ABSTRACT.EXTRACT

There were any number of reasons that Bailey, the creative director of Burberry, might not wish a reporter to see his flat that day. It might be messy. Or, maybe, Bailey knew how it would look — how he would look — to have the hub of his private life presented as a kind of totem for his success at Burberry, which had just reported record profits of $167 million on sales of $1.2 billion.