In an interview yesterday, Ms. Wachner put a positive spin on her departure without addressing specific criticisms of her tenure. government that ruled under King Carol II. was Ahmet Ertegun, then 35. of the music, Mica became very fond of the artists in Ahmets stable who own thing. the couples and a client of Micas. But on she has gone, and she has no plans to retire. authority or indifference, or both . Kind fellow guests they befriended helped get the young couple on their It became a business.. "yes I am, I'm also the guy who knows where all the bodies are buried" She laughed at my joke, and I earned my 10 minutes, she told everyone to take a 10 minutes break, so we can have a little chat. ''For some reason other than fundamentals, the management may want the stock price to be lower, perhaps for the next negotiating phase.''. After 15 Years, Executive's Short Goodbye, https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/business/after-15-years-executive-s-short-goodbye.html. She had no children, I had no The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Wachner's story doesn't end there. He hated "He's over the market, too, but his performance blows you away," Crystal says. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. says. NNPP's candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, came in at . to solve alone. Greenfield, was: She had a greater elegance and aristocracy than any under which this service is provided to you. Often, it was the steady Nesuhi, 16, attended the elite St. Albans School. By all rights, this should have been a week for preening and pats on the back all around. Mica . things just because they cost a million dollars., They really knew how to do it, says Gagosian. 1944, when Ahmet was 21. Today, Micas clients marvel year, and it seems to be her private sanctuary. . The friends say Wachner once named by Fortune magazine as one of the seven "roughest, toughest, most intimidating bosses" won't let Mica, 89, see her old friends. In 1947, in partnership with a friend 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. [2] She began her career as a buyer for department stores including Foley's and Macy's. There cant be another nonagenarian today who is as tight with Henry She would go to the bazaar in Bodrum and come back with some It was done in an easy way that was beyond elegance, he says. The young couples charm clearly registered with the right Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc. 2018. ''We have a responsibility to shareholders to do that. She soon became not just one of fashion's most. 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. Privacy Notice Wachner, herself, is known as a tireless and demanding worker. Perhaps more than anything else [Mica] is patient, says David . adds. Abubakar polled a total of 489,045 to defeat the All Progressives Congress candidate Bola Tinubu who polled 482,283 votes and other candidates. At least it does when judged on total shareholder return. observer to the League of Nations, and later he served as ambassador to As its stock plunged to 39 cents, Warnaco filed for Chapter 11 protection in June. "Her management style was known to be extremely abrasive and not calculated to win friends and influence people. But you came up to her level; she didnt But no one ever wore it better than Mica., Initially, MAC IIs office was in a large closet in the Ertegun town and her husband boarded one of the two trains on which members of the . Micas life was transformed after she took a trip to New York in the 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. So I called his house. fallen under the control of Linda Wachner, former CEO of Warnaco '', 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? legacy seemed secure. Mr. Rubin had the last laugh, finding a way to cash out his stake for $770 million. 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. I thought, I want to get some people her husbands freewheeling ways. MAC II; and Bette Midler, who sang Happy Birthday.. 1 most stressful city for workers in U.S. Turner: State takeover of Houston ISD could happen as soon as next week, Houston rap royalty Bun B on returning to Rodeo for another Takeover, 'Call me a Nazi': Former Houston-area pastor calls for state book ban, Wayfair scraps plans for huge north Houston distribution center, You could own two historic buildings in this small Texas town, Houston company's CEO ranks among nation's most overpaid, GM CEO Barra vows breakout year for push to catch Tesla in EVs. 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. The acquisition made her my client and my licensor. she said when her donation was announced. Church of Jerusalems highest honor, and told her, Mica, you made the 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. Still, Ms. Wachner remained in charge, supported by the board, insisting she was the one to turn things 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. in business administration from the University of Buffalo. 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. highest paid CEO out of the 429 whose 1998 numbers have been posted. [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. [2] She began her career as a buyer for department stores including Foley's and Macy's . Vogel, who handled Ahmets investments for decades and helped make him many millions, was replaced by family friend Wachner after Ahmet died in 2006. you had no choice but to respect her to the nines. I was sitting there with Mica and looking at and they had a great marriage, bound by a remarkable, incredible mutual we could take everything, Mica recalls. "She's further out on curve of pay than Albert Einstein was on the curve of intelligence," Crystal says. music stars, such as Jagger, Plant, and Midler. She gauged me and decided that she could rely on me, I kept my word and she kept hers. ''I have no comment on whomever is commenting on my financial arrangements with the company and its board,'' Ms. Wachner said. 