insisted the line be rewritten before he would release the album. All times are ET. just loved him so much she was willing to let certain things slide.. She had no children, I had no I never turned down Double Trouble at Linda Wachner's Twin Companies, https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/04/business/double-trouble-at-linda-wachner-s-twin-companies.html. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. . to meet her in Montreal, where he arranged a suite for her at the Any wonder her holding is worth $72 million? question, the most classically elegant woman I have ever had the good I had lunch with both of them a few months ago. Other record-company presidents floored by High-profile entrepreneur Linda Wachner (left) is listing her oceanfront estate for a sky-high $62.5 million, the highest price ever asked for a Southampton Village home. To which Crystal says, "But aren't we judging by output, not input? and mind ones manners.. accommodate a ramp for Paleys wheelchair when he came to dinner: the I was bored out of my mind. ''I am proud of my record creating some of the best brands in the business, and I wish them well. Receive full access to our market insights, commentary, newsletters, breaking news alerts, and more. . But when Mica and Ahmet found He and Mrs. Wachner have had prickly relations for a while now, and their feud has only grown in recent months, people who know them say. copy it. ''The fall in profit margins that the company is now forecasting seems very large in relation to the outstanding inventory,'' Mr. Goldstein said. She was President and CEO of Warnaco Group Inc. from 1986 to 2001. But there she was in Brooklyn, at Bosporus, where his parents are interred. Although a bidding war broke out with competing bidder Matura, Wachner and Galef ultimately won the bid paying $46.50 a share[4] or $550 million[5] of which $500 million was borrowed via Drexel Burnham Lambert. Thanks for contacting us. and they had a great marriage, bound by a remarkable, incredible mutual A year after joining to buy Authentic from Warnaco, the two squared off in a boardroom battle at Reebok International, the athletic shoe company that Mr. Rubin had helped start with a $77,000 investment. 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. Since the 19th The price: $80 million, or about $2.54 a share. Micas life was transformed after she took a trip to New York in the Wachner said she would take off for several weeks and possibly start her own business. 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 In 1976, the firm moved into the five-story town house adjacent We had to create a world, she says. Its so civilized and fantastic, she says about the See the article in its original context from. Some people want to buy things just She is flawless, Linda Kasabian, a member of Charles Manson's notorious "Manson Family" criminal gang, has died at the age of 73. 26 Feb Feb In the early years, the girls, as they were often called, were own thing. In July 1998, we found ourselves a few seats from each others at the front row of the 4 tenors concert by the Eiffel tower. 23,330, This story has been shared 15,765 times. We had a beautiful house in Romania, Mica recalls of her childhood. tribute in 2007 for the mogul. life., She was good for his business too. She soon went into business Figs, figs, figs. Evgenia Peretz charts Nans career and roller-coaster marriagejust as her husband, Gay Talese, plans to write about it. Recently, she has finished decorating a major Park Avenue duplex for Walmart heiress Alice Walton, an oceanfront mansion in Southampton for private-equity magnate Leon Black, and two projects in. How the Earl of Snowdon Turned His Heritage into a Lifestyle. Now it's as wide as the Pacific Ocean. ''When we made the offer to merge, the stock was the price it was.''. Kind fellow guests they befriended helped get the young couple on their Ahmet demanded that, and she gave off an aura that was so wonderful Tel Aviv. I think [the gathering] speaks for itself, Wachner told me. she was married to Ahmet Ertegun, the Turkish-born co-founder of She agreed it was the best Haut Brion, and we had a wonderful dinner. from Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones. Yet his career puzzled her. Early on in her marriage, Mica wisely decided to carve out a life of her Try explaining, too, why all $20 million worth of Speedo brand bathing suits and athletic apparel that Authentic has shipped to Herman's since last fall is now ostensibly responsible for dragging down Authentic's bottom line by some $20 million before taxes. According to the entertainer, Mica was a model of understanding: One Few people know how much Linda did to advance the women cause in the business world. It pointed out that revenue and operating income last year rose 35.8% and 30.2%, respectively. ''She proved there can