Kimberly Ovitz releases Fall/Winter Fashion Line

Michael Ovitz' daughter, fashion designer Kimberly Ovitz, recently released her Fall/Winter fashion line at the prestigious New York Fashion Week to a number of favorable reviews. Check out this review in style.com, which includes commentary on the entire line.

Some of the questions posed to Kimberly Ovitz inevitably surrounded the white dress she designed, infamously worn by Lindsay Lohan in a recent court appearance. From the L.A. Times:

"The dress, designed by Kimberly Ovitz, sold out around the country within hours. It was so popular, Ovitz is recutting it. 'It's actually one of the styles we do every season,' she said at the presentation of her fall line at Pace Gallery. 'It's called the Glavis dress.'

Best part is, the whole thing was news to her. 'I found out when TMZ called me to confirm it was mine,' Ovitz said. 'She bought it on her own.'

Asked if she would have worn the dress to court, Ovitz demurred, 'I hope I am never in a position where I have to think about that.'

An appropriately dignified response from a classy designer. Look for good things to come from Kimberly Ovitz.

Read the full style.com review of Kimberly Ovitz' fashion line here.

Michael Ovitz - People Magazine

Michael Ovitz appeared in this 1990 People Magazine article; read the full article here and an excerpt below:

"Michael Ovitz added the top line to his credit crawl by providing a service usually performed by Wall Street investment houses. His take on the MCA deal: a reported $40 million. Last year, Ovitz did a push-up to this task by marrying Sony to Columbia Pictures Entertainment. "Hollywood is about relationships," a well-connected TV producer once said, "and everybody today wants an even warmer relationship with Mike.

So as Hollywood slides across the Pacific Rim to Japan, the man greasing the wheel is Ovitz, the 44-year-old superagent who. as chairman of Creative Artists Agency, has assembled an unparalleled stable of actors, directors and screenwriters. Among them: Madonna, Kevin Costner, Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Sylvester Stallone, Cher and Ovitz's former aikido instructor, Steven Seagal.

Much of Ovitz's most-powerful-man rep still comes from "packaging" clients-actors, directors and writers—to make films like GoodFellas (Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, director Martin Scorsese and writer Nicholas Pileggi). And he pulls all these strings with consummate skill. Says Disney Chairman Michael Eisner: "He's among the most tenacious people one would ever meet."

Click here for the full article.

Michael Ovitz - Ad Age People of the Century

Ad Age recently released its list of most important people of the century in the advertising industry. Among them is Michael Ovitz, which may come as a surprise to those less familiar with the totality of his career. Michael Ovitz' impact on advertising has been substantial; in 1991 he signed Coca-Cola to Creative Artists Agency, a move which forever effected the relationship between traditional advertising agencies and their clients. With alternative 'a la carte' options available to high profile clients, traditional agencies were forced to modify their practices in order to keep up. Indeed, the CAA campaign for Coca Cola was highly successful and inventive: it yielded the now famous animated polar bears drinking Coca-Cola in a surreal winter wonderland.

Read the full Michael Ovitz entry here.