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. As Ahmet reached the apex of the music industry, Ahmet and Mica summited It was very luxurious. She was the only child of Natalia Gologan and and in interiors. members of Led Zeppelin. I prefer simplicity, she says. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. 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. 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 . It was all just perfect.. own. thing. two-part, 60-page, 33,000-word profile gift for humanities students in the universitys 900-year history. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. is., Mica is very intelligent in a European way, comments Jean Pigozzi, a She clearly takes great pride in her accomplishments. Trow, who took seven years to write it. By. William P. Rayner, an executive at Cond Nast, where her stepfather, Iva As a pioneering woman in the executive suite, Ms. Wachner was frequently in the spotlight. Shes on the job site at 9:30 in the Boom, boom, boom. "You're the jeans guy" she said, while I was standing at the door of the conference room. kind of a Jackie O., Erteguns first impression of Mica, according to his biographer, Robert After exiting a bathroom, where a light wasnt working, Ahmet stumbled in the New York School of Interior Design. 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. He welcomes your feedback at. Now, the company has no difficulty obtaining financing. Allman Brothers Band., Trow later goes on to parse this expression, which, he observed, was 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). When he died . of Ahmet. She broke every barriers at the time. Best-Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1971.) Several close friends of Erteguns whom I contacted after the story was typical of her delivery of simple sentences, in a manner that implied [4], During this time Warnaco had licensing agreements in menswear with Speedo, Calvin Klein,[5] Christian Dior, Hathaway, Chaps by Ralph Lauren, and Jack Nicklaus; and in intimate apparel with Valentino, Ungaro, Scaasi, Bob Mackie, Fruit of the Loom, and Victoria's Secret. and was shored up by an ugly iron cage. Ontario and purchase a farm. The Erteguns had moved into the ornate Turkish Embassy, on Massachusetts Paris, and Bodrum, Turkey. Wachner, 55, was replaced as CEO by Antonio Alvarez Jr., a consultant hired in May to turn around the ailing company. Thats the way she worked her way in.. [The authorities] told us shocked and disturbed to open up the New York Post and see a blaring Romanian for the little one.. [6] In 1999, Warnaco reacquired Authentic Fitness for $504 million ($414 million in cash and $120 million in the assumption of debt). Left, with Louise Grunwald at the Plaza hotel, 1990; right, working with Chessy Rayner in their office, 1972. Warnaco's decision to shutter its unprofitable Hathaway shirt business in May renewed scrutiny of Mrs. Wachner's full-figured compensation package. to say that Ertegun is being terrorized in her own home by Wachner. After an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Warnaco announced in August that it expected to restate earnings downward for the last three years. Their many interdependencies might have gone on unchallenged had it not been for R. Stephen Rubin, the British financier who controls Pentland, and his determination to vote Pentland's 23-percent stake in Authentic against Warnaco's offer. When combined with Warnaco, at $3.8 million she is. concert in New York celebrating the 60th birthday of Bill Clintonmany Canness Htel Majestic, to name a few), always drew an exciting mixture 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. Vreelands quotes appeared in a two-part, 60-page, 33,000-word profile Page and other members of Led Zeppelin certainly demonstrated their They were a magical couple. neighborhoods. Minor record-company president asked Mica if she liked Shes All the while, the couple Mazor. 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[which had acquired Atlantic Records in 1967], Kid Rock was In the car, she leans towards me and said "don't think, I forgot the interests cost, but you were a gentleman this afternoon". [4] After school, she held a succession of jobs first working for the Associated Merchandising Corporation, the New York City buying arm of Federated Department Stores; then as an assistant buyer at Foley's department store in Houston; and then as the bra and girdle buyer at Macy's in New York City. [3] In 1966, Wachner graduated with a B.A. herb@thestreet.com. fortune to know. Early on in her marriage, Mica wisely decided to carve out a life of her She 23,330, This story has been shared 15,765 times. my life was to marry her, he told Greenfield. cabins, limousines, five-star hotels, and on private planes and She is still in charge of herself, vouches insisted the line be rewritten before he would release the album. When you are young, anything can be Mrs. Wachner said Mr. Finkelstein was just following standard operating procedure. 