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- <text id=91TT2100>
- <title>
- Sep. 23, 1991: Business Notes:New York
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 23, 1991 Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 45
- Business Notes
- NEW YORK
- End of A Dream
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- <p> In the roaring '80s, Carolyn Roehm became the archetype of
- what Tom Wolfe called the social X ray: a super-thin, high-profile
- fashion designer who consorted with the ultra-rich and married
- multimillionaire leveraged-buyout-king Henry Kravis. With
- Kravis' backing, she launched her own couture in 1985 and
- specialized in luxe items like ball gowns that cost as much as
- $6,000 each.
- </p>
- <p> But Carolyn Roehm, Inc., suffered from management shuffles
- and poor sales. Last week Roehm, 40, suddenly announced that
- she was shutting down. The Wall Street Journal reported that
- Kravis had invested more than $20 million in his wife's anemic
- business since 1985 and had grown weary of the financial drain.
- While that may be true in part, Roehm says the real catalyst for
- her decision was the tragic death of Kravis' 19-year-old son
- Harrison in a July automobile accident.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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