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...hiding them in boxes. In the 15 years since she won Warnaco in a hostile buyout, Wachner has used that aggressive style to remake the dowdy $600 million manufacturer of women's undergarments into a $2.5 billion apparel powerhouse, owner of a stylish collection of brand licenses that includes Calvin Klein, Speedo and Chaps by Ralph Lauren. All that hard work helped make Wachner one of the first women to run a FORTUNE 500 company and a top-paid CEO. Her cozy board of directors has regularly awarded her millions of dollars in annual salary and stock. Everything...
...very public complete dressing-down. Saddled with some $3 billion in debt and liabilities from Wachner's acquisition spree and stock buybacks, Warnaco filed for bankruptcy protection. Wachner's collection of fashion brands suddenly doesn't look too flattering. The fallout from a tabloid-headlined legal tussle with Calvin Klein, not to mention a slumping retail economy, adds another wrinkle...
...provoke a visceral reaction in anyone anymore. But French does it, over and over again. The first story, "Mrs. O'Reilly's Class," sets the tone in the first panel. A grade-school girl, with gaping holes where her front baby-teeth were, whispers to her friend, "Ew, Calvin puts graham crackers in his milk and then he drinks it." Panel two: an alien-looking Calvin with sludge all over his mouth says...
...part of a community. To earn money form Nuala is not really my interest. Yoga ties in with my antismoking work - which is all about raising consciousness and awareness. And I've had to represent so many things in my life, " says the Maybelline spokesperson and the face of Calvin Klein's Eternity perfume. "I don't have a problem representing yoga...
Then there's the vanity issue. "I have a real love-hate relationship with my hearing aids. I wear them because I need them. But they're clunky, they're ugly, they look prosthetic," says Battat of SHHH. "I'm longing for Calvin Klein to start designing hearing aids." Many people who have tried hearing aids before the technology surge of the past 10 years found the discomfort and embarrassment of wearing them outweighed the benefit they provided. Bad experience can be contagious as well. "In audiology we say that if someone likes their hearing aids, they tell five people...