“I thought my boss was going to kill me,” Andrew Weisbrot, national sales director at Brioni, confided about a comment he made to a customer at Richards in Greenwich in front of Brioni USA president Todd Barrato.

It was at a recent trunk show at Richards when a loyal Brioni customer walked over to Weisbrot and said he needed a navy suit. “I happened to...

I thought I was going to yet another fashion industry dinner honoring VIP industry executives with proceeds going to yet another worthy cause. (Not that I don’t love these dinners: I’m always so proud of our industry for its fundraising abilities and the many worthy causes we support!) But much to my surprise, the dinner crowd at Cipriani this past Thursday...

Let me start by stating my admiration for both Lord & Taylor and Joseph Abboud for collaborating on a store brand concept that places product over label. We all know how many meaningless designer names abound; how refreshing the belief that quality and design can trump superficial status labels!

That said, the purpose of my original blog was simply to...

Who cares about Sarah’s hairdresser? MR’s got the exclusive on Barack’s barber!

“I saw a ton of Black & Blue men’s wear in Lord & Taylor,” a shopping-savvy friend of mine recently commented, knowing I’m in the business. “What’s the story there? It’s pretty expensive for an unknown brand. And they’ve got so much of it: I assume it must have been a close-out that they got a good deal on…”

Interesting, how much consumer perception can...