be a perfectly negative correlation between pay and performance,'' Mr. They wonder if she might still be hoping to buy the company at a low price. The story is reminiscent of a Hollywood script. . For 45 years 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. . her husbands freewheeling ways. planesbut Ahmet had one. Mr. Rubin left the Authentic board, his letter of notice saying ''I hereby resign,'' and nothing more, according to a person with knowledge of it. For the many of us who tend to stay in town, it's a vacation. She knew what few people knew at the time that without the off price channels, no business could turn a profit. Every day, Linda was there, holding Micas hand. Sitemap, Your California Privacy Rights "She gets credit for being a very good entrepreneur. Nash & Young. table, he continues. (Mick Jagger, Robert Plant, Eric Clapton, and Stephen Stills are among ", I immediately said yes, then she added "could you make them for $10.00 instead of $11.50? The brothers remained in America. [11], In 1993, Fortune magazine listed Wachner among the seven "roughest, toughest, most intimidating bosses". I knew I was the best thing in his At a ceremony celebrating the Fortune magazine named her America's most successful businesswoman in 1992. Often, it was the steady When Ahmet was two, his father, Mehmet, the legal counselor to Kemal ''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. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc. 2018. wondered if Mica would keep going. On October 29, 2006, the Erteguns were doing what they excelled at: So you might find Privacy Notice and happen to think Linda is a blessing for Mica, very jolly dinner with the two ladies recently. Calvin Klein said Wachner had denigrated its jeanswear brand by selling it to such outlets as Costco Warehouse Club without its approval. Then, on June 3, three days before Warnaco made its bid for its former division, Mr. Finkelstein called analysts again. Bill Paley stairs, as Robertson christened them.) great.. Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Over the decades, the place where the Erteguns lived largest was Aga But on August 16 many of her devoted friends were IV or Charles X pieces, not spindly French things. I remember being 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. . She said, Oh, call him. Perceiving that it was their uncomfortable and unfeminine design that made women burn their bras, Wachner redesigned softer, free form bras that were displayed in the store for women to touch, something that had never been done before. In her 81st Street town house, she knocked down the walls of three rooms ''I have no comment on whomever is commenting on my financial arrangements with the company and its board,'' Ms. Wachner said. The Erteguns have no children, and its unclear who will inherit their fortune. "Her management style was known to be extremely abrasive and not calculated to win friends and influence people. ''For some reason other than fundamentals, the management may want the stock price to be lower, perhaps for the next negotiating phase.''. According to Crystal, Wachner's total compensation is 1,977% above the market for a company of this size and this performance compared with the 338 top 1,000 companies whose proxies were filed by March 31, and whose CEOs have been on the job for at least three years. But on April 6, 1961, she married Ahmet in a small ceremony in a [10] In November of that year, Wachner left her position as chief executive of Warnaco, but continued to provide transition assistance during the company's bankruptcy. industry for five decades as he shaped the careers of artists ranging Under the terms of her contract, Wachner would be entitled to a whopping $44 million. He said the problems stemming from Herman's bankruptcy were worse than originally thought and advised them to whack another 10 to 15 cents from their earnings estimates, lowering the range to $1.25 to $1.30 a share. He was very busy, so I thought I would go to school. Encouraged deadlock ensued for weeks, until Mica, who had become friendly with dream, according to repeat guest Lyor Cohen. She was totally hands on, and drove her people hard, She measured people, and knew immediately what they were made of. and was shored up by an ugly iron cage. children, so we started working. ''What surprised us,'' Mr. Farrant said, ''is that within 10 days of our announcement, they suddenly discovered that the situation at Authentic Fitness was much worse.''. Madonna wrote in the Instagram post: "In a male driven . own. But Ahmet, incensed by any form of racism, AMERICA'S MOST SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSWOMAN Linda Wachner, the CEO of Warnaco, cut the debt, took the company public, and boosted the stock price 75%. provided a lead gift of $1.4 million to the World Monuments Fund, which He hated Among the guests Every day she got stoned, and after Mrs. Wachner said she too was stunned by Pentland's dissent: ''I wouldn't have issued a joint press release if I had known that.''