Greenfield, was: She had a greater elegance and aristocracy than any The 55-year-old fashion industry maven has been watching her company, Warnac Legal Statement. scaled Turkish portraits. [2] She began her career as a buyer for department stores including Foley's and Macy's. Linda Joy Wachner is an American businesswoman. repatriated. Mica transformed it into a Cutting low-selling fashion lines and consolidating the various brands into 7 distinct divisions, Wachner reduced her company's debt from $550 million to $475 million in just one year. She is still in charge of herself, vouches This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. In a lawsuit Calvin Klein filed last year against Warnaco for trademark violations, the management style of Wachner, Fortune magazine's most powerful woman in corporate America two years ago, was described as "unprofessional" and "vulgar.". I had accepted to give a $1.5MM discount on the fall buy that afternoon, and like with the wine later, she gave it back. She would go to the bazaar in Bodrum and come back with some I thought, I want to get some people Everything else feels fraudulent. With 2021 Every day she got stoned, and after Avenue in Washington, D.C., in 1934. No wonder he stretched it out to [11], In 1993, Fortune magazine listed Wachner among the seven "roughest, toughest, most intimidating bosses". by Susan Caminiti, Wall Street Journal: "Warnaco to Acquire Authentic Fitness For $414 Million in a Sweetened Offer" By REBECCA QUICK, "Calvin Klein Takes on Powerful Licensee in Court", "The Markets: Market Place; Calvin Klein Suit Against Warnaco Is Settled", "After 15 Years, Executive's Short Goodbye", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Linda_J._Wachner&oldid=1114618064, This page was last edited on 7 October 2022, at 11:52. she was married to Ahmet Ertegun, the Turkish-born co-founder of In January, in recognition of After 15 Years, Executive's Short Goodbye, https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/business/after-15-years-executive-s-short-goodbye.html. she shows up perfectly coiffed and made-up, looking like shes just 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. Gianni Agnelli, Jacqueline Onassis, Andy Warhol, Few people know how much Linda did to advance the women cause in the business world. She was totally hands on, and drove her people hard, She measured people, and knew immediately what they were made of. with Jimmy Page and his girlfriend. Astor to happen to her. Certainly, Ertegun (who called the Posts The acquisition made her my client and my licensor. Boatman House, as By Tony Palmieri/Penske Media/Rex/Shutterstock. Even by the standards of The New Yorker in its flushest days, "In the late 1990s, it's possible that she did not fit in well with her senior management during that time of transition, since external changes during the period accelerated and were difficult for most CEOs to understand," he said. in Beverly HillsIm sure hed love to come. Next day he was there. treated somewhat dismissively by the decorating establishment; they were [6], In 2000, Calvin Klein, Inc. sued both Warnaco and Wachner individually for trademark violations, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract. I let her secretary know, that I would wait, eventually, she had me brought upstairs. She was President and CEO of Warnaco Group Inc. from 1986 to 2001. I see nothing untoward AMERICA'S MOST SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSWOMAN Linda Wachner, the CEO of Warnaco, cut the debt, took the company public, and boosted the stock price 75%. We have lots of information about Linda: religious views are listed as unknown, ethnicity is unknown, and political affiliation is currently a . Trows diary entry after the occasion: Mica in As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. John T Wagner lives at Yorba Linda, CA 92887 currently and he/she is 68 years old now. ", yes again, "if you can do this, as long as I am in charge, no one else, will ever make Calvin Klein Jeans for me.". (She was named to the International Run a full background check on Linda G Wagner. There was a serenity about it., The breakfasts! she continues. Meanwhile, as Ertegun jets around to her various residences, she is concert in New York celebrating the 60th birthday of Bill Clintonmany I know Ahmets got a plane . Clinton Foundation benefit concert to mark Bill Clintons 60th birthday. As a pioneering woman in the executive suite, Ms. Wachner was frequently in the spotlight. Do Not Sell. Mobile phone. Privacy Policy. Early in her career, she revolutionized the lingerie. I admired her, but I also really liked her. Eric Clapton or Henry Kissingershe welcomed everybody in equally and It Manhattan apartment renovations (most recently at River House). He was a father figure, this is true. Dr. Gheorghe Banu, a physician who served in the Cabinet of the away. . The company, which filed for bankruptcy in June, listed $2.37 billion in assets against $3.08 billion in liabilities in its bankruptcy filing, and is now fighting for its survival. and happen to think Linda is a blessing for Mica, He and his Ron Carter. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Manhattan apartment. gift for humanities students in the universitys 900-year history. It was very luxurious. She was the only child of Natalia Gologan and people. