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Sources say that he wants the Tory Burch company to have an I.P.O., which Tory doesn’t want right now, though she would consider one at some point in the future. As in any psychoanalysis, he begins with questions about your father.” With the foresight to recognize that the Web was going to change the world, Chris became the first investor in Internet Capital Group, one of the early Web-based B2B businesses. )Chris could have told Tory to take a hike on the C. Wonder issue, except, according to a source, he had a problem: he was starting to burn cash. They had three children, all daughters: Alexandra "Pookie" (b. “You could argue that C. Wonder’s very existence diminishes the value of the Tory Burch business,” says Douglas Hand, a fashion-and-apparel-industry lawyer at the firm HBA L.L.P. Chris married Susan Cole, the beautiful daughter of a private-school art teacher, and bought a massive Georgian home as the business, Eagle’s Eye (the name was an … He claims that he showed Tory designs for a variety of items, including handbags, apparel, shoes, and homeware, in Southampton in 2011. “It wasn’t a list of things. “She had brown hair and I like blondes.” Her ambition? “No,” says the industry veteran. “The fact that [Chris] plagiarized the DNA of the Tory Burch brand shows that he is not that clever. He boarded at the Tilton School, in New Hampshire, instead, where he learned to cope with his learning disabilities, and then matriculated at Ithaca College. Veteran retailer Chris Burch sold most of his 28.3% stake in his ex-wife's fashion brand, Tory Burch LLC, for $650 million in late 2012, going on to join the Forbes Billionaires List in 2013. Instead, she set up shop in the kitchen at the Pierre, sons underfoot. When the sweaters first arrived in the U.S., they were several sizes too small. In 2011, Burch and his partner Austin Hearst completed the development of a $19 million luxury home developments in Nantucket, Burch was on the board of the Rothman Institute Orthopedic Foundation. The castle had been coming off the hill of high fashion for a while—these days, with Olivier Theyskens at Theory, Karl Lagerfeld selling to Macy’s, and Sonia Rykiel doing a deal at H&M, the trend is almost a cliché—but then it took some foresight to know that the brand would work if the price was kept low. He suffered from “A.D.D., A.D.H.D.—they didn’t know what it was then,” he says. Wonder is an experience Tory Burch is an upscale womenswear destination.” It would have been easy enough for Chris to ignore Tory if she had been the only one upset—but he had to deal with the Tory Burch board. He is referring to Nihiwatu, a small enclave on the island of Sumba, in Indonesia. Though Chris’s first marriage didn’t last, it was a happy time in his life. He studied at Ithaca College and started his own business in 1976. Chris says he’s been flying over a million miles a year, mostly to Asia, for years. The divorce proceedings took about two years—there was no pre-nuptial agreement—but eventually the couple came to terms, which included Tory remaining in the Pierre, while Chris took up residence at the Carlyle hotel. “[Pookie and Louisa] were like, ‘We don’t want anyone to know that you’re involved with this business, under any circumstances, for any reason.’ I was like, ‘You know, I have a little experience.’ ” He laughs. Dr. Paul Elmen performed the Episcopal ceremony in the Clark Memorial Chapel at the Pomfret School.Lindsey Cole was maid of honor for her sister and Robert Burch was his brother's best man. In Shanghai, his brother Chip once went with Chris “to the massage place where he loves to go, and they line you up in La-Z-Boys, and someone’s working on your hands, and someone on your feet … getting your ears done and your nose done and watching a video and holding a meeting—and he’s never once coming up for air,” says Chip. J. Christopher Burch was born on March 28, 1953 to Mr. and Mrs. John Walter Burch of St. David’s, Pa. With money in his pocket, he rented an office in New York—that’s where he and Tory struck up a friendship that would turn to romance.Tory, who went to the exclusive Agnes Irwin School, is Jewish but was raised celebrating Christmas and Easter in Valley Forge, where her parents owned a 250-year-old Georgian house. Chris, along with his friends from the Main Line—many of whom have small percentages of the Tory business—is inspired by the success of other fashion companies on the public markets. Notably absent was Tory’s ex-husband and the co-founder of her company, Chris Burch, a jovial 59-year-old with a welcoming, casual attitude that includes speaking in a garmento’s patois and losing his train of thought every few moments.

The children are lovely, by all accounts. Is it thanks to, or in spite of, her former husband Chris Burch, who has launched his own, Tory-esque line of shops, C. Wonder, while still sitting on her company’s board?

“A little kid going, hyper, ‘Hi, it’s Chris, did you really know Jimmy Stewart?