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...AZRIA HAS SPENT HALF OF HIS LIFE in France, but he thinks Americans are more fashionable than Europeans. "The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world," he declares, in English less fluent than his French. "She understands the power of good style and has the confidence to feel comfortable." In 1989, inspired by what he saw on the streets of Southern California, he founded a modest contemporary label named after the saying bon chic, bon genre, Parisian slang for "good style, good attitude." Today he is chairman, CEO and designer of BCBG Max Azria Group...
...wife, mother (she and Azria have three daughters, and she is stepmom to his three children from a previous marriage) and career woman, who, according to the company bio, "successfully balances life's demands with enviable grace, refusing to compromise on her fulfillment of each role." She speaks Russian, English and a bit of Spanish, takes salsa classes and has a thing for foreign films...
...addition to her domestic volunteer work, Badaracco spent her summers in Ecuador and Bolivia, studied abroad in Chile her junior year, and taught English the year after college in Manaus, Brazil...
Jaciy Pimenta, the director of the English Teaching Professional-English as a Second Language (ETP/ESL) program in Manaus, praised Badaracco extensively in an e-mail. Volunteers in the Brazilian program are given credits based on participation and enthusiasm, and Pimenta wrote that “in ten years of…ETP/ESL program activities, [Badaracco] was the only participant who could get a score of 100 credits, for her high dedication, sense of cooperation, and responsibility toward her students...
...plan for general education—assembled by former Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby in May—has been “working hard all summer,” Bok said. One of the committee’s co-chairs, Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, said last Friday that the committee plans to release its preliminary proposals before the end of September...