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...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...
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...
...nothing," he says, "just a little bit of hand slapping." Half a world away, Yang Rong manages the privately run Jinhua Asset Underwear Co., with a factory tucked into hills a few hundred kilometers from Shanghai that exports some of the world's sexiest lace bras. On his shop floor, surrounded by 200 young workers outfitted in pink kerchiefs and aprons, Yang points to the wall on which he has taped a laminated list of rules issued by Walt Disney Co., with which Asset Underwear contracts to make clothing featuring Disney characters. The list prohibits, among other things, indentured servitude...
Time: 11:19:17 a.m.—Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers were sent to Cabot House to investigate a report of a male in a third-floor ladies’ restroom. The suspect fled the building. A search of the area proved negative. Police described the suspect as a male in his 20s, wearing dark blue jeans, an olive-green hooded sweatshirt and a blue bandana around his face...
...Bulldogs’ recent turnaround began at the defensive end of the floor. Yale has held its last four opponents to an average of 51.75 points per game and 37.7-percent shooting from the floor. The Bulldogs’ most impressive defensive performance came last Saturday, as it held Cornell to just 48 points—half of the total the Big Red had put up the night before in a win at Brown...