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...North American sales were $45 million last year, while worldwide sales totaled $250 million. In March, Mavi will make its mark on American soil with its own two-story, 500-sq-m flagship store in New York's Union Square. It is an unlikely success story. But Sait Akarlilar, the affable 63-year-old patriarch who created the brand in 1991, is nothing if not self-confident. Orphaned at an early age, as a teenager he worked as a seamster in a garment shop. By 19, he owned it. A workaholic of modest tastes, he began manufacturing jeans when Turkey...
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