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...anyone can change that, it's John Bartlett. The first American designer trained specifically in menswear who has attracted a significant following since Ralph Lauren, he's at the start of what critics and retailers are predicting will be a big, bold career. His sexy-but-cerebral aesthetic is catching on with customers outside his traditionally gay following. Already the plucky designs by this graduate of Harvard and the Fashion Institute of Technology have caught the eye of Italian manufacturing giant Genny Holdings SpA, which snapped up the 34-year-old Bartlett for a licensing deal last year after...
...Italian sugar parents have also enabled Bartlett, who is based in New York City, to branch out into womenswear, which he started just last year but which already, he says, does four or five times the business of his men's line. This is partly because as a bona fide all-American, good-looking, young and talented man in the fashion industry, Bartlett attracts hype the way linen attracts wrinkles. And hype sells clothes. But it's also partly because the man has an eye. He hasn't attracted big bucks yet. Revenues this year will be somewhere around...
Last week, Bartlett Tree Co. carefully dug up the tree by hand, had its roots bound in burlap and moved it to a corner of the backyard. Neighbors are waiting to see if the tree will indeed survive...
...Bartlett, 70, has deeply conservative political beliefs and a background in engineering and medical science. He invented life-support equipment for pilots and astronauts before becoming a politician. And in Congress he has supported funding for NASA and nuclear-power technology. Given the district's political conservatism, he remains a favorite...
BORN: Feb. 25, 1952, Bay City EDUCATION: Saginaw Valley State College, B.A., 1974 FAMILY: Wife, Vicki Bartlett RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Congressional aide POLITICAL CAREER: Michigan House, 1977-83, majority whip, 1979-83; Michigan Senate, 1983-92, U.S. House, 1992- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 775, Bay City...