He was reportedly very heated with one of his closest assistants, Executive Assistant Chief Joe Breshears.
Mr. Armani's closest assistants are his niece, Silvana Armani, and, for men's wear, his longtime partner, Pantaleo Dell'orco, both of whom are about 60. "Sì, sì," he said, "Oh, it's a constant fight".
One night, quite late, I watched Mr. Galliano and his closest assistants — Bill Gaytten and the late Steven Robinson — do fittings for a collection inspired, improbably perhaps, by ancient Egyptian ladies and '50s fashion goddesses.
Mr. Saint Laurent thanked, too, his closest assistants, Anne-Marie Munoz and Loulou de la Falaise, who served not only as muses but were also part of his entourage when he made the scene in the 1970's in Paris and Marrakesh -- in fact, helped to define that era's delirium and decadence.
"It's personally Putin and his closest assistants basically leading this case," he said.
Kicking things off is a select handful of self-portraits from Keiichi Nitta, one of Terry Richardson's closest assistants for years, until he up and moved to Japan.
Before the war, Mr. Gowland married Alice Adams, who worked as his close assistant his entire career.
He worked for eight years as a creative director and close assistant to its founder and president, Leo Burnett.
Mediapart claimed that Gérald Gérin, a close assistant to Le Pen who has been described as his butler and who is currently a Front National regional councillor, had in 2008 become the legal beneficiary of a trust based in the British Virgin Islands.
