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...woman with a career who has personality, intelligence and who knows the world--someone like Burberry CEO Rose Marie Bravo, who doesn't wear Versace but she should. I also love Madeleine Albright. She has always impressed me. She's not beautiful; she doesn't have a great body; but she has a lot of charisma and a brain...
...dubs the transformation "doing what Gucci did, at Burberry," but Bravo was 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...
...these 12 pages, TIME STYLE & DESIGN profiles the 10 most powerful women in the fashion and beauty industries and also takes note of some of the rising stars who are carving out reputations for themselves and influencing bigger corporations. From Burberry CEO Rose Marie Bravo to avant-garde avatar Rei Kawakubo, the female voice in fashion is undeniable...
That Rose Marie Bravo recently finished reading Jane Austen's Persuasion--a fact she announces with an impassioned "Oh!" from her sofa on the 30th floor of the New York City offices of Burberry --is fitting. She has engaged in a grand-scale persuasion of her own of late that is widely considered a retail marvel...
...didn't quite know until I got there what I was going to uncover," says Bravo, 53. "It didn't take long to see that underneath the debris there was this beautiful, quality heritage. Of course, part of it was that the timing was right to restore. People were interested in it." The checks are now vaunted on ball gowns, bikinis and stilettos. There are fragrance and children's lines and sexy ad campaigns featuring chic Brits Kate Moss and Stella Tennant. The iconic trench coat, first designed in 1901 by Thomas Burberry as an army officer's raincoat, today...