Toe hold: Taryn Rose fled Vietnam at 8, starting a journey that led to medical school and high-fashion design.A Vietnamese refugee whorled whorled adj. Having, arranged in, or forming whorls or a whorl. Saigon as it fell in 1975, Taryn Rose landed in Fort Smith, Ark., at the age of 8. Her family moved to Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, while she was in high school, and she attended the USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. Medical School with the intention of becoming an orthopedic surgeon. But in 1998, after seeing a number of her patients suffering damage from high-heels--as well as experiencing her own struggles to find comfortable, stylish shoes that could hold up under her 14-hour days as a resident--she decided to start a footwear company. Rose, 37, now heads Taryn Rose International, which employs 64 and is projected to reach $20 million in 2004 sales. Her products are available at high-end department stores This is a list of department stores. In the case of department store groups the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. and in company-owned boutiques in Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. . New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. . A fourth will open in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. later this year. Question: It seems your life, and your career, have been marked by a series of very stressful transitions. Did leaving Vietnam under pressure inform your approach to things? Answer: We left three days before the fall. At the time, no men were allowed to leave, so when my father left the bus to get onto the plane, he had to wear a woman's blouse and carry my two younger sisters to hide his face. I remember the take-off: the machine guns going off, artillery fire trying to stop the plane from leaving. Maybe that's part of my need for speed. I wasn't frightened, I thought about it as an adventure. I'm not surprised I became a surgeon because it's an intense, risky field. Then I became an entrepreneur to keep standing on the edge. I'm an adrenaline junkie junkie Popular health A popular term for a person, usually an IV narcotic abusing addict, whose life is disorganized vis-á-vis family and societal structure, whose existence revolves around obtaining–often through theft, prostitution or other illicit . Q: Your first stop in the States was Fort Smith, Ark. What was that transition like? A: It was a real blessing because the people were so kind, so welcoming and helpful from adults down to children. I can still remember my very first little friend, a beautiful blond little girl who helped me on the playground. I didn't speak any English. The first phrase I learned was, "Do you want a bite?" It was from a little girl who offered to share her popsicle with me during recess. Q: How did you come to medicine? A: I was undecided whether I would go into law or medicine. My legacy was in medicine (her lather was a pathologist). So, I went into medicine, probably because it was just the easier route to take because it came naturally to me and it avoided a lot of family issues. I didn't want to have to deal with that revolution at that time. Q: Yet you had just completed your residency when you decided to leave medicine and start the footwear company. A: I started to see female patients who came in with foot problems, and I also started to look for footwear that I could wear for long hours while I was working. I realized that there was a big need for footwear that combined great design, high quality materials as well as comfort. Q: What was the transition like? A: It took a lot of soul-searching. I slowly started to make contacts; it was much more transitional than abrupt. It wasn't like one day I just said, "I'm quitting." It got to the point where I had taken my boards and I felt like, now is the time to move on because if I continue down the track of patient care, it will be more difficult to leave down the line, because I'd be abandoning more patients. Q: Who guided you through the process? A: I didn't really have any advisers. I contacted Miranda Morrison, a very talented designer at Siegerson Morrison. Their shoes are very successful. Miranda gave me a name of her manufacturer in Italy and talked to me about the different trade shows in Europe I should attend. Q: You've since dropped that manufacturer. What happened? A: They were counterfeiters. They would make the same shoes and try to sell them for less. It's actually a very common practice, but that doesn't mean that you have to put up with it. Q: How did you learn about the counterfeiting? A: Our segment of the industry is quite small. Everything gets back to us. Our retailers police what's going out on the street. It was a phone call from a client who said, "We just want you to know this is happening"--a competing retailer sent in an ad that used our shoes and our name to promote these counterfeit shoes. Q: Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. isn't exactly a hotbed hotbed, low, glass-covered frame structure for starting tender plants. It differs from a cold frame only in that the soil is heated—either artificially as by underground electric wiring or steampipes, or naturally with partially fermented stable manure, which for footwear designers. Why have you chosen to remain here? A: I'm a firm believer in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or . It is my hope that one day we can actually purchase a building and have permanent corporate offices in downtown Los Angeles. I'm in love with the diversity of cultures and the economic diversity down here. From a fashion point of view, this is where a lot of the youthful, more