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Like all great merchants, Drexler is a relentless store walker, picking up details on operations, fashion and consumer behavior like so much lint. "You can get numbers, but there's no flavor," says Drexler, who fell in love with retail during a summer job at the now defunct Abraham & Straus department store exactly because he wasn't deskbound. After stints at Bloomingdale's and Macy's, he became ceo of Ann Taylor and revived the company, which got the attention of Gap founder Donald Fisher. It has all contributed to an almost eerie command of what's happening around...
...think cashmere sweaters), avoiding the race to the bottom by refusing to woo price-conscious consumers and sell ever cheaper clothes made with ever cheaper labor--a trend driven by discounters like Wal-Mart and Kohl's that has rippled to specialty shops. He has also taken away the fashion-by-engineering ethic that made J. Crew predictably boring...
...flawless and neither is Drexler. In the fall of 2005, J. Crew stocked heavy sweaters and classic styles, then watched the temperature rise and shoppers recede. Yet that misstep paled next to the one that ended his reign at Gap in the late 1990s, when Drexler overreacted to fast-fashion chains like H&M and took Gap trendy, alienating its core khaki customer. That call, exacerbated by an overaggressive store expansion, led to his forced resignation...
Some women get weekly artificial tans and pedicures, revealed faithfully every Friday night by mini-skirts and stilettos. While I am secretly impressed by their die-hard commitment to fashion in the recent below-zero temperatures, I have found a much simpler means of garnishing male attention—abstinence: the utility of which is unimaginable except by those who experience it on a regular basis. In addition to preserving health and happiness, virginity is extremely alluring—even in sweatpants...
...readership is exactly like you: Don’t bother with readers who might differ from you in their perspectives or backgrounds. Are you rich, white, preppy, and racially insensitive? Then why not build your Princeton “outsider cred” by sticking this line into your fashion review: “The first pink polo shirt I ever saw on a male…was six sizes too big on the back of a huge black dude with diamond earrings that were way bigger than the ones my grandparents gave me for my bat mitzvah...