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Article: JUDITH LEIBER THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX.
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- WWD
- Article date:
- October 3, 2005
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Byline: Jennifer Hirshlag
NEW YORK -- Judith Leiber increasingly wants to be a house that can go from day to night.
The New York-based luxury brand is renowned for its jeweled evening minaudieres that have been carried by every first lady since Mamie Eisenhower, sit in most museum costume collections and can take up to five days to complete, as some styles involve the hand application of 12,000 Austrian crystals to their surfaces.
But at the age of 42 -- seven years after the company's founder and namesake retired and five years after its takeover by private equity firm Pegasus Capital Advisors -- Judith Leiber is firmly establishing a ...