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...School of Science and Fordham University, also in the Bronx--the rest may result from the fact that early in her career, she saw "women in action." Says Bravo: "In cosmetics, which is where I particularly grew up, we had these wonderful role models. Estee Lauder, Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden are all women who created companies." Clinique's Phillips "hired all women," Bravo says. "Her top lieutenants were female. If you've been given this road map and you see that others have gone before you and achieved, you never have in your mind the notion of failure...
...give the $2.7 billion-a-year flagship--which was losing ground as the No. 1 cosmetics brand in the prestige category and whose core customer had crept up into the fortysomething age range--an image makeover. She lobbied successfully to bring on Murphy as a spokeswoman alongside veteran Elizabeth Hurley, signed Ethiopian-born Liya Kebede to the company's first major contract with a black model and replaced brand lensman Steven Meisel with Mario Testino, whose naturalistic aesthetic seemed more suited to the times. And she stuck with the same small cadre of creatives for each campaign. "We used...
With her black Balenciaga pants, black Hussein Chalayan top and punkish hairstyle, Elizabeth Pearce doesn't look like a hard-driving attorney. Yet Betsy, as she likes to be called, is often the first person a designer contacts when it's time to sign a contract. She represented Alexander McQueen when he left Givenchy and sold a majority stake in his company to the Gucci Group. She handled the contracts for Lars Nilsson and Rick Owens at Nina Ricci and Revillon, respectively, and is representing architect Thomas Juul-Hansen in a deal to design stores for jeweler David Yurman...
...Elizabeth Biondi wants to be a matchmaker. After a devastating breakup with a boyfriend last summer, the Detroit social worker decided to channel her romantic energy into something constructive. She had always enjoyed setting friends up on dates--why not strangers? So late last month Biondi, 25, hopped on a plane to New York City and enrolled in matchmaking school...
Summers met with 15 student leaders in December to discuss the values they hoped to see reflected by the next dean, said Elizabeth J. Carr, a mid-career professional studying...