casual trends start. You can always pick some element of that and interpret it to the higher-end consumer by using higher-end, more exotic materials. Q: Have you built the company with people who had experience at competitors? A: Typically not. I prefer to hire young talents who haven't developed bad habits. It took years, but I finally have a team I feel is right on. Out of our entire employee mix, we have four to five team members who came from other shoe companies. The others are either out of school or came from a different industry. Q: Who was the best hire? A: I wouldn't name one person. We work very much as a team here. Q: What about the worst? A: There have been a lot of employee traumas--people who are just generally unhappy people and have to drag everyone else down with them, incompetent people who try to hide it. Most of it is the interpersonal skills "Interpersonal skills" refers to mental and communicative algorithms applied during social communications and interactions in order to reach certain effects or results. The term "interpersonal skills" is used often in business contexts to refer to the measure of a person's ability . I had one person who had many years of experience in the industry. She was used to running a much smaller business, but there's a big difference between a $5 million business and a $20 million business. Q: You've described yourself as a workaholic work·a·hol·ic n. One who has a compulsive and unrelenting need to work. . Has that contributed to your divorce? A: I think so. I'm a workaholic, but that doesn't mean I don't care
"Don't Care" is a 1994 (see 1994 in music) single by American death metal band Obituary. . I work very hard to look after my children, which means being with a partner who has an understanding of my schedule and my needs to fulfill that schedule. Q: What was the first high-end retailer to carry your shoes, and how difficult was it to get them to take the line? A: The first was Nordstrom, and it was not easy. I was shopping in the shoe department and I knew the buyer's name. I just kept looking at (employees') name tags, and when I met her I said, "Would you please give me an appointment?" It takes a lot of boldness to just walk up to a buyer and say, "Buy my shoes." They asked if I could deliver them, and of course I was very confident. I had no choice. I had to succeed. I met with the buyer and just sold the shoes myself. They gave me a $20,000 opening order. Q: Why have you focused mostly at high-end retailers? A: It allows me to create product without having to worry about hitting a certain price point. It's a safer market, too, because it tends to be more insulated from economic problems. If they're cutting back, they're cutting back on a new luxury car or second home. They're not cutting back on their footwear. Q: Has anyone approached you about buying the company? A: Yes. I've been approached by investment firms. For me, it's more about finding the right partnership. Capital is one thing, but having the same mission and influence is very important to have the fight synergy. I do think that at a certain point I need to be very open to it because I feel that I don't want to miss the window of opportunity. Q: Are yours considered orthopedic shoes orthopedic shoes A term coined by the shoe industry, not by the orthopedic community at large; OSs may harm a normal child's foot as they are too stiff. See Orthosis. ? A: No. However, they do fit the needs of many people who have issues with their feet. They are not designed to solve problems, they're designed to prevent problems and to bring that added value Added value in financial analysis of shares is to be distinguished from value added. Used as a measure of shareholder value, calculated using the formula:
Q: Sarah Jessica Parker's character in "Sex and the City" obsessed ob·sess v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es v.tr. To preoccupy the mind of excessively. v.intr. over her stiletto shoes from Manolo Blahnik Manolo Blahnik (born November 27, 1942) is a Spanish fashion designer and an eponymous fashion label, one of the world's most prominent in women's shoes. Born in Santa Cruz de La Palma in the Canary Islands to a Czech father and a Spanish mother and raised on a banana and Jimmy Choo. What do you think of the glamour associated with high heels? A: I own a really good archive of Manolo Blahniks. I am a great admirer of his. For that type of shoe, they are very well designed. Now, that's like me saying, "I love chocolate ice cream." Is it something you should eat every day? No, not if you want to maintain good health. It's the same thing with footwear. I encourage women to indulge and enjoy--on an occasional basis--beautiful, fabulous shoes. But do it in moderation because you may end up paying the price in pain and in some cases having surgery. INTERVIEW Taryn Rose Title: Founder and Chief Executive Company: Taryn Rose International Born: Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, city (1997 pop. 5,250,000), on the right bank of the Saigon River, a tributary of the Dong Nai, Vietnam. , Vietnam, 1967 Education: B.A., philosophy, B.S., biology, University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). , Irvine, 1988; medical degree, USC School of Medicine Career Turning Point: As an orthopedic surgeon, seeing patients whose feet had been damaged by fashion footwear and experiencing her own discomfort after 14-hour days in heels Most Admired People: Her grandmother; Virgin Group Founder Richard Branson; Meg Whitman, eBay's president and chief executive Hobbies: Working, occasional golf Personal: Divorcing, two children |
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