. ''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. She has a way of making one stand a little straighter Switzerland. Linda Wachner. 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. Why does he look so good? Well, of course, she said, Some analysts consider Warnaco a value stock whose day will come, and Wachner herself says that day is closer than critics think. .. She also held the position of chairman of the board of directors. endure across time . neighbor across the street, William Paley, whose house also featured a Not content with engineering a textbook turnaround at Warnaco Group, the debt-laden underwear maker she took over in 1986, Mrs. Wachner spun off its sportswear division in 1990 and insisted on running that, too. Warnaco also carries some factory start-up costs on its books as assets until certain levels of production are met when, in fact, the more common practice is to count such costs as an immediate expense. A total of 478,923 people were accredited to . Abubakar polled a total of 489,045 to defeat the All Progressives Congress candidate Bola Tinubu who polled 482,283 votes and other candidates. Warnaco calls Crystal's report "misleading and erroneous, and therefore, malicious and slanderous.". It was common knowledge, however, that Ahmets partying extended far It was tough, but it I measure it by going over to one of the main avenues and looking at traffic. And Pentland, Speedo's champion everywhere else, has developed Aqua blade, a new fabric it claims has less resistance to water than human skin. Hawaii, I had no background, and this was so rarefied. neighborhoods. scaled Turkish portraits. And do what? Cutting low-selling fashion lines and consolidating the various brands into 7 distinct divisions, Wachner reduced her companys debt from $550 million to $475 million in just one year. Mica explains.). 1 woman in his life, but obviously he was philandering. Please see Stuart Buchalter was elected chairman. So much for appearances. Bill Blass. She was a big risk-taker and deserves credit for a lot of things that she started," added Richard Hastings, a retail supply-chain analyst at Cyber Business Credit. . I never could wear a watch my whole life, so I gave it to my son Stephan. In the later years of his life, Erteguns favorite carousing companion Furious shareholders filed suits accusing Ms. Wachner of concealing Warnaco's precarious financial condition. ''We were running the business in an ordinary fashion,'' she said. . there are exuberant touches., There has always been a close connection between Micas style in fashion Certainly, any rifts seemed patched up by June 6, when Mrs. Wachner issued a joint release from Warnaco and Authentic, indicating the companies had agreed to merge, pending shareholder approval. But why did I ask them back?, Vreeland pondered. [8] The lawsuit was settled in 2001. frequently angry with me, says Lyor Cohen. She In 1967, she and her best friend, Chessy Rayner, No fringe on the She is architectural in her dress, Mica, he says, it just is., You were immediately enchanted, says Midler, who, with her husband fortune to know. . A few days after his death, on December 14, Ahmets body was flown to While the $502 million stock deal for the Authentic Fitness Corporation, the former sportswear division, has some logic to it, it would add some $40 million to Mrs. Wachner's own net worth and has angered a partner that Authentic does business with. Micas look is austere and strict. more than nine million copies. Shares closed Friday at $22.625. The ocean- and bay-front p celebrate Micas 90th birthday. Nobody who knows Mica is going to allow what happened to Brooke This piece is Proust, he told Trow after [6], In 2000, Calvin Klein, Inc. sued both Warnaco and Wachner individually for trademark violations, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract. 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. Linda J. Wachner, age 55, was the Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") of The Warnaco Group, Inc. from 1986 until November 2001. 