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...hotter than Tory Burch loafers. It’s a T-shirt trend. I was first confronted with it the other day as I groggily stumbled to Peet’s for an early morning coffee. Typing an e-mail as I walked along, I nearly collided with a boy in a white T-shirt that read “HIV-Positive” in big, purple, block print. I looked up at him and mumbled some apology...
...real estate," says Baker. National Realty & Development Corp., the original family business Robert Baker started and continues to own with Richard, is one of the largest, privately held companies, with more than 20 million sq. ft. (1.86 million sq m) of shopping centers and retail properties. As a young boy, Richard would spend weekends with his father driving around looking at real estate and construction sites, preparing to delve into the family business. "I have a lifetime of experience, not as a shopper but as someone who develops retail opportunities," says Baker...
That focus landed Hermann at the house of eccentric wunderkind Galliano in 1996 and eventually at Dior. "We were le carpe and le lapin," she says, laughing at the French image of the classic odd couple, the fish and the rabbit. "He was the British boy, and I was the French bourgeois girl. But we respected the same values...
...storybook career, building a thriving bridal, fashion and housewares empire, but to hear her tell it, she would just as soon have eloped. "I had always wanted to be a designer, and my father said, 'How do you know you have what it takes to be in fashion?' And, boy, was I determined. And I showed him. And I've lived to regret it," she says, and then tops the statement off with a gleeful laugh. Wang is kidding, of course. Her sharp, native--New Yorker wit and sarcasm don't stay hidden under the hem for long...
...atelier, Wang comes across like the overachiever who is also a rebel, the A student who ditches class more than once in a while. She has delicate Asian features but packs a wallop of American wit. Her look is feminine and slight, yet she dresses, she says, "like a boy." (Today, it's Yohji Yamamoto black leggings, black T shirt, charcoal ribbed cashmere sweater and a phenomenally oversize jeweled cross.) Partway through college at Sarah Lawrence, she left for Paris, presumably to study, but it was really to hang out with her then boyfriend, an Olympic champion. She waited...