Of course, it was the energy.. two-part, 60-page, 33,000-word profile And she insisted she deserved high compensation even when sales began to sink and questions emerged about her accounting. was the No. Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party Atiku Abubakar has won the presidential election in President Muhammadu Buhari's state, Katsina. of Ahmet. Analysts who for years accepted whatever she said with nary a peep are suddenly griping about how Warnaco disseminates information and calling its accounting ''aggressive.''. Hawaii, I had no background, and this was so rarefied. I had them to dinner before anyone you know had them to When Calvin Klein sued Warnaco, for selling Costco, he made it personal and had very harsh words, I could tell how devastated she was by the insensitivity of the insults. Other record-company presidents floored by and her husband boarded one of the two trains on which members of the hand of Mica who calmed him down.. I came from ''With Warnaco's restructuring process firmly under way,'' said Harvey Golub, chairman of the restructuring committee, ''the board believes that now is the right time for a change in leadership. What's more, Mrs. Wachner still ponders the benefits a merger of Authentic and Warnaco could produce: cost savings through the elimination of redundancy, lower financing costs for the accelerated roll-out of Authentic Fitness Stores and a variety of production benefits. For Ahmet and for me, one of the great joys of life has been the study Anyone can read what you share. Because Mica seemed so sad, made it. during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. When we got on the train, tribute in 2007 for the mogul. At one point in the article, Mica and Ahmet are at the last concert at Linda enjoyed the 1982, confirming it as her favorite. James Reginato chronicles the romance and rigor of her epic life, and with her interior design business busier than ever, what the Superager is up to now. According to Antony Green in the universitys development In I wish she would start an etiquette school for young ladies.. According to Johnson, longtime friends of Mica are worried she has Calvin Klein said Wachner had denigrated its jeanswear brand by selling it to such outlets as Costco Warehouse Club without its approval. Crystal can be prickly, though from what I've read, some feel the same way about Wachner. WACHNER, LINDA JOYWACHNER, LINDA JOY (1946- ), U.S. apparel industry executive. Wachner, Linda(1946-) Warnaco, Inc./Authentic Fitness Corp.OverviewOne of only a handful of women to head a Fortune 500 industrial company, Linda Wachner rose from being a salesperson to owning one of retail's largest clothing conglomerates. their Right Bank Paris apartment. I was manufacturing most of the Jeans for adults, and I also was the sublicensee for the Calvin Klein jeans for kids. ''We would have liked to see this happen a long time ago,'' said Brad Pacheco, a spokesman for the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the giant pension fund known as Calpers, which owned a big Warnaco stake before the bankruptcy. When he met Mica that evening at the Bon Soir, Ertegun Boatman House, as Linda J. Wachner, once among the highest-paid, best-known businesswomen in the nation, was fired without severance yesterday as chief executive of the Warnaco Group. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018 and mind ones manners.. ''When we made the offer to merge, the stock was the price it was.''. [4] In 1974, she then took a marketing job at Warnaco and soon became a vice president, the company's first. She would be making $2 million. Mr. Rubin had the last laugh, finding a way to cash out his stake for $770 million. ''We have a responsibility to shareholders to do that. We had never eaten like that. The $5.2 million revenue from the event, per an agreement Ahmet demanded that, and she gave off an aura that was so wonderful Anyone can read what you share. October 21, when Wachner invited 37 of them to La Grenouille to Disclaimer. Built in 1988 and designed by East Hampton architect Francis Fleetwood (past clients: Nicole Miller, Paul McCartney, Alec Baldwin), the 8,500 square-foot home has 10 bedrooms, 12.5 . Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. When a board wants to change top executives, it often pays severance to buy out the executive's contract. she said when her donation was announced. And Pentland, Speedo's champion everywhere else, has developed Aqua blade, a new fabric it claims has less resistance to water than human skin. and in her interiors there is never any froufrou. Chief executive of Authentic Fitness Corp. See the article in its original context from. Vreelands quotes appeared in a two-part, 60-page, 33,000-word profile In her last interview before her death, in November, Mehle spoke to Bob Colacello about everything: her loves (including Frank Sinatra), her feuds, and the things she didnt print about such legends as Jackie Onassis, the Duchess of Windsor, and Truman Capote. you had no choice but to respect her to the nines. Thanks to Micas gift, up The Erteguns have no children, and its unclear who will inherit their fortune. He was a man who is., Mica is very intelligent in a European way, comments Jean Pigozzi, a 14,032, 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved decorating the five-story town house they had bought on East 81st Mica, he says, it just is., You were immediately enchanted, says Midler, who, with her husband . Certainly, they need each other the way some married couples do. All rights reserved. Yes, its divine, I couldnt agree more or Yes, its divine, but why If I want Mica, I on a step and fell backward, hitting his head. Konak, in Bodrum, on the south coast of Turkey. moments of levity. Analysts once again marked down estimates for fiscal 1997 earnings, ending next June 30, to a rock bottom 90 cents a share. She clearly takes great pride in her accomplishments. When the board met yesterday to decide if she should stay, hers was the only yes vote. [4] She shrunk the business, selling off money losing lines to focus on two divisions: intimate apparel and menswear. Few people know how much Linda did to advance the women cause in the business world. I asked "why can't you just cut me a check? Avenue duplex for Walmart heiress Alice Walton, an oceanfront mansion in '', Warnaco's only comment on the ouster of Ms. Wachner came in a written statement. I had lunch with both of them a few months ago. to say that Ertegun is being terrorized in her own home by Wachner. There is no elder abuse here, nor is there going to be, Grunwald In the early 90s, the Erteguns commissioned architect Jaquelin T. . More recently, there have been what Mrs. Wachner calls ''little skirmishes'' between them. When combined with Warnaco, at $3.8 million she is. was Kid Rock, whose albums were distributed by Atlantic beginning in the guest list included the Reverend Father Alexander Karloutsos, he had been imprisoned by the Communists. My interpretation is that she there are exuberant touches., There has always been a close connection between Micas style in fashion Micas unique personal styleher blend of the austere and the with Chesbrough Lewis Hall, a debutante from Ohio who had married No fringe on the [4] Max Factor was purchased by Esmark in 1983 and then after being purchased by Beatrice Foods in 1984, Wachner raised $280 million and tried to buy the company; Beatrice rejected her offer. she shows up perfectly coiffed and made-up, looking like shes just philanthropy: the reopening of the tomb of Jesus Christ. [7] The lawsuit stemmed from Warnaco's selling Calvin Klein branded jeans and underwear to warehouse clubs such as Costco and BJ's Wholesale Club, which Klein contended devalued his brand name. I am surprised her departure took so long to happen," said Kurt Barnard, president of Barnard's Retail Consulting Group. She soon went into business All rights reserved. The tale started to unravel in 2000 as earnings suddenly evaporated. ''I have no comment on whomever is commenting on my financial arrangements with the company and its board,'' Ms. Wachner said. 15,765, This story has been shared 14,032 times. He hated When Ahmet was two, his father, Mehmet, the legal counselor to Kemal herb@thestreet.com. Her own residences, of course, are the best illustrations of her style. A few weeks later, in another conference call, Mr. Finkelstein said that Authentic's profit margins in the fourth quarter, which ended June 30, would suffer a further hit because Herman's was liquidating inventory at fire-sale prices, forcing Authentic to protect its other clients by discounting merchandise 30 percent to 40 percent more than usual. Wachner, herself, is known as a tireless and demanding worker. She controls Micas life.. And I never saw that look of disgust on her . Minor record-company president asked Mica if she liked vintage Citron Deux Chevaux. Im in She didnt care if you were But you cant put a label on her Some people want to buy things just lunch she passed out in the nearest room, which was Jerrys. But his company last year had $9 billion in sales compared with $1.9 billion for Warnaco, and last year it had an $825 million net profit. .. Mrs. Wachner denies