Sniff this,' and whatever I’d sniff was terrific. I’d leave. And you’d have just seen the CEO in action."

Evelyn on Leonard:
"If I ever made a cologne for Leonard it would be called Handsome. In the office sometimes I would be standing in the hallway at my assistant’s desk and I would feel a hand brush my back. I would look up and he would say, 'Oh, it’s you.'"

The entire story is worth tracking down this weekend, especially if you're a romantic with a head for business. It's always amazing when people stay in love for five decades; it's especially impressive when they've found a way to work together, too.

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Quote Of The Day: On The New Louis Vuitton Campaign

Sitting on the hood of the astronauts’ pickup truck, unidentified, is Vuitton’s $1,530 “Icare” travel bag named for Icarus, the hero of Greek mythology who dies when he flies too close to the sun.
by coutorture Sitting on the hood of the astronauts’ pickup truck, unidentified, is Vuitton’s $1,530 “Icare” travel bag named for Icarus, the hero of Greek mythology who dies when he flies too close to the sun. Is that a little weird? [Antoine] Arnault says when he saw the bag, he thought “what a nice symbol and coincidence! We are representing these people who went closer to the sun than anybody.”
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Quote Of The Day: Women Over 35 Not Accounted For Online

Here lies a problem common to most of these otherwise forward-thinking fashion sites.
by coutorture Here lies a problem common to most of these otherwise forward-thinking fashion sites. After the initial fun is over, weather forecasts, friends' groups, and video can seem gimmicky, and when the sites present youthful styles like that pintucked T-shirt and tights to a grown woman headed to the office on Monday morning, they can seem downright disconnected.
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>> INSIDER WIRE —The Wall Street Journal demolished its fashion bureau just before New York Fashion Week last month, letting go a few contributors along the way, including Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, who largely wrote the paper's fashion blog, Heard on the Runway.  It's disappointing, but not really surprising, then to hear that after today, which marked the end of Paris Fashion Week, the blog will likely go dark; blog posts have been dwindling for the past month, but we're sorry to see it go, the posts that were done made it a must-read.
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>> INSIDER WIRE —The Wall Street Journal demolished its fashion bureau just before New York Fashion Week last month, letting go a few contributors along the way, including Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, who largely wrote the paper's fashion blog, Heard on the Runway.  It's disappointing, but not really surprising, then to hear that after today, which marked the end of Paris Fashion Week, the blog will likely go dark; blog posts have been dwindling for the past month, but we're sorry to see it go, the posts that were done made it a must-read. [The Cut]

Wall Street Journal Fashion Bureau: No Longer
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Wall Street Journal Fashion Bureau: No Longer

>> Even icons aren't safe anymore.  In late December, Village Voice laid off 30-year veteran and fashion writer Lynn Yaeger — she's since been picked up to blog for New York magazine during Fashion Week — and now, the Wall Street Journal has dismissed 23-year veteran Teri Agins as part of a decision to close its fashion and retail bureau.The number of staffers has been reduced from nine to five — currently retained are columnist Christina Binkley and editor Lisa Bannon; the seven other employees — including Teri Agins, Rachel Dodes, and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, who generally writes the newspaper's must-read Heard on the Runway blog — have all been let go effective at the end of March and asked to reapply for the three remaining positions in the bureau.
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>> Even icons aren't safe anymore.  In late December, Village Voice laid off 30-year veteran and fashion writer Lynn Yaeger — she's since been picked up to blog for New York magazine during Fashion Week — and now, the Wall Street Journal has dismissed 23-year veteran Teri Agins as part of a decision to close its fashion and retail bureau.

The number of staffers has been reduced from nine to five — currently retained are columnist Christina Binkley and editor Lisa Bannon; the seven other employees — including Teri Agins, Rachel Dodes, and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, who generally writes the newspaper's must-read Heard on the Runway blog — have all been let go effective at the end of March and asked to reapply for the three remaining positions in the bureau.

All WSJ.'s fault? »

In the News: Farms Sprout in Suburbia
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In the News: Farms Sprout in Suburbia

The Wall Street Journal's "Green Acres II: When Neighbors Become Farmers" reports that a growing number of Americans are "turning grass into edible greens and maybe even greenbacks," by growing food in their front and backyards.
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The Wall Street Journal's "Green Acres II: When Neighbors Become Farmers" reports that a growing number of Americans are "turning grass into edible greens and maybe even greenbacks," by growing food in their front and backyards. Since 2006, in Boulder, CO, school-bus driver Kipp Nash has "uprooted his backyard and the front or backyards of eight of his Boulder neighbors," and spent his afternoons "planting, watering, and tending" these minifarms, growing vegetables like tomatoes, bok choy, garlic, and beets. Although not everyone in the neighborhood finds this suburban farming aesthetically pleasing, particularly not during the Winter months, the locally-grown food market has grown, leaving yard farmers with an opportunity to sell to nearby restaurants and other neighbors. Since land is expensive, and nearly a third of residential water goes to landscaping, the financial advantages of suburban farming are clear. But, environmentalists also support it because it "cuts the distance — and the carbon dioxide — needed to get food from farm to consumer." To see a video on the topic, read more