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...Bergdorf Goodman, Barneys, Geminola, which has primarily vintage pieces that have been redyed. I love Kirna Zabete and the vintage store What Comes Around Goes Around. [But] I am not a huge shopper...
...displaying corporation-altering prescience and chutzpah long before Tom Ford made them fashionable. As president of Saks in the '90s, she brought labels like Gucci, Jil Sander and Prada onto the selling floor, a move that began the store's return to the luxury league of Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. As a cosmetics buyer at Macy's in the early '80s, Bravo noted the sudden proliferation of fuchsia in fashion. She called Carol Phillips, co-founder and then head of Clinique. "I said, 'This pink is wildly popular. It's everywhere in the clothing. We don't have...
...bags from a potato-sack manufacturer found in the Yellow Pages. "One [fabric supplier] said to me, 'Honey, you look like a nice girl,'" Spade recalls. "'You don't want to get into the business. Settle down.'" Instead, Spade rocketed into the fashion elite, as Barneys and Bergdorf Goodman began selling her nylon totes. She soon opened her own boutiques in the U.S. and Japan. In 1997 she launched a men's line designed by Andy. Two years later, the Spades sold 56% of their business to Neiman Marcus for $33.6 million, and partnered with Estee Lauder...
...says Cherry. “They can be very creative—but that’s not necessarily a good thing.” Gollogly, on the other hand, has a hidden traditional influence. Her godmother works as a personal shopper at New York’s Bergdorf Goodman. “I take her advice,” Gollogly admits...
...with so much influence--Donna Karan and Nautica are still clients--Laird is remarkably humble. A native of Nacogdoches, Texas, he studied architecture in college but ended up with a degree in marketing. After following a girlfriend to New York City, Laird found a job selling shoes at Bergdorf Goodman, where he met adman Arnell. And, well, you know the story: resume, junior-account-executive job. Now Madonna and Missy. What next? "We're only just beginning," Laird says. "We have so much more work to do." --By Kate Betts