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Katz, who has spent the past 22 years at Neiman Marcus, is clearly the one to do it. Having worn every hat from merchandise manager to V.P. of handbags and designer accessories to senior V.P. of stores, she took the reins of the company's e-commerce business in 2000, when flat-screen fashion was designers' biggest phobia. She turned it into a half-billion-dollar branch of the business, with every name in the industry on board. And she has presided over the now 39 Neiman Marcus stores for the past five years, a period when unequaled media attention...
...also the driving passion of Finnish chef Markus Maulavirta of Restaurant Ilmatar in the stylish Klaus K hotel in Helsinki. He even owns a patch of Arctic swamp to pick his own cloudberries and joins an annual wild-reindeer roundup in Lapland. For his 50th birthday, the chef spent 12 days biking the entire length of Finland, savoring every mile of the journey. His menu is an ode to the land, its traditions and its caretakers, featuring items like bread made from birch-bark flour, and sauna-cured ham from pigs raised for flavor rather than volume...
...unclear where that balance of toughness and perspective originates. Hermann hints that it comes from a childhood spent watching her parents, both doctors, deal with the carnage of emergency rooms. Hermann grew up in Concarneau, a fishing port in northern Brittany where car crashes were routine on the rough coastal roads and regularly disrupted the family's evenings. "I was often in the corridors of hospitals for emergencies, and it's funny, but I got used to that sort of activity," she recalls. "Maybe it's why I am so comfortable in fashion, which is so quick and aggressive...
INSIDE TRACK SPENT 16 YEARS AT VOGUE BEFORE WORKING FOR RALPH LAUREN...
During several trips to Iraq, I've met a soldier who spent only seven months at home between year-long deployments, and several soldiers who worry that their young children are growing up without them. Constant deployments are especially difficult for families in which both the husband and the wife are soldiers. If both deploy, it's possible they could go years without living at home as a family...