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Robert Taylor, who ran Minnetonka, knew she had what he desperately needed. The Calvin Klein line had no marketing strategy, wretched relations with stores and a disgusted muse, Klein himself. In fact the designer refused to meet Burns for several months, but she went about her job anyway. To her...
For this she will need a free hand, but most observers think Leonard Lauder is ready to give it to her. There have been a couple of blowups, caused by the fact that Burns is tougher with stores than he is, but mostly, as an old-timer says, "Leonard gets...
Where does Burns get her own zip? "She has a crazy appetite for this business," says Phillips. She does. Julia Horowitz, a pal from Syracuse days, remembers a vacation they took a few years ago on Antigua: "Every day at 1 o'clock she would go into town and spend...
Horowitz also knows the quieter side of Burns. "My parents died 10 years ago," she says, "and afterward I really fell apart. Of all my family and friends, she was the one who hung in there." In fact Burns has had a couple of setbacks in life, both impossible to...
Frontier girl? New woman? As Burns sees it, a little of both. "Cripple Creek was a free-spirited place to grow up," she says. "Neither my mother nor the community ever revealed any prejudice to me, and I never saw any until I got to Syracuse." So what others may...