A la mode
After the success of the Zooop http://www.gizmag.co.uk/go/5844/ Coqueline Courreges is now designing a hydrogen car. She is the most amazing woman. She must be about 70 now but is full of energy and a true creative spirit. I have visited her offices above her shop in Paris. The boardroom is floored with bright white tiles. The walls are also dazzling white, one which a splash of brilliant green over it, the other with a splash of dashing pink, the ceiling is mirrored and the boardroom table and chairs are made of transparent plastic.
At one time she was considering floating her fashion house. Goldman Sachs came over to discuss it and they gave her their considered value of the company. She said, “Please give me a few minutes to think about it” and she got on her silver kick scooter and did a few laps around the table where they were sitting. Eventually she sat down again and proclaimed, “I am looking at all of you in your Hermes ties and Armani suits and I have come to the conclusion that you know nothing about fashion!”
posted by Whispering Walls at 9:30 am
3 Comments:
Gosh ! How do you meet all these exciting people ? It must be what they call the 'principle of attraction', or as I prefer to think of it 'birds of a feather flock together'.
You certainly seem to be of 'bright plumage' if these are the people you attract into your life. I will not pass comment on the mirrored ceilings ...but the transparent boardroom table is a complete no-no.
Just think, Winchester, how would you text your girl chums to fix up a coffee and some retail therapy during deadly dull presentations if you couldn't hide your mobile under the table.
I have a bit of a naughty secret. If someone is talking patronising, condescending nonsense at a meeting I find it very therapeutic to give them a very rude sign but from underneath the table. It makes me feel so much better, even if it is very ill-mannered - but sometimes one has to release these feelings.
I can agree with your friend about the Armani suits, but think she was a little harsh about Hermes ties.
Not cutting edge fashion, but at least they are French and they make an effort - now what would she have made of the Duchamps ties favoured by Jon Snow, Parky and Iain Dale ?
Maybe she would have just cut them in two and attached them to the handlebars of the scooter. Cheerio.
You must have a 'contacts book' like Martha Kearney ! Where do you find the time ? Will you be standing for the elected House of Lords ? Or whatever silly name they will come up for it ? I liked Simon Hoggart's point in the Guardian. Instead of being known as Lady Whisperer of Winchester, or Baroness Whisperer, it would be more likely for you to be a Member of the Revising Statutory Authority.
Or Winchester Whisperer, MRSA for short....
And something similar is?
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