All day Saturday, clients were ferried to Gabbana's house, where fitting rooms had been set up, with enormous mirrors imported from Milan.
Throughout the day, clients were unable to visit the Web site or exchange e-mail messages with the firm's bankers and traders.
And since everything is being dogfooded in 955 Dreams' baby Band Of The Day, clients can be sure things are tip top before they hit their users.
Until Friday, client statements had valued the securities at their cost to investors.
The 90-day client retention rate increased from 40%to53%3%.
(MindRDR, to be clear, is not a paid project and was not developed for any client; rather it's in the vein of other London-based creative agencies like UsTwo, where employees are encouraged to work on creative projects that are completely outside of their day-to-day client work).
With the second anniversary of MF Global's bankruptcy on Thursday, clients whose money seemed lost are closer to getting it back.
Under a partnership announced Monday, clients of Fidelity Investments will have access to stock offerings, including initial public offerings, by companies owned by the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
Sometimes an employee will leave a company because of unhappiness with day-to-day client work, rather than because of bosses or colleagues.
But, he added sharply, "at the end of the day, my clients are my clients.
One day a client answered the door in a pantsuit, mid conference call, and waved me into the bathroom.
