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Tory Burch

January 01, 1970

Tory Burch (née Robinson; born June 17, 1966) is an American fashion designer, businesswoman, and philanthropist. She is the Executive Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of her own brand, Tory Burch LLC.[1] She was listed as the 88th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes in 2020.[2]

Tory Burch
Burch in 2009
Born
Tory Robinson

(1966-06-17) June 17, 1966 (age 57)
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania (BA)
Occupation(s)Fashion designer
Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Tory Burch LLC[1]
Spouse(s)William Macklowe
(1993; divorced)
J. Christopher Burch
(1996–2006; divorced)
Pierre-Yves Roussel
(2018–present)

Early life and education edit

Burch was born in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,[3] the daughter of Reva (née Schapira) and Ira Earl "Bud" Robinson (1923–2007).[4] She was raised with her three brothers in a 250-year-old Georgian farmhouse near Valley Forge National Historical Park.[5]

Her father was a wealthy investor who inherited a stock exchange seat and a paper cup company.[5] Burch is Jewish on her mother's side.[6][7]

Burch attended the Agnes Irwin School in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, where she was a friend of jewelry designer Kara Ross.[8] Her first job was at Benetton in the King of Prussia mall.[8] She then attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in art history, and graduated in 1988.[5] Burch is a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.

Career edit

Early work edit

After graduating from college, Tory moved to New York City, where she worked for Zoran, a Yugoslavian designer,[5] followed by Harper's Bazaar magazine. She then moved into public relations and advertising positions at Vera Wang,[5][9] Polo Ralph Lauren, and Loewe when Narciso Rodriguez was there.[10]

Fashion label edit

Main article: Tory Burch (company)
 
An ensemble Burch designed in 2018 on display in the In America: A Lexicon of Fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Burch began her fashion label – "TRB by Tory Burch", later known as Tory Burch – in February 2004, launching it with a retail store in Manhattan's Nolita district.[3][11][12]

As of 2023, it has grown to include more than 370 stores worldwide;[13] the fashion line is also carried at over 3,000 department and specialty stores worldwide.[14][15][16] In 2015 Burch also introduced a separate performance activewear line, Tory Sport.[17][18][19]

Awards and recognition edit

In 2005, Burch won the Rising Star Award for Best New Retail Concept from the Fashion Group International.[3] In 2007, she won the Accessory Brand Launch of the year award at the Accessories Council Excellence Awards.[3][20] In 2008, Burch won the Council of Fashion Designers of America award for Accessories Designer of the Year.[21] Working Mother included her on their list of the 50 Most Powerful Moms of 2015.[22] In 2015, she received the Breast Cancer Research Foundation's Sandra Taub Humanitarian Award.[23][24]

Burch has consistently been included on Forbes' list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women.[25] As of 2020, she is listed as the 88th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[2] In November 2019, Burch was named a Glamour Woman of the Year.[26] In November 2020, she was featured in a cover story in Forbes magazine on how her fashion company navigated the COVID-19 pandemic.[27] In 2021, she was named an inaugural member of the advisory council for the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum in Washington, DC.[28] In 2022, the Wharton School's Jay H. Baker Retailing Center and Retail Leaders Circle honored her with its inaugural Retail Excellence Award in recognition of her industry leadership and support of women entrepreneurs.[29] In 2022, she also received the Parsons Table Award from the Parsons School of Design;[30] the award "recognizes individuals who have made a noteworthy impact on the design industry and have inspired our students".[31] In addition, she received the CARE Impact Award for Women's Inspirational Leadership in 2022 from CARE International.[32]

In 2023, the CFDA Fashion Awards nominated Burch for Womenswear Designer of the Year,[33][34] In 2024, she was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.[35] and Harper's Bazaar named her Designer of the Year.[36][37]

Philanthropy edit

 
Burch at the 2009 Vanity Fair celebration for the Tribeca Film Festival

Burch serves on the boards of the Council of Fashion Designers of America,[38] the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,[39] the Breast Cancer Research Foundation,[40] the Startup America Partnership,[41] and the Barnes Foundation.[42] She is a member of the Industry Advisory Board of the Jay H. Baker Retailing Center at the Wharton School of Business,[43] and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[44] She chaired the 2007 spring gala for the American Ballet Theatre.[45]

