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...surprisingly this Swiss family company, now helmed by Alice's grandsons Albert and Peter Kriemler?the designer and the president, respectively?is lauded by retailers for its precise deliveries and perfect execution (at the factory, each garment is accompanied by a dossier explaining what needs to be done and what can go wrong) as well as for actually listening to what stores want. When Joseph Boitano, a senior vice president of Saks Fifth Avenue, explained the importance of offering a cruise collection (a concept less established in Europe), Albert headed to Florida, where he spent weeks studying what chic women...
Robert Burke, who heads his own consulting business in New York City and was previously with Bergdorf Goodman, says a single salesperson there writes several million dollars' worth of orders for the label each season. Burke even mentions Albert Kriemler, whose name is still far from well known, within the designer superleague: "Albert is unwavering in who he is appealing to. You look at the great designers?Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Giorgio Armani?and what links them is they stick to their own aesthetic, they stick with their customer...
...Gallen is not where you would expect to find the next Armani. Yet being based not only in Switzerland?which has one of the most expensive labor forces in the world?but in a little town bordering the Appenzell region is an advantage, insists Albert Kriemler. He is not what you would expect of a fashion designer, given that he is rather serious and erudite (his references can include modern art and Russian philosophy). Being isolated means that the tailors and technicians he collaborates with, all of them full time and many with the company for years, think Akris from...
...couple of hours in a place where they're safe from all offense except a plethora of bathroom jokes. But this year even the comedies scored low on the raunchometer. I yield to no one in my admiration for Talladega Nights (how many movies about NASCAR doofuses contain an Albert Camus joke?), but face it, folks, it was no Forty Year Old Virgin. It wasn't even Wedding Crashers. That is to say, it was genial, goofy, a little too relaxed and, when it came to the whole man-woman thing, pretty much stuck in the latency stage...
...called Albert Mohler, president of the 16-million member Southern Baptist Convention's Southern Theological Seminary and thus one of Evangelicalism's most influential theologians. He told me "It's simple...