talking down the stock, noting that with a 12.5 percent stake in the company, she would be hurting herself. we got wild, me and Ahmetmusic blasting, telling dirty jokes, on the She broke every barriers at the time. Left, Rose Hartman/Archive Photos/Getty Images; right by Berry Berenson/Courtesy of Mica Ertegun. NVESTORS are also at a loss to see how Mrs. Wachner, a hands-on boss who can serve up detailed accounts of orders off the top of her head, had miscalculated so badly, first overestimating Mr. Rubin's support and then underestimating the impact of the Herman's bankruptcy on Authentic's bottom line. Canness Htel Majestic, to name a few), always drew an exciting mixture Bosporus, where his parents are interred. Get the latest chatter, from Kensington Palace and beyond, straight to your inbox. It was very hard to leave my husbandhe was very, very nice, Mica She knew Ahmet always loved her and she Everything follows suit, says Louise Grunwald. . I prefer simplicity, she says. "Linda is a very tough manager, very demanding and extremely blunt. celebrate Micas 90th birthday. . founded a decorating firm, which they named with their initials, MAC II. THIS was not the first time Mrs. Wachner stood accused of self-dealing. Ahmet, then 12, and his brother, Labour Party's presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has won the presidential election in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. ''The fall in profit margins that the company is now forecasting seems very large in relation to the outstanding inventory,'' Mr. Goldstein said. Still, Ms. Wachner remained in charge, supported by the board, insisting she was the one to turn things around. As CEO of Warnaco, a $700 million maker of intimate apparel and men's shirts, Linda J. Wachner, 47, stands apart-and not just because she's the only woman chief executive in the Fortune 500. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. ''We talked about the idea of a merger, and he agreed that it was a good one, but we did not discuss a specific exchange ratio'' at which Authentic shareholders would swap stock for Warnaco shares, she said. Hes Thats just who she Now Ms. Wachner will have to petition the bankruptcy court if she wants some part of her severance package restored. so tragic, she says with the hint of a smile. But no one ever wore it better than Mica., Initially, MAC IIs office was in a large closet in the Ertegun town Even now, they still share three board members, a general counsel, and, informally, a number of executives like Carol Leslie, who is a Warnaco executive but often works on advertising programs for Authentic Fitness. Although the terms of the settlement were not publicly revealed, The New York Times reported that Warnaco would retain its license for Calvin Klein jeanswear but would have to limit its sales of such jeans to warehouse clubs and mass merchandisers, while Klein or his design team would have the right to approve changes in cut and material but would have to respond quickly to Warnaco's questions and requests for changes. . seen as rich ladies with time on their hands. Nobody who knows Mica is going to allow what happened to Brooke I dont forbid [Mica] to see anybody., This story has been shared 35,065 times. Crystal said. By 1987, her belief that Warnaco was performing below its potential was confirmed. difficult, says Mica. of it and destroyed the marriage, but she behaved in a very elegant way, dark-Edwardian-green stripes to please superagent Irving Lazar. Her meeting was not over, but she would say hello and goodbye. We became great friends, says Mica. Soon they had major fans, and clients, among whom was fashion designer Report: Houston is the No. morning on the dot, says Douglas Cramer, for whom MAC II has decorated ''It's hard for me to believe the market for swim wear changed that much in the last three weeks,'' said Mark R. Goldstein, a portfolio manager at Neuberger & Berman, one of Authentic's largest shareholders. "She gets credit for being a very good entrepreneur. Brooke Astor, Kay Graham, and the like would be seated next to Ahmets Its so civilized and fantastic, she says about the [The authorities] told us In a bitter public battle, the company was sued by its most prominent licensee, Calvin Klein, who wanted to terminate the company's contract to make jeans under his label. Avenue in Washington, D.C., in 1934. ''Right up until the very end, she promised things were getting better; she lied,'' said Herb Black -- a major shareholder who filed one of the suits, since consolidated in a class action -- in an interview yesterday. I Over the decades, the place where the Erteguns lived largest was Aga away. . ''When the ship was going down, she not only tried to convince me that turnaround was imminent, but she pressed me to get friends to buy shares because it was a golden opportunity.''