In 2009, Burch founded the Tory Burch Foundation, which supports the economic empowerment of women in the U.S. through small business loans, mentoring, and entrepreneurial education.[46][47][48] Burch's stores sell products whose proceeds support the foundation's work.[49]

Among its initiatives, the Tory Burch Foundation offered an entrepreneurial education program, in collaboration with Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses and Babson College.[50] The foundation also offers a fellows program providing women entrepreneurs with business-education grants, mentoring, and networking opportunities.[51][52] In 2023, the foundation joined with Billie Jean King and the International Tennis Federation's Advantage All program to launch the Tory Burch Foundation Sports Fellowship, which provides an education grant, networking support, and one-on-one mentoring for female entrepreneurs in the sports industry.[53]

In 2014, the foundation launched Elizabeth Street Capital, an initiative with Bank of America, to provide women entrepreneurs with access to low-cost loans and mentoring support.[54][55][56] The initiative, originally named for the location of the first Tory Burch boutique, is now known as the Tory Burch Foundation Capital Program.[57] By November 2017, Bank of America had committed a total of $50 million to the program,[58] and by 2018 the program was facilitating $1 million in loans each month.[59] By the end of 2023, it had disbursed $100 million in affordable loans[60] to more than 5,500 women entrepreneurs.[61]

In April 2014, the Obama administration named Burch an inaugural member of the Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship, a group of successful American businesspeople committed to developing the next generation of entrepreneurs in the U.S. and around the world.[62][63]

In March 2017, to coincide with International Women's Day and Women's History Month, the Tory Burch Foundation launched Embrace Ambition, a global campaign to address the double standard that exists around ambition, which is often seen as a positive trait in men and a negative one in women. The campaign includes a video PSA featuring a variety of celebrities, both women and men.[64][65][66] In September 2017, Burch wrote an opinion piece in Time on pay equity for women, noting how equal pay benefits society and business across the board.[67] In April 2018, Burch and her foundation hosted the first Embrace Ambition Summit, an all-day event supporting women's ambition and examining stereotypes about women and ambition in the workplace, at Lincoln Center in New York and also viewable on the Tory Burch Foundation website.[68][69][70][71][59] In March 2019, the Embrace Ambition initiative hosted a sequential five-day speaker series in five cities: Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, and New York.[72] The foundation hosted the second Embrace Ambition Summit in March 2020 in New York.[73][74]

In June 2020, Newsweek recognized Tory Burch as one of “50 US Companies That Stood Out During the Pandemic”, for providing $5 million of clothing, and 3,000 yards of fabric for face masks and hospital gowns, to frontline healthcare workers.[75]

In 2021, the Tory Burch company and the School of Fashion at Parsons School of Design announced a five-year multi-disciplinary educational partnership, and Burch announced the creation of an endowed scholarship fund at Parsons with a gift that will be matched to establish a $1,000,000 financial-aid fund.[76]

Controversy edit

In 2017, a Facebook Community called La Blouse Roumaine, which promoted Romanian traditional craftsmanship, pointed that a coat by Burch, displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and initially marketed as a garment inspired by Africa, was virtually identical to a traditional Romanian outfit. They also pointed out that other pieces from the same collection had many similarities with Romanian garments, including the sweaters worn by the Romania national rugby union team at the 2015 Rugby World Cup.[77] Burch acknowledged the similarity and responded: "In our effort to summarize the collection, we missed a reference to a beautiful Romanian coat which inspired one of the pieces. Whether it’s Romania, Uganda or France, we are a brand that strives to celebrate, honor and be inclusive of women from all countries and cultures, in the broadest way possible".[78]

In March 2021, controversy rose over a jumper designed by Burch which closely resembled a traditional fishermen garment made in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. The stylist had initially marketed it as a 'Baja-inspired tunic', in reference to Baja California, a state in Mexico. Pictures of the piece led to criticism from Portuguese internet users and the mayor of Póvoa de Varzim. Burch issued an apology in her social media and changed the description of the piece to "Póvoa de Varzim-inspired sweater".[79] Shortly afterwards, the Portuguese government announced its intention to take legal action and demand compensation for the heritage of Póvoa de Varzim, after which Burch removed the sweater from her website.[80] In November 2021, the municipality of Póvoa de Varzim announced that a settlement with Burch had been reached out of court.[81]

