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He's gone from clerk to CEO twice. Mark is classic proof that the American
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Mark Webber. Mark Webber, New York City. It's a great city,
the city of energy, a city that never sleeps. The clubs, the
theater, of the restaurants, Wall Street, the financial district, opportunity for
anyone in the world. There's always something to do in New York City.
This plenty of great. But we're a stupid city. It's dirty. But
we've become a sanctuary city. Does that make sense. We're filled with migrants,
undocumented the people, illegal, immigrants, asylum seekers, call them what
you will. I'm sure there are nice people there. I'm sure there are
many, many good people, but we're inundated. There's no place to put
them. The streets are crowded. Their living in squalor. There's problems.
New York was already a city that was overcrowded. Drive through New York.
The lanes are blocked off. You can't get through, and if a sanitation
truck happens to appear, it'll hold up thousands of cars, blocking side streets,
making motorists late and frustrated. Then there are the bicycles. What a
story. They're supposed to be a safe way to traverse the city. They
may be helping climate change with less busses, less cars, less strains needed.
How did that work out? Did anyone envision the electric bikes and creating
new hazards. We're dodging electric rocket ships every time we crossed the street,
yes, and also putting strains on the electric grid. Thnsday is the issue
of crime. Crime is rampant. We can't be comfortable, we can't be
safe, and we're victims or predators. Politicians they're great at creating problems yet
not solving them. That's our New York. But New York is still the
greatest city in the world. I remember making lifelong enemies at the boardroom table
in France saying that to my French counterparts. They didn't like it one bit.
They called me out. They said Paris was the greatest city in the
world. I stand by it. Paris may be the most beautiful, it
can't be the best because there's New York City. As I say it,
I have to admit I always believed uncategorically, with no reservation. My belief
was unconditional. There's no question what I believe in this city. Hey,
there are other American cities who could vie for the best. Good luck foreigners,
they can vie for the best. But let's be honest. Europe,
Paris, Rome, London, Milan, they got their own problems. The
Far East is congested, overpopulated, air pollution, the worst tensions. They
got issues. The Mideast is making a rebound. Money invested, new kingdoms
and rules always rules, but they seem to be changing for the better.
I read that cities on Australia have the worst pollution in the world. Go
figure Australia, No, I think about it. New York City, with
all of its down turns, is not alone. The rest of the world
doesn't seem to be much better. The point is, that's another Saturday night,
another Sunday in New York, another exciting week. Our city's a mess,
but it's ours. So let's tonight talk about another week in New York
City. Now, from a sports point of view, I've lost interest in
the Yankees. That's shocking. I was so invested last year. I watched,
I taped every single game. Halfway through the season, I realized there
was a lost cause they couldn't get arrested. They are a mess. What
happened to our Yankees? Can't watch him? I did get excited about Aaron
Rodgers, the great One, joining us with the Jets. A lot of
hype, lot of hype that lasted fifteen minutes in playing time. He got
injured. The US Open came and went, and I was amazing. Two
weeks in the city and now the world's celebrities, the world's power brokers,
the world's press is descending on New York City. It's fashion Week. With
this, there's lots to talk about. Now joining me and exploring New York
City another week as my lawyer, my son, my co host Jesse Webber
they're good to see you, good to speak to you. Yeah, New
York City not the New York City that we knew before the pandemic. I'll
tell you that much. It's not as bad as it was, but it
is not good. Let me tell you. Like sometimes remember that movie Escaped
from New York. That's what it kind of looks like. Yeah, and
look. Not to be insensitive, not to be insendive, but one of
the big issues is the migrant crisis in the city. Did you know that
New York has a right to Shelter law? What does it mean? It
means that if you come to New York and you are in need of a
home, if you're needing shelter, if you're in need of food, new
York has the supply to you no choice. New York is under an obligation
to shelter and feed all these people. How did they get here? They're
transported here? Why is that? Because we're a sanctuary city. We're trying
to do good things at who's expense. By the way, I read an
article the other day that the police are cutting back on overtime to pay for
the migrants. There's not enough money in the city budget and of course,
our beloved mayor said we're in deep trouble. Yeah, it's interesting you say
that because I can never find a police officer after eight pm any night.
