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...sometimes you don't. Rare among fashion's top brass is Patrizio Bertelli of Prada Group, who does not have an M.B.A., uses only Italian in a multilingual peer group and has a fiery temperament. Bertelli has proved brilliant at steering the Prada and Miu Miu brands with his wife Miuccia Prada. But acquisitions have been rockier. Following a brief honeymoon period after Prada Group acquired the majority stake in Jil Sander, the eponymous designer walked, returned, then walked for good in 2004, to be replaced by Raf Simons. (The Jil Sander company was sold earlier this year...
...last week, Helmut Lang, the Austrian-born ready-to-wear designer and reigning minimalist of the '90s, resigned from his own company, which is owned by the Prada Group. The move ended a feud with Prada CEO Patrizio Bertelli over how to reverse losses at Lang's line. In the mid-'90s, Lang's sales were as high as $100 million. When he sold a 51% stake in his namesake brand in 1999, Lang touted Bertelli as a guy who "understands the culture of a high-end product," and said, "His line is very, very well managed." Bertelli, who later...
Three and a half years ago, minimalist designer Jil Sander stormed out of her fashion house after taking umbrage at the dictatorial ways of Prada CEO Patrizio Bertelli, who bought her company in 1999. In May, four months after her noncompete clause expired, Sander returned to the fashion house she founded when she was just 24. With sales at Jil Sander flat in 2002, it was good news for Bertelli. TIME's Lauren Goldstein caught up with Sander at the Milan men's shows, where she was unveiling her first collection since coming home...
...female" professions tend to offer more flexible hours. Ron Patrizio, 43, a biotech-firm sales rep in Central Florida, got sick of his old routine. He spent much of his time wining and dining doctors, hoping they would prescribe his firm's drugs. He made as much as $67,000 a year, and constantly accompanied clients to operas and hockey games. "But you have no life," he says. "You live and die by how many vials of insulin you sell that month. They expected you to schmooze 24-7." On a whim, he took a class in massage therapy...
Many men who enter female-dominated fields endure winks, nudges and misunderstandings. "My parents thought I was gay," says massage therapist Patrizio. In child care, some of the concerns are so serious as to harm job prospects; some nanny-placement agencies refuse to consider men, for fear of hiring a pedophile or turning off parents. But in many cities, parents with hectic schedules and energetic boys are increasingly asking for male nannies. "I have a larger demand than the pool of available male nannies," says Cliff Greenhouse, president of the Pavillion Agency in New York City, which has placed three...