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A Look That Conveys a Message To tour an assembly plant in Canada, Sergio Marchionne, the chief executive of Chrysler, wore
A Look That Conveys a Message To tour an assembly plant in Canada, Sergio Marchionne, the chief executive of Chrysler, wore
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2012-05-28
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A Look That Conveys a Message
To tour an assembly plant in Canada, Sergio Marchionne, the chief executive of Chrysler, wore a black sweater and a checked oxford shirt.
At the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Mr. Marchionne wore a black sweater and a checked oxford shirt. And at a Saturday night gala honoring Lee A. Iacocca in Los Angeles, he wore a black sweater and a checked oxford shirt.
Mr. Marchionne, who last year earned more than 5 million euros ($6.9 million) and owns luxury houses in three countries, has donned a monochromatic (单色的) wardrobe similar to that worn by other top-flight executives. He has discovered the power of dressing down, and not just on Fridays.
"The message he wanted to pass is not wearing a tie, not wearing a suit, means we are more flexible and what really matters is not the uniform but something else," said Cristiano Carlutti, the former head of used cars at Fiat, which Mr. Marchionne also heads.
Today, corporate executives have a wider choice of what to wear than ever before. Stylists and personal shoppers reserve exclusive clothes, Hong Kong tailors make office visits and silk ties from France can be delivered overnight.
Yet the simple personal uniform is being seen in some corner offices as the ultimate power suit. "I always used to feel sorry for them," David Wolfe, creative director of the trend-forecasting company the Doneger Group, said of the single-outfit executives. "Now I think they’re smart."
He added, "How do you stand out if everybody’s trendy? The only way is to be beyond the trend."
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook, wears hoodies and sneakers. Andrea Jung,chief executive of Avon Products, sticks with sleeveless close-fitting dresses — often red — and pearls. The television personality Simon Cowell and the fashion designer Roberto Cavalli wear jeans, T-shirts and black jackets.
Joe Scarborough, the host of MSNBC’s "Morning Joe", takes regular ribbings (笑话) about his day-in, day-out fleece (羊毛的) jacket and jeans. A Facebook group is campaigning for Michael Kors, a designer and judge on the show "Project Runway", to change his ensemble (also jeans, T-shirt and black jacket), which he has worn for nearly all eight seasons of the show.
Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, wears New Balance sneakers, Levi’s and black mock turtlenecks (高翻领衣), while Lawrence J. Ellison, the chief of Oracle, dons black mock turtlenecks, usually topped with a blazer.
The motivations vary, but every uniform sends a message. Mr. Scarborough, a Republican who is the host of a program on a left-leaning cable network, may be signaling that he is a "mellow (温和的), fleece-wearing Republican that Democrats love to like," wrote New York magazine. Mr. Jobs, by most accounts, prefers the ordinary clothe as a way to de-emphasize individuality in favor of promoting a collective approach at Apple. And Thierry Rautureau, a Seattle chef who tops every outfit with a hat, wears the distinctive style for branding purposes.
Mr. Wolfe, the fashion forecaster, switched to a single outfit last summer as a protest against how accessible trends had become.
"It is fashion snobbery (盲从) or elitism that made me think, ’I want to make sure people know I’m not just a player in a game that too many people are playing,’" he said.
While he used to go to work in "Tibetan Indian clothes, cowboy outfits, a baseball uniform one season, often street-cleaner jumpsuits and things like that," he said, he has altered his look in the last several months to wearing white L. L. Bean oxford shirts and Levi’s 501s every day.
"People are really coming to grips with the fact that the recession is the new normal. We’re not going to get over it and go back to a wild and crazy extravagant time right away. I think that’s starting to affect the way people are presenting themselves to the world at large, with a very conservative fashion approach," he said.
Some executives land on a statement piece that broadcasts their brand, as Mr. Rautureau did when he wore a soft hat to one of his restaurants.
"A great customer of mine was sitting at the first table, and looked at me, and went, ’Oh, the chef in the hat,’" he said. "I snapped my finger and went, ’Marketing, marketing, marketing.’"
Mr. Rautureau trademarked the chef-in-the-hat name, and has collected about 20 hats — straw, cowboy and felt — that he wears whenever he leaves his house. "It has been very successful in terms of, obviously, recognition and branding — I can tell you, everywhere I go, they know the guy in the hat, the chef in the hat," he said. "So it’s easy to be catchy."
Still, Mr. Rautureau concedes that he may have gotten too attached to his signature hat. After a fund-raiser in Cincinnati, he was mugged while walking back to his hotel, and a group of teenagers ran off with his hat.
"Now, most normal people would have run away and go to the hotel, which was only like two or three blocks away," Mr. Rautureau said. "Instead, I went back, and said I need my hat back. And of course that was a dumb move because we get in a fight and they take my wallet, and blah blah blah. That was the most dangerous move I’ve ever made, because of my hat."
For Mr. Jobs, the turtleneck-and-jeans outfit seems to be about reducing his persona to spotlight the product.
"He didn’t want any individual to kind of overshadow the brand, and that includes him," said Steve Chazin, a former Apple marketing executive, and the author of Marketing Apple. "He didn’t want people thinking he was special."
Mr. Marchionne’s outfits also seemed to carry a certain message, said Mr. Carlutti, the former Fiat executive.
"You have to understand that Fiat, before he joined the company, was very formal," he said, and Mr. Marchionne wanted to "break the formality", by replacing solid office doors with glass ones, for instance, and declining to dress up.
Of course, by sticking to sweaters and slacks, Mr. Marchionne basically ensured that everyone else would continue to wear suits, Mr. Carlutti said.
"The majority was afraid of seeming to copy the boss, so they stick to their normal dressing," he said. Indeed, when Mr. Carlutti had his job interview with Mr. Marchionne, he spent the morning debating what to wear.
"That was a big dilemma, because if you wear a tie, he may consider you too formal, too rigid," he said. "If you don’t wear a tie, he may think you try to imitate his casual style. So you never win, basically. In the end I wore a tie, which I usually don’t."
The auto chief is now spreading his style in his new city. In February, he met with the Detroit mayor, David Bing, to show Chrysler’s Super Bowl commercial, "Imported From Detroit". And he presented Mr. Bing, who usually dresses in suits, with a gift: a black sweater (no oxford shirt).
The mayor put on the sweater for a news conference the day he got it. But even though he admires Mr. Marchionne’s style, he has no plans to adopt it, said a spokeswoman, Karen Dumas, in an e-mail message.
"The mayor has his own style, with which he is very comfortable — tailored suits and custom, monogrammed shirts. It’s tried, true and has worked for him this long, so he doesn’t feel the need to switch up now," she said.
Cristiano Carlutti said he was in______when deciding the clothes for the job interview with Mr. Marchionne.
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答案
a big dilemma
解析
空前的in表明,本空应填一名词(短语)。题干中的deciding the clothes与倒数第五段提到的debating what to wear对应,the job interview with Mr.Marchionne与his job interview with Mr.Marchionne对应。倒数第四段Cristiano Carlutti提到他在debating what to wear时的感受:That was a big dilemma,也就是说,他处在a big dilemma当中,故答案为a big dilemma。
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