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...Were the rumors that you were in discussions with Tom Ford and Domenico De Sole true...
...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...
...past century having come from women. So why is it that when you look at those ubiquitous lists of most recognized global brands, the names at the top inevitably are those of men? And why is it that when big creative jobs open up in fashion like Tom Ford's position at Gucci Group women need not apply...
...this that Burberry has so many women in positions of power. I think that's really more interesting than talking about one person," she says. But people are interested in Bravo, who in July topped the European executive-compensation list, having earned $9.2 million in 2002, surpassing Tom Ford and LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault (who remains France's richest man despite his $1.59 million take-home). So she agrees to set the record straight on some Bravo chatter. "No on the workaholic. If you're passionate about something, then it doesn't feel like work, does it?" She fine-tunes...
...about being kinder, to others and to ourselves. While style has entered every crevice of our lives and there is no stuffing it back in the closet, even Carson Kressley of Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is hardly Tom Ford when it comes to chic. But the show--which has been picked up by networks around the globe--works because Kressley's snappy banter is underscored with tolerance and generosity...