And then, by the way, the governor was talking about giving work authorizations
to the migrants. You like that idea, giving them jobs. Yeah,
at the expense of other people that I don't know. That's the question.
Are there enough jobs to go around? I believe in giving work to people.
The more work you give people, the more dignity they'll have, the
better they feel about themselves. And yes, I would support giving them work,
but I wonder whether or not there are people looking for those same jobs
who can't find work now. It seems to me there are more jobs than
people right now, but who knows. So that's my answer. They're trying
to figure out something because they realize how much of how big of a disaster
it is. And you feel bad for all the people who are sleeping out
in tents and everything. But on a different note, on a lighter note,
on a more positive note, for New York City, New York was
the center because of the US Open and you mentioned the Open. I love
what we did on Sunday. Are you and me. That was great.
I want to explain it. So we taped the final match between Djokovic and
whoever Djokovic played, and we didn't watch it live. We taped it.
You and I went out to dinner at at a country club. We avoided
the television. It was all over the television. We avoided people. You
know, we're gonna get spoiled here. People are gonna ruin for We completely
put like headphones on. We didn't go near anybody. We go home and
then we watched the final together on a big screen TV. I thought that
was a great moment. That was awesome. Wait, that was priceless.
But what happened when your wife came back from her bridal shower. Yes,
this was not her finest moment. So we're sitting on the couch, we're
in the middle of the match. She first says to me, oh,
I just saw on Instagram who won? Shows It was posted forty five minutes
ago. And when she said it to me, it was after Djokovic had
already won two sets. He only needed to win one. More So,
the fact that she told me forty five minutes ago it was posted who won,
there was no way the other guy could win. So she basically ruined
the US Open for me, and then she ruined it for you. Well,
if you told her, why would she tell me? I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know either, Jesse. I think I
told her. She's banned from talking sports in this family, and she's not
the first one. I don't want to hear anything. They don't know how
it works. Why ruin it? It was still great and we did the
right thing, and I'm glad. But you know what ruined the Open for
me more than anything? What's that? The clothes? You mean the way
people were dressed or the way the players were dressed. No, the people
there were the mutants, and they were well dressed. It was divided,
maybe fifty fifty. There were people who knew how to dressed the people who
didn't. But no, the fashion at the Open, the professionals, the
clothes, the uniforms that they were were horrendous. Carlos Alcaraz was wearing no
sleeves cut off at the armholes. It was like terrible looking and print with
shorts that didn't match. And she was he was terrible. The women's dresses
were so frumpy, so unpleasant, so ugly, and again and strange colors.
None of them looked good. Coco Gough, amazing player, determined,
zeroed in beat the number two seed. Her outfit was horrendous. Djokovic every
day wore these colors that weren't normal to humankind. They were blues that nobody
would choose that color. The last day he picked a decent blue, but
everything looked horrendously bad. Other sense of the mean, it's better at Wimbledon.
All they do is wear white or versions of outfits and white. Maybe
that's the case. But the fashion at the US Open was terrible. By
the way, it's funny that you say that, because you and Jared we're
all over the US Open on the jumbo troum, not once, but a
million times. Everybody saw you guys on television. I was getting tons of
messages on social media, text messages of you guys. Everybody saw you too.
It might have been the way that you guys looked, and maybe you
were dressed. The camera kept panning to you. I think it was the
white dress shirts, kind of the sophisticated look. Maybe they saw you as
like a father and son duo, the casual elegant, the long hair.
I don't know, but the camera kept panning on you. Guys, just
goes to show you. You got a lot of texts. Jared got a
lot of texts. I got none. It reinforces I used to be important.
I'm not anymore talking about important. This is funny. Did I tell
you about the sightings? The sightings? What do you mean the sightings?
So Jared and I are shopping around in the US Open boutique and three guys
come over to me. They looked of Indian descent. The one who was
the Olsen for the three says I know you. And I looked at him
and I said I don't think so he says I know you, and I
didn't think twice as I'm sorry, I don't know you. And the three
of them walked away. And you know what, they said, you're Jesse
Webber's father. No, not quite. They walked away and talked to each
other. That's Ralph Lauren. And two seconds later some other guy, American
guy and his wife come up and they said to me, it's great seeing
you shop in your own store. Two people thought it was Ralph Lauren.