Pottery pieces created by Burch were also criticised as being virtually identical to Bordallo Pinheiro ceramics designs, which led to a protest from Bordallo Pinheiro owners Vista Alegre.[82][83]

Internet users also noted that Burch's logo is similar to that of a Portuguese stylist, Nuno Gama, and the Order of Christ Cross, a historical Portuguese insignia.[84]

Personal life edit

In 1993, she married William Macklowe, son of real-estate tycoon Harry B. Macklowe, and was divorced within a year.[85] In 1996, she married J. Christopher Burch,[86] an investor in Internet Capital Group, a venture capital firm founded by Walter Buckley and Ken Fox. They have three sons: Henry, Nicholas "Nick", and Sawyer. She also has three stepdaughters from his previous marriage. They divorced in 2006. She continues to use his last name, and for some time continued to live with her children in their New York City apartment.[87]

She dated Lance Armstrong in 2007.[88][89] Afterward she was for some time linked to Lyor Cohen.[90] In November 2018, Burch married Pierre-Yves Roussel, the former chairman and CEO of LVMH. He became CEO of Burch's company in early 2019 and Burch became Executive Chairman and Chief Creative Officer.[91][92][1] The couple had been dating since 2014 and became engaged in 2016.[93]

Forbes magazine estimated that she was a billionaire with a net worth of $1.0 billion in 2013.[94] She is worth approximately $850 million as of 2019.[95]