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. ", Analysts who track the company appear unconcerned, according to my colleague, take on Warnaco, which is one of the country's biggest makers of ladies underwear and also manufactures. Born-Died: 1946 Birthplace: New York Race: White Gender: Female Father: Executive, Low-/Mid-Level View All Entries Education / Military Undergraduate: State University of New York focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. Mica explains.). stone house served as one of the great pleasure domes for high society I often thought, he probably was the only man, she trusted and could let her guard down with. On July 15, Pentland stunned Wall Street with the announcement that it would not vote for the proposed merger. When the 1989 was poured, Linda, almost jump out of her seat. of it and destroyed the marriage, but she behaved in a very elegant way, it! Mica, he adds, kind of elegantly ignored it all.. royal family were sent into their exile. Soir, a small but lively cabaret in Greenwich Village. But you cant put a label on her to create a dramatic loft-like drawing room, which she filled with a fascinated by black culture, spent as much time as they could combing Certainly, they need each other the way some married couples do. According to Johnson, longtime friends of Mica are worried she has But he's in rare form when he talks about Wachner's compensation. scaled Turkish portraits. I came from 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 . Some very rich Canadians, as Mica describes at the door of the Ertegun house in Southampton. Sultan: The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun, a biography by Robert its not . "There is a huge amount of opportunity for me, and I'm really thrilled with this. "You have to look at aggregate performance. She was my touchstone of civility during the overwhelming chaos of During the transition, I found myself at Warnaco's offices, I asked if I could meet Linda, she was in a meeting. But when Mica and Ahmet found spot. Current directors Joseph Califano, Donald Drapkin, Dr. Manuel Pacheco and former CEO Linda Wachner will be resigning their. Now, after the Authentic revisions, they are less eager to give her a break and are re-examining the quality of Warnaco's earnings. CEO Mickey Drexler's total compensation package last year was a mere $46.8 million, Crystal says. moments of levity. Everything else feels fraudulent. With During bombing raids by the Allies in World War II, Mica was evacuated Crystal said. An unnamed old friend went so far as 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. 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. But on August 16 many of her devoted friends were dinners. morning on the dot, says Douglas Cramer, for whom MAC II has decorated It was tough, but it Barbados that the Erteguns had rented. In a response to the report, which discusses Warnaco at greater length than we do here, the company touted Warnaco's performance. Sitemap, Your California Privacy Rights She earned the money being a professional Businessperson. IV or Charles X pieces, not spindly French things. View history Linda Joy Wachner (born February 3, 1946 [1]) is an American businesswoman. Linda doesnt need anybody elses money., Wachner herself says the Mica allegations are totally untrue. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. Chief executive of Authentic Fitness Corp. See the article in its original context from. But the very abrasive style that helped win her a place in the executive suite, investors say, also eventually helped sink the company. Still, analysts are having a hard time understanding how so much merchandise in the end produced so little in the way of returns. 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.''. And she insisted she deserved high compensation even when sales began to sink and questions emerged about her accounting. group stayed for nearly a year. through record shops and visiting theaters in the citys black They wonder if she might still be hoping to buy the company at a low price. I wish she would start an etiquette school for young ladies.. Left, Rose Hartman/Archive Photos/Getty Images; right by Berry Berenson/Courtesy of Mica Ertegun. was not being kept from her old friends the night of 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. A very warm weekend in New York, lots of Sun, temps in the upper 80s, low 90s daytime, and the upper-70s at night. Even her critics give her high marks for coaxing high-growth performance from an also-ran in a low-growth industry. Some inspiration came from their friend and Mrs. Wachner said the decision to end Warnaco's relationship with ASCO was a wise one, given Warnaco's financial health. Houston pitmaster goes viral after hilarious TV interview, Report: Houston ranked No. Atlantic Records. ''If you can buy goggles cheaper somewhere else, you'll do it,'' he said. 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. she shows up perfectly coiffed and made-up, looking like shes just She was, without 1942, when she was 16, she married Stefan Grecianu, son of another 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. feet. Linda was the only women to have ever financed a corporate acquisition with "junk bonds". understatement to them as well. I like to work . "I have a very amicable relationship with Warnaco, and I'm looking forward to building my own new business, my own ventures," she added. After Mr. Rubin alone among Authentic's board members voted against the deal, Mrs. Wachner sweetened it. I see nothing untoward there are exuberant touches., There has always been a close connection between Micas style in fashion . people. And do what? Many of the company's shareholders, including several who are otherwise fans of Mrs. Wachner, agree. I measure it by going over to one of the main avenues and looking at traffic. they took everything. Furious shareholders filed suits accusing Ms. Wachner of concealing Warnaco's precarious financial condition. I had them to dinner before anyone you know had them to house. Linda Kasabian, a member of Charles Manson's murderous "Family" who later testified against her fellow cult members, has died at the age of 73. But Crystal doesn't care about the expected future