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Women wield enormous spending power, influencing almost 80% of all consumer decisions in America. But it's not just the Giseles and Chanels of the world who influence what we buy or the way we look. Behind the scenes, women like Margareta van den Bosch, design director of the Swedish fashion chain H&M, have a hand in the look of more than 500 million pieces of clothing a year. Wildly popular entertainers like the Olsen sisters oversee a billion-dollar business that includes fashion and beauty products...
...last fall, when mod miniskirts began to sell, H&M tripled the original order on a black wool mini and distributed it to all markets instead of just a handful of key stores. "But we needed to have our customers' response," says H&M design director Margareta van den Bosch. "We don't trust the runway...
...nerve center of H&M's design operation, the so-called White Room in the company's Stockholm headquarters, is where Van den Bosch, 61, holds forth when she's not scouring flea markets in London or fabric fairs in Paris. She took the top design job at H&M in 1987 and functions more as a soft-spoken den mother--as opposed to an edict-issuing tyrant--to her team of 90 designers (mostly women...
ANDREW GILLIGAN BBC correspondent He claimed that Kelly, in their May 22 meeting, immediately volunteered Campbell as the dark force behind "sexing up" the dossier. But Olivia Bosch, a friend of Kelly's, said Kelly had told her he did no such thing, and that Gilligan had played a "name game" trying to get him to confirm various people...
...budget by 2006, as promised. If the Meisterbrief ever is abolished, analysts say, some new businesses may open in the short term. But their chances of survival are slim. "Many will be based on unsound foundations without the managerial knowledge taught in the master's courses," says Gerhard Bosch, vice president of the Institute for Labor and Technology in Gelsenkirchen. "A spate of bankruptcies will be the consequence." Bosch also fears that few of these new and probably under-capitalized handicraft businesses will invest in vocational training, thus endangering the future of the crafts tradition itself. And Heinz Putzhammer...