Now I would trade Ralph Lauren for his money. I would trade him for
success. I would trade him for the brain power that he put. But
he's twenty years old. To me, I could do without that. And
by the way, do I look as old as Ralph Lauren? No?
No, no, no, no no no. And you're also taller than
him, by the way, Yeah, that goes without saying. But these
people don't know. But anyway, I was spotted as Ralph Lauren. Maybe
that's why they kept coming to Jared and I on TV. Anyway, I
made me think of that. It was an amazing night. I had a
great time in Queens. Enough of Queens will take a break when we get
back Paris, Egypt, the rest of the world, of course, with
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What are you doing when you're at home? What are you wearing to the
movies? What are you wearing to go out at night when you're no longer
wearing your spring clothes? And here we are in full and I can tell
you what it is. Pole of fleece, French dairy, different kinds of
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much I enjoy this brand. Welcome back to Always in Fashion. Here's your
host, Mark Webber. Another week in New York. So much is going
on. I love New York, the greatest city in the world. So
much is going on. It's exciting. Is fashion Week. The entire world
is conversing and it's descending on New York City and we're showing our best,
or are we? It is insane how crowded the city is. Used to
take me in traffic an hour around fifteen minutes to get into New York,
it's now at least two hours. Crossing town is impossible by car. Now
it's amazing. But you know you have to figure all those bicycles, all
those electric bikes, all the cars now, the ubers, the lifts,
everything going on with the fear of the subway. A lot more vehicles in
New York City. But you know what I'm concerned about with the crowding COVID.
We're not alone. Oh you're talking about aliens? Do you think there
are aliens living amongst us? So you think they're so peculiar that we don't
even know? Or do you don't believe in it? I've met a number
of people who I thought are aliens, and I bet you a lot of
people think that you're an alien because you're an acquired taste. Do I believe
that they're aliens? Absolutely? But do I think that they're living among us?
Maybe I'll tell you what I don't believe. Did you see this past
week? I think it was in Mexico in front of the Mexican Congress.
They showed these mummified bodies of what they say are aliens. Did you see
that? I did. I don't believe it for one second. I think
that is totally fake. Why the guy who introduced these mummified bodies to the
Mexican Congress, he's already been known for false claims before, and they said
that these could actually be It's disturbing that think about these could be children that
were wrapped up years ago, and the way they're wrapped up elongates their faces
and distorts the body. I just can't believe if you think about it like
this, right, all the alien movies that we've had, the aliens look
like these mummified bodies. So how did the filmmakers know that? How did
we know what aliens would look like? Did someone see these bodies or is
it someone crafted these bodies to make it look like what we already think aliens
look like. Well as the rest of the world say he's out of place
and it's nonsense, I don't know. I haven't been following. It hasn't
been on the news, which is surprising. Yeah, you would think if
they found real aliens, the world would go wacko. But bottom line,
I don't think they're really either. I don't think they're living amongst us.
But there is enough going on that one has to wonder whether we have I
love the world's out there with life on them. It seems to be the
leading towards that, and I think we're going to get there. Oh,
I don't want to talk about this anymore. I want to talk about bicycles.
But before I go to bicycles, I want to talk about the driveway.
The other day, you talk about spotting before we ran into someone we
knew and he started to talk to us about listening to the show. He
said he was in WRS in his car and all of a sudden by accident
and he's driving and he hears you and I now and we know this guy,
and it bothers me. How many people we know don't listen to the
show. But this guy said, I couldn't believe how great the show was.