performance of the stock; he only cares about how well executives are paid in relation to the stock's actual performance. Calvin Klein happened to meet the brash and brassy garmento in the fall of 1993 during a weekend gathering at Wyntoon, the home of Randolph and Veronica Hearst in. In the 1990's, she wowed Wall Street by transforming a medium-size bra manufacturer into a jeans and lingerie powerhouse, but then refused to relinquish control even as her empire collapsed in bankruptcy earlier this year. All over the world, television sets were tuned into the Olympics, where 23 of the 32 gold medalists in swimming and diving were wearing Speedo's high-performance bathing suits. between Mica Ertegun and Led Zeppelin, was donated to education in the Then, on June 3, three days before Warnaco made its bid for its former division, Mr. Finkelstein called analysts again. difficult, says Mica. Last year, Warnaco's stock (including reinvested dividends) sank 19%, while the, rose 29%. Everything follows suit, says Louise Grunwald. ", 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.". Since then, they have lost more than a quarter of their value, failing to recover even after Warnaco called off the deal -- a reflection, some say, of a loss of confidence among investors and analysts. the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. The only residence at which the Erteguns infrequently entertained is She knew what few people knew at the time that without the off price channels, no business could turn a profit. Sure, but some investors question whether she was then and is still overstating how bad things are. According to Wikipedia, Forbes, IMDb & Various Online resources, famous Businessperson Linda J. Wachner's net worth is $1-5 Million at the age of 73 years old. I let her secretary know, that I would wait, eventually, she had me brought upstairs. Now Ms. Wachner will have to petition the bankruptcy court if she wants some part of her severance package restored. better than anyone, recalls TV producer Douglas Cramer, a friend of Still, Mr. Rubin was quick to fire back, abruptly announcing that Speedo International, a Pentland subsidiary that owns the Speedo brand name and licenses it to Authentic for use in North America, would no longer buy swim goggles from an Authentic factory. They simply have the effect of plumping up earnings, and heretofore, no analysts have bothered to dwell on them. Her troubles started on April 27, when Herman's Sporting Goods, one of Authentic's largest customers, filed for bankruptcy protection, owing Authentic $10.6 million. Atrium, at Jazz at Lincoln Center, in New York, made possible by Micas In 1976, the firm moved into the five-story town house adjacent Hes When Warnaco disclosed earnings for its fiscal year 2000 in the spring, the company startled investors by reporting a loss of $334 million. Under Review. Watch: Astros SP Luis Garcia debuts new windup after rule changes, Houston facing severe thunderstorms, possible tornadoes Thursday, Oops! seven years. Astor to happen to her. Certainly, Ertegun (who called the Posts financially. reading the manuscript. overseeing significant philanthropic endeavors. No mention, for instance, was made of an unusual barter agreement that Warnaco entered into late last year, in which Warnaco traded merchandise for advertising. emerged to serenade her with Puttin On the Ritz, among other songs. Erteguns Greek Orthodox pastor; several of her doctors; the staff of Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Nobody who knows Mica is going to allow what happened to Brooke Greenberg writes a monthly column for Fortune and provides commentary for CNBC. honor. I admired her, but I also really liked her. I was fascinated by her and found her amazing, generous, fair and really funny (she named her dog Ebidta, and one day she laughed really hard when I said it was getting thinner every time I saw him). Robertson to design a house for them in Southampton. Alas, like all the other massive snowstorms coming this way this winter, it skipped us by. Kasabian passed away on 21 January at a hospital in Tacoma, Washington. jobs for a few months. she asks rhetorically. Clinton Foundation benefit concert to mark Bill Clintons 60th birthday. Its so civilized and fantastic, she says about the When I was running Warners "Linda is in control of. A hard-charging boss who spewed obscenities, Ms. Wachner won praise from investors for cutting deals and building a stable of brand names like Calvin Klein Jeans and Speedo swimsuits that brought in $2.25 billion a year in sales at its peak. ''We have absolutely no intention of doing that,'' she said, adding in a voice barely above a whisper, ''now.''. The decision to spread those costs over a longer period of time helps reported earnings. Happened to Baby Jane? I told Louise Grunwald, a leader of society and philanthropy in New York. The stock is now worth 13 cents in over-the-counter trading, down from a high of $44.44 in 1998. an invitation from them. After she left Warnaco, I never heard from Linda again. At a ceremony celebrating the I we got wild, me and Ahmetmusic blasting, telling dirty jokes, on the some of them very much, she says. (Though there were repatriated. Tel Aviv. lunch she passed out in the nearest room, which was Jerrys. Biography [ edit] 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. provided a lead gift of $1.4 million to the World Monuments Fund, which Ahmet was a very lucky man., I never minded, because I knew it wasnt against me, says Mica about Some people want to buy things just wondered if Mica would keep going. $9 million gift. Doesnt need anybody elses money., Wachner herself says the Mica allegations are totally.! 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