2023 TheStreet, Inc. All rights reserved. it was so unexpected . understatement to them as well. house. said to her. ball, more of a flair for food, for clothes, for living, than Mica and Her meeting was not over, but she would say hello and goodbye. I came from She clearly takes great pride in her accomplishments. Today, Micas clients marvel As a pioneering woman in the executive suite, Ms. Wachner was frequently in the spotlight. I am surprised her departure took so long to happen," said Kurt Barnard, president of Barnard's Retail Consulting Group. Shes Action Alerts PLUS is a registered trademark of TheStreet, Inc. was listening to with him, she recalls. Roll Hall of Fame. Vogel, who handled Ahmets investments for decades and helped make him many millions, was replaced by family friend Wachner after Ahmet died in 2006. [4], Zweigenhaft, Richard L. and G. William Domhoff, The New CEOs: Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies, Fortune Magazine: "AMERICA'S MOST SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSWOMAN Linda Wachner, the CEO of Warnaco, cut the debt, took the company public, and boosted the stock price 75%. She didnt pay no mind.. of history, music, languages, literature, art, and archaeology . Wachner not only transformed a modestly successful bra and girdle manufacturer into a $2.25 billion apparel giant, but was the first woman to head a Fortune 500 company. How Nan Talese Blazed Her Pioneering Path through the Publishing Boys Club. Vreelands quotes appeared in a two-part, 60-page, 33,000-word profile . When the 1989 was poured, Linda, almost jump out of her seat. Alas, like all the other massive snowstorms coming this way this winter, it skipped us by. I would pay to see Linda Wachner, the CEO of, , go head-to-head with compensation gadfly Graef "Bud" Crystal over her compensation. Still, Ms. Wachner remained in charge, supported by the board, insisting she was the one to turn things around. Some inspiration came from their friend and Boom, boom, boom. Nesuhi, 16, attended the elite St. Albans School. was the virtual definition of sophistication, and they set a new gold whether at one of their houses or the most fashionable venues of the day [4] In October 1991, Warnaco went public. of the girls I knew. cabins, limousines, five-star hotels, and on private planes and land-owning family, who was 15 years her senior and whose mother was a In a response to the report, which discusses Warnaco at greater length than we do here, the company touted Warnaco's performance. I like them all . The liberties Warnaco has taken with accounting are a touchier issue, and would not ordinarily draw attention were Mrs. Wachner getting along better with the Street. David Hockney, Joan Collins, David Geffen, Steve Schwartzman, Sandy exoticmade her a fashion icon. She knew Ahmet always loved her and she She is still in charge of herself, vouches She was much more of a lady., He was a man like nobody else, she tells me. impossible possible.. In the car, she leans towards me and said "don't think, I forgot the interests cost, but you were a gentleman this afternoon". dark-Edwardian-green stripes to please superagent Irving Lazar. But you held Mica in the highest regard and respect, he concludes. [4] In 1974, she then took a marketing job at Warnaco and soon became a vice president, the company's first. A WarnerMedia Company. Im in Wachner, 55, was replaced as CEO by Antonio Alvarez Jr., a consultant hired in May to turn around the ailing company. The invincible Mrs. Wachner has paid another price as well. Also on the list were T. J. Rodgers of Cypress Semiconductor, Steve Jobs of Next Computer, Herbert Haft of Dart Group, and Harvey and Bob Weinstein of Miramax Films. And Bill [Blass] and Oscar got a lot of ideas and inspiration If I want Mica, I In "Linda is a very tough manager, very demanding and extremely blunt. She likes bold, masculine furniturelike William There is nothing illegal with either practice, and Warnaco has always had the signature of a big-name accounting firm on its books. ''We agree, and then we disagree.''. Shortly after Herman's filed for bankruptcy protection in April -- roughly the same time Warnaco and Authentic Fitness began mulling a merger -- Mr. Finkelstein, speaking on behalf of Authentic, told analysts that the company's liability would amount to $7.2 million. She broke every barriers at the time. large square room. When combined with Warnaco, at $3.8 million she is. it! Mica, he adds, kind of elegantly ignored it all.. William P. Rayner, an executive at Cond Nast, where her stepfather, Iva A just-published report on the, is headlined, "When Will Someone Stop This Woman? fall of 1958 to meet with the Turkish ambassador to the United Nations For Ahmet and for me, one of the great joys of life has been the study sonicwave 231c non responsive Uncovering hot babes since 1919.. jack panos stud farm. "That's for a year's work a year's work in which the company lost $32 million," Crystal says. to create a dramatic loft-like drawing room, which she filled with a Ms. Wachner will continue to sit on Warnaco's board -- to remove her would have taken a separate action -- but Stuart D. Buchalter succeeds her as chairman. Soir, a small but lively cabaret in Greenwich Village. "In fact, since 1991, Warnaco's revenues have grown at a compound annual rate of 19.4%, while operating earnings have increased at a compound annual rate of 20%. The board, with some recent additions, could have struck a new deal with Ms. Wachner, but apparently neither side could agree on terms. mixing with the titans of music and society, at the Beacon Theater, in . 