“We’re thrilled to welcome Paul Deneve to Apple,” spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said. “He’ll be working on special projects as a vice president reporting directly to Tim Cook.”
Special projects, eh.
Apple hires former Yves Saint Laurent CEO
“We’re thrilled to welcome Paul Deneve to Apple,” spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said. “He’ll be working on special projects as a vice president reporting directly to Tim Cook.”
Special projects, eh.
Wearables
…And so begins the future of wearable tech.
Wearable, shmearable. They need this guy to spruce up the iPod socks 😉
The Michael Brown (of Katrina fame) of the tech world… REAL BAD hire…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-02/apple-hires-yves-st-laurent-ceo-for-special-projects.html?cmpid=yhoo
Also according to Bloomberg, Apple is also hiring Hulu LLC executive Pete Distad to help with negotiations to acquire content for Apple TV, two people familiar with the hire said today
Underwear.
Don’t be so sure. This guy comes from an accounting/auditing background, and his stints at those fashion houses have all been less than three years each. I don’t see him as having much of a design background.
And how did you arrive at that conclusion? It looks like he hasn’t been in the “tech world” since 1997. Beyond that, we don’t know what job they’ve hired him for, so how could he be a bad hire?