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January 01, 1970
tory, burch, née, robinson, born, june, 1966, american, fashion, designer, businesswoman, philanthropist, executive, chairman, chief, creative, officer, brand, listed, 88th, most, powerful, woman, world, forbes, 2020, burch, 2009borntory, robinson, 1966, june,. Tory Burch nee Robinson born June 17 1966 is an American fashion designer businesswoman and philanthropist She is the Executive Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of her own brand Tory Burch LLC 1 She was listed as the 88th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes in 2020 2 Tory BurchBurch in 2009BornTory Robinson 1966 06 17 June 17 1966 age 57 Valley Forge Pennsylvania U S EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania BA Occupation s Fashion designerChairman and Chief Creative Officer of Tory Burch LLC 1 Spouse s William Macklowe 1993 divorced J Christopher Burch 1996 2006 divorced Pierre Yves Roussel 2018 present Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 Early work 2 2 Fashion label 2 3 Awards and recognition 3 Philanthropy 4 Controversy 5 Personal life 6 References 7 External linksEarly life and education editBurch was born in Valley Forge Pennsylvania 3 the daughter of Reva nee Schapira and Ira Earl Bud Robinson 1923 2007 4 She was raised with her three brothers in a 250 year old Georgian farmhouse near Valley Forge National Historical Park 5 Her father was a wealthy investor who inherited a stock exchange seat and a paper cup company 5 Burch is Jewish on her mother s side 6 7 Burch attended the Agnes Irwin School in Rosemont Pennsylvania where she was a friend of jewelry designer Kara Ross 8 Her first job was at Benetton in the King of Prussia mall 8 She then attended the University of Pennsylvania where she majored in art history and graduated in 1988 5 Burch is a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority Career editEarly work edit After graduating from college Tory moved to New York City where she worked for Zoran a Yugoslavian designer 5 followed by Harper s Bazaar magazine She then moved into public relations and advertising positions at Vera Wang 5 9 Polo Ralph Lauren and Loewe when Narciso Rodriguez was there 10 Fashion label edit Main article Tory Burch company nbsp An ensemble Burch designed in 2018 on display in the In America A Lexicon of Fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Burch began her fashion label TRB by Tory Burch later known as Tory Burch in February 2004 launching it with a retail store in Manhattan s Nolita district 3 11 12 As of 2023 it has grown to include more than 370 stores worldwide 13 the fashion line is also carried at over 3 000 department and specialty stores worldwide 14 15 16 In 2015 Burch also introduced a separate performance activewear line Tory Sport 17 18 19 Awards and recognition edit In 2005 Burch won the Rising Star Award for Best New Retail Concept from the Fashion Group International 3 In 2007 she won the Accessory Brand Launch of the year award at the Accessories Council Excellence Awards 3 20 In 2008 Burch won the Council of Fashion Designers of America award for Accessories Designer of the Year 21 Working Mother included her on their list of the 50 Most Powerful Moms of 2015 22 In 2015 she received the Breast Cancer Research Foundation s Sandra Taub Humanitarian Award 23 24 Burch has consistently been included on Forbes list of The World s 100 Most Powerful Women 25 As of 2020 update she is listed as the 88th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes 2 In November 2019 Burch was named a Glamour Woman of the Year 26 In November 2020 she was featured in a cover story in Forbes magazine on how her fashion company navigated the COVID 19 pandemic 27 In 2021 she was named an inaugural member of the advisory council for the Smithsonian American Women s History Museum in Washington DC 28 In 2022 the Wharton School s Jay H Baker Retailing Center and Retail Leaders Circle honored her with its inaugural Retail Excellence Award in recognition of her industry leadership and support of women entrepreneurs 29 In 2022 she also received the Parsons Table Award from the Parsons School of Design 30 the award recognizes individuals who have made a noteworthy impact on the design industry and have inspired our students 31 In addition she received the CARE Impact Award for Women s Inspirational Leadership in 2022 from CARE International 32 In 2023 the CFDA Fashion Awards nominated Burch for Womenswear Designer of the Year 33 34 In 2024 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine 35 and Harper s Bazaar named her Designer of the Year 36 37 Philanthropy edit nbsp Burch at the 2009 Vanity Fair celebration for the Tribeca Film Festival Burch serves on the boards of the Council of Fashion Designers of America 38 the Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 39 the Breast Cancer Research Foundation 40 the Startup America Partnership 41 and the Barnes Foundation 42 She is a member of the Industry Advisory Board of the Jay H Baker Retailing Center at the Wharton School of Business 43 and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations 44 She chaired the 2007 spring gala for the American Ballet Theatre 45 In 2009 Burch founded the Tory Burch Foundation which supports the economic empowerment of women in the U S through small business loans mentoring and entrepreneurial education 46 47 48 Burch s stores sell products whose proceeds support the foundation s work 49 Among its initiatives the Tory Burch Foundation offered an entrepreneurial education program in collaboration with Goldman Sachs 10 000 Small Businesses and Babson College 50 The foundation also offers a fellows program providing women entrepreneurs with business education grants mentoring and networking opportunities 51 52 In 2023 the foundation joined with Billie Jean King and the International Tennis Federation s Advantage All program to launch the Tory Burch Foundation Sports Fellowship which provides an education grant networking support and one on one mentoring for female entrepreneurs in the sports industry 53 In 2014 the foundation launched Elizabeth Street