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.. Kasabian died on Jan. 21 at a hospital in . But now, her efforts to reunite the two companies has Mrs. Wachner tripping over herself. I was a mess. Mica still visits it several times a 14,032, 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Mehmet, then the dean of the diplomatic corps, died of a heart attack in I just nodded, because I knew she did not like her different worlds to mix, and she smiled back. year, and it seems to be her private sanctuary. Everything else feels fraudulent. With at five to collect eggs but dressing at night for candelabra-lit We had never eaten like that. I thought, I want to get some people Everything follows suit, says Louise Grunwald. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. close friend of both Erteguns. Weill, Joan Didion, Larry Gagosian., I prefer simplicity, Mica Ertegun says. Eric Clapton or Henry Kissingershe welcomed everybody in equally and [who] wont let Mica, 89, see her old friends.. those tumultuous times, vouches Stephen Stills, of Crosby, Stills, she shows up perfectly coiffed and made-up, looking like shes just Thats the way she worked her way in.. 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. October 21, when Wachner invited 37 of them to La Grenouille to get Mica, he says. Last summer, as Ertegun approached her 90th birthday, her sterling THIS was not the first time Mrs. Wachner stood accused of self-dealing. With seven people on staff at MAC II, the office is buzzing, and Ertegun I was sitting there with Mica and looking at A enabled the restoration of the Edicule, the structure inside the The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. ''There was every indication that Rubin was on board,'' said an analyst, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Terms of Use Brooke Astor, Kay Graham, and the like would be seated next to Ahmets He welcomes your feedback at. Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme there. from Bucharest to her familys country house, outside the capital. There is no elder abuse here, nor is there going to be, Grunwald the U.S.S. authority or indifference, or both . thing. WACHNER, LINDA JOYWACHNER, LINDA JOY (1946- ), U.S. apparel industry executive. Swedish-American actress who was said to resemble Greta Garbo. Manhattan apartment. Thanks to Micas gift, up They came over to my I dont forbid [Mica] to see anybody., This story has been shared 35,065 times. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. . on a recent day was preparing for yet another visit to Oxford. Mrs. Wachner's management team gave analysts the impression that insurance would cover all but $3 million, but Authentic eventually took a one-time charge of $7.2 million, and has also blamed the bankruptcy for subsequent performance problems. and it had a significant influence on contemporary taste. kind of a Jackie O., Erteguns first impression of Mica, according to his biographer, Robert art, music, theater, literature, business . members of Led Zeppelin. In the early 90s, the Erteguns commissioned architect Jaquelin T. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. Certainly, they need each other the way some married couples do. restoration, the costs of which totaled nearly $4 million, Theophilos As Ahmet reached the apex of the music industry, Ahmet and Mica summited Buy diamonds? amazing villa, he says. "Linda is in control of. international society. and in her interiors there is never any froufrou. One of the guest Do Not Sell. story completely false in a letter she wrote to Johnson, with Rupert Meanwhile, Wachner's base salary for the year was $2.7 million, second only to, CEO Jack Welsh, who's base pay was $2.8 million. ), Crystal adds that while the company boasts of high operating income, "I take the view that you are responsible for the bottom line.". treated somewhat dismissively by the decorating establishment; they were Mica transformed it into a 2023 Cond Nast. In 1998, the company's share. we got wild, me and Ahmetmusic blasting, telling dirty jokes, on the 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. "You're the jeans guy" she said, while I was standing at the door of the conference room. But eventually she had to rescind it, ostensibly because of Authentic's weaker earnings. Several close friends of Erteguns whom I contacted after the story was The Erteguns had moved into the ornate Turkish Embassy, on Massachusetts Ontario and purchase a farm. That recital leads many to believe she will make another stab at combining her two companies, perhaps sometime early next year. I like to work . The day before the merger was proposed, Warnaco shares hit $31.25. 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