It is more than a shoe.

Even Tory was afraid.

She is not taking this lying down…in her super cute shoes!

Tory Burch and Sarah Blakely are billionaire newbies.

Power and a little romance on the side.

Someone is a sore loser. Businessman Chris Burch, ex-husband of fashion mogul Tory Burch and founder of C.Wonder, is not great at not saying anything at all when he doesn’t have anything nice to say. Chris slung plenty of insults when he was suing his ex-wife for not letting him sell his shares in the company while she simultaneously sued him for ripping off her designs, and even though they settled on New Year’s Day he’s still determined to get his licks in.

Selling all those shoes really paid off.

Tory Burch is pretty much plastered to the news this week — she had her star-studded show at New York Fashion Week this morning and the story of her legal battles with her ex-husband grace the pages of the latest issue of New York magazine. Here’s the cherry on top: now everyone’s asking if she’ll go public.

Just a few years into the business, she’s doing half a billion dollars of sales a year. And mentoring women along the way.

Walking into the pink and orange prepster heaven that is the Tory Burch headquarters in Manhattan Thursday night, you might have thought you’d stumbled into a fashion industry insiders’ cabal. In one corner of the room was the meticulously appointed J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler. In another, makeup guru Bobbi Brown, charming guests with plain-spoken industry wisdom.

You’d think it was the meeting of an insider’s club. That is, until you noticed the army of women toting wheelie luggage, who had travelled from both near and far to glean wisdom from the dozen or so business icons in the room. Because this was no fashionista playground; it was just the latest of Tory Burch’s efforts to help put more women in business.