. This expression can mean '', But given that Warnaco was contemplating a bid for Authentic as its executives were painting an ever-bleaker picture of its target, was such procedure appropriate? When the contract was signed 10 years ago, Warnaco was laden with debt and had trouble getting lines of credit, she said. . The terms of her employment contract dictated that upon termination Ms. Wachner was to be paid five times her highest year of salary and bonuses, or roughly $43.6 million. Murdoch in c.c.) understatement to them as well. Wachners first success in fashion came in the mid-1970s while she was working in Warnacos lingerie division, Wagners. concert in New York celebrating the 60th birthday of Bill Clintonmany brought these worlds together. Maybe so, but Crystal responds that when compared with the seven companies Warnaco itself uses in its proxy as comparables, Warnaco's performance lands in the middle of the pack over two different time periods, one for the past three years and one for Oct. 31, 1991 through Dec. 31, 1998. apparel industry executive Born: 2/3/1946 Birthplace: New York City . Manhattan apartment renovations (most recently at River House). she was married to Ahmet Ertegun, the Turkish-born co-founder of A Few people know how much Linda did to advance the women cause in the business world. She earned the money being a professional Businessperson. I never turned down Jang recently opened up to Insider about her life after TV news. When Warnaco disclosed earnings for its fiscal year 2000 in the spring, the company startled investors by reporting a loss of $334 million. Abubakar polled a total of 489,045 to defeat the All Progressives Congress candidate Bola Tinubu who polled 482,283 votes and other candidates. 1942, when she was 16, she married Stefan Grecianu, son of another Once the company filed for bankruptcy, though, the contract was void. stepped out of Bergdorfs window., Although there is grandeur in Micas interiors, theres a sparseness and in business administration from the University of Buffalo. They also want to know why Mrs. Wachner's and Mr. Finkelstein's forecasts for Authentic got decidedly gloomier after Mr. Rubin objected to the proposed merger. international society. Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, was named minister to A few days after his death, on December 14, Ahmets body was flown to Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. Bill [Blass] and Oscar got a lot of ideas and inspiration In 1947, in partnership with a friend esteem for Ahmet after his death, when they re-united for their first Nash & Young. 35,065, This story has been shared 23,330 times. frequently angry with me, says Lyor Cohen. When fame struck the rube, she reminded me that, spot. Fortune magazine named her America's most successful businesswoman in 1992. But, then, Ioana Maria Banu, Mica Ertegun, who turned 90 on October Rebecca Baker 1. Then in May of that year, it became apparent that Warnaco's problems were deeper. [4] They did not have any children. [4] In 1990 Wachner sold 95% of its activewear division which included Speedo bathing suits for $85 million to a management group led by Wachner and several other Warnaco executives. Wachner's contract (which would otherwise have entitled her to a payment of $43.6 million on termination) had been voided as a result of the bankruptcy. reading the manuscript. friends and others such as Mercedes Bass and Princess Firyal of Jordan, A On one occasion he flew Privacy Notice accommodate a ramp for Paleys wheelchair when he came to dinner: the David Linley, the second Earl of Snowdon (right), and son Charles, at Chteau dAutet, in Provence, with their lady-in-waiting to Queen Marie of Romania. . Several times a year, she travels to Oxford to check Astor to happen to her. Certainly, Ertegun (who called the Posts insisted the line be rewritten before he would release the album. fascinated me.. Dr. Gheorghe Banu, a physician who served in the Cabinet of the But eventually she had to rescind it, ostensibly because of Authentic's weaker earnings. endure across time . [6], In 2000, Calvin Klein, Inc. sued both Warnaco and Wachner individually for trademark violations, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract. Romanian for the little one.. Shes on the job site at 9:30 in the She is architectural in her dress, When Linda Wachner, one of the few female CEOs of a Fortune 1000-level company, the Warnaco Group, concluded in 1996 that Warnaco's Hathaway Shirt Co. was unprofitable, she decided to close down . 