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...tiny, busy, with a predilection for berets and aviator-style glasses?is the archetypal stage mother, Hong Kong-style. She is manager, contract-signer and accountant. She is clearly pleased with CoCo's success, though she says she would also be happy if her daughter was in medical school. Mom is uncompromising about manners and decorum, both personal and professional. CoCo says she wasn't allowed to talk to boys until she was 18. But her decorum has won her fans in every corner of Asia. At a concert in the Chinese city of Wuhan, 55,000 people showed...
Stella McCartney Like any matriculant of the famous fashion program at London's Central St. Martin's School of Art and Design, Stella McCartney asked a few of her friends to model for her 1995 graduate show. As Mom and Dad beamed with pride - Dad being former Beatle Paul McCartney - Stella's friends took the stage: Kate Moss had flown in from New York and Naomi Campbell from Berlin. The collection was well-received, and she set up her own company. Two years later when the French house of Chloé rang and asked if she'd succeed Karl Lagerfeld...
...watch industry insiders. Simone Bédat has been in the watch buiness for some 40 years. She co-founded the Raymond Weil brand. But when her son Christian came of age she sold her stake to help him launch Bédat & Co. Now Christian designs and mom supervises. The five-year-old company does about $12 million in sales. Christian says the Gucci deal gives them protection: "It's a jungle out there...
...love at first byte. "I couldn't get enough," he says. "As soon as I sat down at it, I got it." He skipped lunch hours and stayed late after school to get a turn at the terminal. Neither of his parents?his dad is a machinist, his mom a store clerk?had even used a typewriter. Hungry for more than he could learn in his small hometown, Eyestrain went to Manila at age 17 to attend Systems Technology Institute, a technical college that offers low-cost programming courses. The classes were disappointing: Eyestrain found that he knew more than...
When Fannie Smith, 82, was found to have lung cancer two years ago, her son Ray had nightmarish visions of commuting weekly between his home in Denver and his mother's place in Linden, N.J. "Mom wasn't going to move, and she didn't want to go to a nursing home," the 59-year-old financial adviser recalls. But all kinds of problems, from fixing the hot-water heater to lining up 24-hour health care for her, suddenly became his responsibility. "How do you handle all that from 1,800 miles away?" he wondered. "You just...