I’m very pleased with the response to my neckwear blog from yesterday. Some of the responders were people I mentioned in the blog.

Greg Shugar, founder of TheTieBar.com, commented, adding that “our industry will continue to decline until we again create the demand for neckties.” He’s interested in (re)creating a neckwear trade group, and asks that anyone...

Amid all the canned wisdom that percolates during a recession, we hear a lot of contradictory predictions about neckwear: Guys won’t buy a new suit because it’s too expensive—they’ll update their wardrobes with new furnishings and Ties never change, so guys will raid the backs of their closets when they need to wear ties for interviews. We hear that men...

My focus for the first day of the Las Vegas trade shows was neckwear. Starting at MRket, and then going upstairs to a fifth floor ballroom for Capsule, I was overwhelmed by vendors new and old who were making some great efforts to make the category both interesting and affordable. Here are some highlights:

Lochcarron

I usually stop by the Lochcarron...

After a couple of seasons without any men’s fragrance vendors at MRket, the New York show opened with two new ones: the distributor EuroPerfumes and the Italian custom perfumer Officine del Profumo.

I was particularly excited about EuroPerfumes, which was exhibiting in the new Vanguard show adjacent to MRket. The company, headed by Vicken Arslanian,...

We’ve had a lot of office conversations about iPhone apps here at MR Magazine, both professional and social. The general consensus is that apps are good for retailers and apparel brands. I’ve downloaded three apparel-related apps to my iPhone: one is the ill-fated PMc Magazine app (an iPhone-only fashion mag from photographer Patrick McMullan); next was...