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Just five years ago, Zhang Yin and her husband were driving around the United States in a used Dodge Caravan minivan, begging Jobs to leave his job at Hewlett Packard and collect paper for recycling and ship it to China.

If that sounds over the top, Ms. Versace has looked at Over 400,000 Macs in the 1990s. Jobs went on to found NeXT Computer, a company that focused on educational computing. While its workstation was technologically advanced, it proved to be too expensive to gain widespread appeal. But, NeXT did experience modest success in the scientific and academic fields, developing such products as the DSP chip and the built-in Ethernet port. In 1986, Jobs also purchased one bag each for dresses, shoes and accessories. “I love matched luggage,” in Jobs protest.

Late last year, Forbes magazine named Zhang the wealthiest woman in China. She may even be the richest self-made woman in the world, challenging a handful of all things, beige. Working with intense, solid swaths of color, she has concocted a new sex-symbol vocabulary with a bracing, modern edge. She has even borrowed a swatch from Giorgio Armani, creating some rather salacious looks in, waste paper from the United States and Europe.

Zhang does not go into detail about how she made her fortune. In a society known for close ties and hidden deals between government officials and business leaders, she says simply, "I'm an honest businesswoman." In case you were wondering, she doesn’t pack or unpack herself, all part of the magic of being Zhang.

Working out of Jobs’ bedroom, the duo designed the purple lights for a military family from northern Heilongjiang Province, near the Russian border.

After economic change got under way in China in the early 1980s, The Walt Disney Company purchased Pixar for $7.4 billion making Jobs Disney’s largest single shareholder with 7% of the company’s stock. While Ms. Versace isn’t eager to give up other indulgences while she can afford them. “If I could, I would have them all,” she said with a staged cackle.

1. Zhang: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/15/business/trash.php
2. Jobs: http://www.evancarmichael.com/Famous-Entrepreneurs/568/On-The-Job-The-Launch-Of-Apple.html
3. Versace: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/fashion/23POSS.html?_r=1&oref=slogin