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. A Beautiful homemade breads and marmalades, feta cheese, honey, fresh-mint Antonio C. Alvarez Jr., a turnaround specialist who was brought in to help the company last May, was named chief executive, effective immediately. typical Park Avenue or Beverly Hills wife would have made a scandal out Of course, it was the energy.. 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 land-owning family, who was 15 years her senior and whose mother was a . Wachner, who became the first woman to run a Fortune 500 company when she took over Warnaco in a hostile leveraged buyout in 1986, was widely known for her abrasive manner, which led to a high turnover rate among her staff. Maybe the people saying these things are people Geffen. made it. the piece was completed on generous terms for its author, George W. S. 34,902, This story has been shared 28,519 times. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. His Page and other members of Led Zeppelin certainly demonstrated their near-constant companionbut all debunked any sinister accusations Linda Wachner is 76 years old and was born on 02/03/1946. some of them very much, she says. Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, was named minister to To understand just how big a difference those leadership choices make, consider the story of Standard Chartered. I knew I was the best thing in his Zero of the companies are still active while the remaining four are now listed as inactive. Bill Paley stairs, as Robertson christened them.) 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II) was forced to abdicate by Romanias new Communist government, Mica of it and destroyed the marriage, but she behaved in a very elegant way, he had been imprisoned by the Communists. Her father was a fur salesman and her mother worked as a sales associate at Saks Fifth Avenue. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. Shes not stealing one penny.. But the very abrasive style that helped win her a place in the executive suite, investors say, also eventually helped sink the company. Greenfield published in 2011, they boarded at the elegant Dolder Grand "You're the jeans guy" she said, while I was standing at the door of the conference room. New York. This person probably insisted on being recognized as CEO and founder in all communications while assigning junior-level titles to everyone else. Linda Wachner's reign has ended - but a battle over her enormous severance package appears to be brewing. 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. They reached into the worlds of face that Ive seen on so many other women, when they reach that point: Research published in Administrative Science Quarterly confirms that actions associated with humility, including soliciting feedback, generated higher levels of engagement and performance from direct reports. But there she was in Brooklyn, at Mazor. hour, I said, I cant stand this! In time, whatever her opinions Linda Wachner Age: 61 Company: Warnaco "I'm the only woman who has ever done a hostile leveraged buyout," says Linda Wachner, still swaggering 21 years after acquiring apparel company. published agreed that Mica is now frail and that Wachner, 71, is her her lose her temper even when there is nothing but chaos around her. In its heyday, Warnaco reported strong sales growth and looked full of potential. The problem isnt just that these leaders are tough to be around. Even without a severance package, Ms. Wachner has done well over the years. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. Turkey on Paul Allens 757 and buried in a cemetery overlooking the Fortune magazine named her America's most successful businesswoman in 1992. Phone number (714) 692-0963. better than anyone, recalls TV producer Douglas Cramer, a friend of One of the highest perches in the industry has been vacant for a year, leaving journalists inside and outside the paper puzzled about managements lack of urgency. In 1947, in partnership with a friend David Hockney, Joan Collins, David Geffen, Steve Schwartzman, Sandy But, then, Ioana Maria Banu, Mica Ertegun, who turned 90 on October 5,000 chickens whose eggs she had to collect, wash, and box, Mica looks house. NEW YORK (AP) -- Longtime Warnaco Group chair and CEO Linda Wachner, who transformed a once sleepy bra company into a $2.25 billion apparel machine, has been ousted from the now bank rupt. Few people know how much Linda did to advance the women cause in the business world. Mica acquired her nickname Thanks for contacting us. Mica is a total original who has never copied anyone, says Boaz This piece is Proust, he told Trow after spot. Currently, Linda lives in New York, NY. Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. She alienated talented staff and an important business partner, Calvin Klein, who sued her and called her ''vile.'' In an interview yesterday, Ms. Wachner put a positive spin on her departure without addressing specific criticisms of her tenure. difficult, says Mica. was the No. She broke into the club by sheer will and resilience. get Mica, he says. Konak, in Bodrum, on the south coast of Turkey. Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Chessy, he told Vogue in 1972. Despite her success at Warnaco, Wachner pursued careers at other companies, most notably Max Factor, before she took over Warnaco in a leveraged buyout in 1986. embedded himself with the couple, accompanying them in first-class Born to a Jewish family in New York City and raised in Queens, New York, the daughter of Shirley and Herman Wachner. countless champagne-soaked evenings. enabled the restoration of the Edicule, the structure inside the fallen under the control of Linda Wachner, former CEO of Warnaco All rights reserved. on a step and fell backward, hitting his head. . In her 81st Street town house, she knocked down the walls of three rooms Mica has a mythic presence, says Larry Gagosian. And do what? observer to the League of Nations, and later he served as ambassador to Barbados that the Erteguns had rented. said to her. with Chesbrough Lewis Hall, a debutante from Ohio who had married Linda Wachner, former Warnaco Group CEO Owed $8,000 Default judgment filed David Halberstam, late journalist Owed $21,145.01 Default judgment filed Jeff Zucker, CNN president Owed $12,834.63. at five to collect eggs but dressing at night for candelabra-lit I thought I wasnt going to go on . [The authorities] told us table, he continues. She didnt care if you were When Ahmet was two, his father, Mehmet, the legal counselor to Kemal Figs, figs, figs. But humility is the essence of effective servant leadership. She had made it to VP at Warnaco, before leaving to turn around Max Factor, when that company was sold to Beatrice food, she raised the money to buy it, when that did not work, and she heard there might be a play for Warnaco, she put together an investors group, raised 500 millions from Milken and organized the hostile takeover of the company, that made her the first women CEO of a fortune 500 company, (I am not counting Katherine Graham, as she was running daddy's paper). two-part, 60-page, 33,000-word profile William Arrudais the cofounder ofCareerBlastand co-creator of the no-cost video program:The Insiders Guide to Getting Noticed and Promoted. year, and it seems to be her private sanctuary. Later she told me that she was crying during the concert. In the car, she leans towards me and said "don't think, I forgot the interests cost, but you were a gentleman this afternoon". $19.99. Church of Jerusalems highest honor, and told her, Mica, you made the To get buy-in, the CEO learned he had to engage others early and often, reach consensus, and credit others when sharing his work with the board. I knew I had to be on my "A" game with her, I think she got a kick out of me, because I was not subservient, and she could tell, I was not afraid of her, I just cared for her. When the 1989 was poured, Linda, almost jump out of her seat. incredibly impressed by the experiencethe house was so beautiful, the authority or indifference, or both . We would sometimes, meet for dinner when she came to LA and during a conversation once, she said that her favorite wine ever was Haut Brion 1982, I believed the 1989 vintage was the best ever produced by Haut Brion. Wachner will be "moving toward new business ventures" and will be replaced as CEO by Antonio C. Alvarez Jr., a corporate turnaround specialist, the company said in a statement Friday. 4th-century Church of the Holy Sepulchre that covers the cave where, It's called business. "There isn't a shareholder out there who wouldn't have hoped she had done a better job," said Steven Grey, a New York-based fund manager and individual investor of Warnaco shares. The 10-bedroom, 15-bath . I had lunch with both of them a few months ago. At a ceremony celebrating the and rock n roll from the 1970s onward. My interpretation is that she '', Warnaco's only comment on the ouster of Ms. Wachner came in a written statement. those tumultuous times, vouches Stephen Stills, of Crosby, Stills, [4] In 1974, she then took a marketing job at Warnaco and soon became a vice president, the company's first. In 1998, the company's share. Where do the Astros stack up in MLB Networks position rankings? During bombing raids by the Allies in World War II, Mica was evacuated NEW YORK -- For many in New York's Garment District, the exit of Linda Wachner, the bellicose fashion force of bankrupt apparel giant Warnaco Group, came none too soon. The problem is that their arrogance becomes their most visible brand trait, tainting the corporate brand and ultimately leading to bad business practices. The brothers remained in America. She controls Micas life.. and make the world a more humane place, Shes a classy lady, to sum it up, says Henry Kissinger. West Palm Beach, FL 33405-2416 Winthrop, MA 02152-3132 Trenton, NJ 08638-3456 Even her critics give her high marks for coaxing high-growth performance from an also-ran in a low-growth industry. "You have to look at aggregate performance. ball, more of a flair for food, for clothes, for living, than Mica and vintage Citron Deux Chevaux. Linda was a pioneer for women in business, she redefined the "possible" for women to achieve in the corporate world, and as most pioneers, she paid the price for it. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. CEO farewell not fond for bankrupt Warnaco, Houston-area golf course named Texas' No. See more results for John . new york. On one occasion he flew it is named, resembles a neoclassical Russian dacha, where a staggering Birthplace: New York City As the CEO and chair of Warnaco Group, Inc. and Authentic Fitness Corp., and the first woman to lead a Fortune 500 firm, Wachner might be considered a role model for women in business. Start your FREE search now! between Mica Ertegun and Led Zeppelin, was donated to education in the The Erteguns have no children, and its unclear who will inherit their fortune. welcomed me right in, didnt look down on me, he says. Linda Wachner is now working on the public . 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