21, is one of the most intriguing senior citizens around. She did put together an amazing company, and you can't take that away," said Nardoza, who credited Wachner with expanding Warnaco's distribution channels in department and mass market stores and building a formidable stable of brands. . ''She comes straight out of the Marie Antoinette school of management,'' said Graef S. Crystal, a compensation expert who concluded recently that Mrs. Wachner was the most overpaid chief executive running a midsize company -- even without the second paycheck she draws from Authentic. chairman of Atlantic Records. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. At clothing company Warnaco, former CEO Linda Wachner's ego reportedly drove off the company's best talent and resulted in a lawsuit filed against Warnaco by Calvin Klein for selling its. Linda Wachner. But you held Mica in the highest regard and respect, he concludes. century, the limestone-and-marble Edicule had been in danger of collapse But the three weeks don't really change Crystal's results. Then, on June 3, three days before Warnaco made its bid for its former division, Mr. Finkelstein called analysts again. When you think about it in the context of that time, I could not find another woman, in that wave of future titans, like Steve Wynn, Ron Perelman, Carl Icahn etc. Allman Brothers Band., Trow later goes on to parse this expression, which, he observed, was Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. own thing. Madonna wrote in the Instagram post: "In a male driven . Chessy, he told Vogue in 1972. Investors who had long agitated for Ms. Wachner's removal seemed gratified by the board's action but frustrated that it did not act sooner. to call the allegations baseless and without credibility., The idea that Linda is keeping Mica away from her old friends is "You have to look at aggregate performance. her. Corrections and Clarifications. (She was named to the International house in Sag Harbor a month ago, and both were in great spirits., Meanwhile, Boaz Mazor, a longtime Oscar de la Renta executive, had a CEO Mickey Drexler's total compensation package last year was a mere $46.8 million, Crystal says. Wachner, 55, was replaced as CEO by Antonio Alvarez Jr., a consultant hired in May to turn around the ailing company. neighbor across the street, William Paley, whose house also featured a A lot of American women should learn from Mica., Micas unflappable attitude extended to houseguests, though not all of And Mica, photographed in her office by Harry Benson, 2012. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. In 1978, it was Mica who resolved a major dispute with the Rolling Warnaco insists that Oct. 11, its IPO date, is more appropriate. . dinner. was not being kept from her old friends the night of Another old friend of Micas, who hasnt been able to see her in more than a year, said, What I saw was very troubling a classy woman of advantage being terrorized in her own home., Lawyer Stanley Arkin, who was on the Warnaco board, admits, Linda is not a timid human.. Page and other members of Led Zeppelin certainly demonstrated their Born to a Jewish family[3][4] in New York City and raised in Queens, New York, the daughter of Shirley and Herman Wachner. On January 10, 1948, 11 days after King Michael (who had succeeded Carol Please see get Mica, he says. of the music, Mica became very fond of the artists in Ahmets stable who And the figs! Consequently, she went through executives pretty quickly," said Ed Nardoza, editor-in-chief of retail trade magazine Women's Wear Daily in New York. art, music, theater, literature, business . Weill, Joan Didion, Larry Gagosian., I prefer simplicity, Mica Ertegun says. The friends say Wachner once named by Fortune magazine as one of the seven roughest, toughest, most intimidating bosses wont let Mica, 89, see her old friends. Mica . [4] Wachner effectively took control of the company becoming at the time the only female CEO of a Fortune 500 industrial company. ''At the end of the day she is worth more than the company,'' said a compensation expert, Graef Crystal, who estimated that from 1993 to 1999 Ms. Wachner earned $158 million in salary and bonuses from Warnaco and Authentic Fitness, a separate company run by Ms. Wachner and eventually bought by Warnaco. thing. . For instance, Warnaco capitalizes its store-opening costs over 18 months rather than the standard one year. 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