Posts Tagged ‘trendsetter’

An Affair to Forget: Today, Rebranding Becomes Him (Petraeus, Et Al)

An Affair to Forget: Today, Rebranding Becomes Him (Petraeus, Et Al)

[Originally posted on Forbes.com.] Years ago I wanted to write a book, Another Woman: From Cleopatra to Marla, but now that seems to take us only halfway through the evolution of the mistress. After Marla Maples, who secretly dated Donald Trump for two years in the ’80s while he was still married to Ivana (before [...]


Five Things I Learned from Madonna

Five Things I Learned from Madonna

Today, Madonna turned 53. If there’s one singer who grew up right along with me, it was Madonna. Her music was a soundtrack for my life for quite a while. And I learned a lot from her brilliant ability to home in on trends and street culture with stylish aplomb and keep making hits. In [...]