I started my morning at the Doneger presentation where men’s fashion analyst Tim Bess touched upon upcoming trends in the Young men’s market. He talked about the importance of color, updated plaids, and dressing up. Bess predicts British influences and retro styles, (especially from the 80s) with extreme washes and color blocking to be big for fall 2009....

Over the holidays my mom and I were looking at old family photos and we stumbled across this one of my grandfather circa 1963. Thomas Garrity (granddaddy to me and my brother) made fashion choices that were heavily influenced by my grandmother Gloria. She was always dressed to the nines, and wanted her counterpart to do same. In this photo he looks like a...

Wednesday night, web editor Harry Sheff and I attended a GQ-sponsored event for Ray Ban at Bloomingdale’s SoHo store. It was a consumer event, but we thought we’d stop by to see the turn-out. After trying on a few pairs of Aviators and Wayfarers and sipping fruity, brightly colored drinks, we made our way up to the cologne counter on the street...

Tuesday afternoon’s 2009 Fashion Scholarship Fund Roundtable was appropriately themed “Redesigning the rules of fashion in today’s economy.” Moderator Tim Gunn began with, “These are trying times, but I’m confident we’ll end up in a better place.” I couldn’t help but think—these students are lucky they’re still in college. Hopefully by their graduation the...

Screaming girls, shirtless guys, and…polo shirts with moose emblems? Hmm, these three things don’t seem to go together, unless you’re at New York City’s Fifth Avenue Abercrombie store.

Lately, there are more articles about teens feeling the economic pinch. When MRketplace.com reported September’s same-store sales, Abercrombie's had dropped 14 percent...