Capital an initiative with Bank of America to provide women entrepreneurs with access to low cost loans and mentoring support 54 55 56 The initiative originally named for the location of the first Tory Burch boutique is now known as the Tory Burch Foundation Capital Program 57 By November 2017 Bank of America had committed a total of 50 million to the program 58 and by 2018 the program was facilitating 1 million in loans each month 59 By the end of 2023 it had disbursed 100 million in affordable loans 60 to more than 5 500 women entrepreneurs 61 In April 2014 the Obama administration named Burch an inaugural member of the Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship a group of successful American businesspeople committed to developing the next generation of entrepreneurs in the U S and around the world 62 63 In March 2017 to coincide with International Women s Day and Women s History Month the Tory Burch Foundation launched Embrace Ambition a global campaign to address the double standard that exists around ambition which is often seen as a positive trait in men and a negative one in women The campaign includes a video PSA featuring a variety of celebrities both women and men 64 65 66 In September 2017 Burch wrote an opinion piece in Time on pay equity for women noting how equal pay benefits society and business across the board 67 In April 2018 Burch and her foundation hosted the first Embrace Ambition Summit an all day event supporting women s ambition and examining stereotypes about women and ambition in the workplace at Lincoln Center in New York and also viewable on the Tory Burch Foundation website 68 69 70 71 59 In March 2019 the Embrace Ambition initiative hosted a sequential five day speaker series in five cities Philadelphia Chicago Dallas San Francisco and New York 72 The foundation hosted the second Embrace Ambition Summit in March 2020 in New York 73 74 In June 2020 Newsweek recognized Tory Burch as one of 50 US Companies That Stood Out During the Pandemic for providing 5 million of clothing and 3 000 yards of fabric for face masks and hospital gowns to frontline healthcare workers 75 In 2021 the Tory Burch company and the School of Fashion at Parsons School of Design announced a five year multi disciplinary educational partnership and Burch announced the creation of an endowed scholarship fund at Parsons with a gift that will be matched to establish a 1 000 000 financial aid fund 76 Controversy editIn 2017 a Facebook Community called La Blouse Roumaine which promoted Romanian traditional craftsmanship pointed that a coat by Burch displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and initially marketed as a garment inspired by Africa was virtually identical to a traditional Romanian outfit They also pointed out that other pieces from the same collection had many similarities with Romanian garments including the sweaters worn by the Romania national rugby union team at the 2015 Rugby World Cup 77 Burch acknowledged the similarity and responded In our effort to summarize the collection we missed a reference to a beautiful Romanian coat which inspired one of the pieces Whether it s Romania Uganda or France we are a brand that strives to celebrate honor and be inclusive of women from all countries and cultures in the broadest way possible 78 In March 2021 controversy rose over a jumper designed by Burch which closely resembled a traditional fishermen garment made in Povoa de Varzim Portugal The stylist had initially marketed it as a Baja inspired tunic in reference to Baja California a state in Mexico Pictures of the piece led to criticism from Portuguese internet users and the mayor of Povoa de Varzim Burch issued an apology in her social media and changed the description of the piece to Povoa de Varzim inspired sweater 79 Shortly afterwards the Portuguese government announced its intention to take legal action and demand compensation for the heritage of Povoa de Varzim after which Burch removed the sweater from her website 80 In November 2021 the municipality of Povoa de Varzim announced that a settlement with Burch had been reached out of court 81 Pottery pieces created by Burch were also criticised as being virtually identical to Bordallo Pinheiro ceramics designs which led to a protest from Bordallo Pinheiro owners Vista Alegre 82 83 Internet users also noted that Burch s logo is similar to that of a Portuguese stylist Nuno Gama and the Order of Christ Cross a historical Portuguese insignia 84 Personal life editIn 1993 she married William Macklowe son of real estate tycoon Harry B Macklowe and was divorced within a year 85 In 1996 she married J Christopher Burch 86 an investor in Internet Capital Group a venture capital firm founded by Walter Buckley and Ken Fox They have three sons Henry Nicholas Nick and Sawyer She also has three stepdaughters from his previous marriage They divorced in 2006 She continues to use his last name and for some time continued to live with her children in their New York City apartment 87 She dated Lance Armstrong in 2007 88 89 Afterward she was for some time linked to Lyor Cohen 90 In November 2018 Burch married Pierre Yves Roussel the former chairman and CEO of LVMH He became CEO of Burch s company in early 2019 and Burch became Executive Chairman and Chief Creative Officer 91 92 1 The couple had been dating since 2014 and became engaged in 2016 93 Forbes magazine estimated that she was a billionaire with a net worth of 1 0 billion in 2013 94 She is worth approximately 850 million as of 2019 95 References edit a b c About Us ToryBurch com Retrieved January 22 2019 a b The World s 100 Most Powerful Women 73 Tory Burch Forbes Archived from the original on September 20 2022 Retrieved December 25 2020 a b c d About Tory Burch ToryBurch com Archived from the original on July 8 2007 Retrieved August 14 2008 Lutz Ashley February 11 2014 How Tory Burch Became A Fashion Billionaire In Less Than A Decade Business Insider a b c d e Shnayerson Michael February 1 2007 An Empire Of Her Own Vanity Fair Retrieved October 18 2014 New York City Examining The Halacha If Jewish Fashion Mogul Needs A Get 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