You two are amazing. Got me excited. And just to amplify that
a little bit, he's an example of somebody who doesn't even know we have
a show. He didn't even know. Yeah, maybe I don't scream about
it enough. Maybe you know when you guys kicked me. Every time I
meet someone, I asked them, if they listen to our show, you
don't like it, but too bad. Maybe that's the way I have to
do it, one by one, million by million people. But it excited
me more than anything was the driveway, because this is a reoccurring theme of
our show. Let me explain what the driveway is so people can understand what
it means. We have gotten comments before that when people are driving in their
car and listening to us live on either Saturday or Sunday nights, which is
our understanding. A lot of people do, and they pull into their home
and they have to go in for dinner or go to sleep or whatever it
is, but they want to hear the rest of the show. So instead
they stay in the car in the driveway and they wait for the show to
end. They want to hear the rest of it. And that's what this
guy said to us, and I loved it, So I guess that's a
great thing in the midst of all my complaining. But that's the one I
want to talk about. I want to talk about bicycles. New York City
is suffering from unintended consequences. Someone had the bright idea. I'm going to
give them credit for the idea to install these bike racks, make them easily
accessible. You stick your credit card in, you pay for the bike as
you drive, when you deposit the bike, and park it wherever else there's
a bike rack in this city. Your totals get totaled up. And it
was a very very convenient way to try and move people in New York.
Those people who don't want to walk, I don't understand walking is healthy.
But let's say you want the speed of the bike or to stop driving,
stop taking cabs, stop using gasoline. Great idea, but unintended consequences.
I'll come back to that in a second. I want to talk about intended
consequences. You know, it is fashion Week and I was very excited whenever
we were doing DK and why fashion advertising because Donna Karen New York dk N
Why Donna Karen New York was always about New York and all of Donna Karen
New York in advertising would take place in the city. It was the DNA
of the brand. It was the life brother of the brand. This is
who we are where Donna Karen New York. This is a statement on New
York. And one particular spring season, the clothes had a lot of orange
in them. They were bright, they were fun, they were active,
the women's clothes, the men's clothes, and the people working on the advertising
decided to put people driving in New York on bicycles, three women together,
a guy and a girl. It was very, very clever, and they
painted bikes orange so they matched the clothes. And it instantly hit me how
Energetica was clever. It wasn't striking. And I said to the marketing team,
here's what I want to do. I want you to go out immediately
by fifty bikes. I want you to have them painted orange, and I
want you to go to the coolest areas in New York City and put the
bikes, attach them to fire hydrants, attach them to street signs, buy
locks and chains and do it. Somebody wants the bike, they have to
cut the lock and make sure you have the DKM y logo on. Anybody
gets angry at us, they want to give us a fine, so be
it will pay the fine. But like this, we're gonna put our name.
It'll tie back into our advertised the orange. We'll catch their attention.
And what a great great marketing vehicle or three sixty vehicle that we are doing.
The advertising it includes the bikes. The bikes are all over New York
City. People are talking about the cops may be upset about it. A
people are stealing them. They're taking him home and they'll be driving DKM.
I thought it was a brilliant idea except for the unintended consequence. And I
don't mean people getting mad. I don't mean it was an inconvenience. I
don't even mean that it was stolen. You know what goes on with these
bikes Jesse, aside from them being annoying. Now do you know what a
white bike in New York City means? Now? Oh, interesting, I
didn't know. You didn't know that we ever talked about this. There are
a lot of people who die riding bikes in New York City, and as
a testament to them and is part of their bereavement, there is a group
that paints bikes white and puts them on the sites where the people got hit
or died riding a bicycle in the city. That's a nice gesture, yes,
but they took it as a personal affront that we were putting bikes in
the city and doing technically what they were doing. So, as good corporate
citizens and students of American justice and what's right from wrong, we had to
remove all the bicycles. And it just shows you how in life, if
you don't think things through, if you don't do your homework, you don't
do your work, bad things can happen unintended consequences. But in all fairness,
could you have predicted that? Of course not. Who knew that.
You would think someone in the company would have known it, but nobody did.
But let's not where I'm going. I am going to unintended consequences because
motorized bikes are all over the city now. I said it earlier, the
little rocket ships. They are flying down the streets. They're in the bike
lanes that would decide for pedestrians who were driving bikes. And now they're moving
at ten miles an hour, twenty miles an hour, thirty they're fastest.
Hell, they have big engines in them. They're all electrified, so being
charged, they're using up the grid. It's not the idea that was intended
here. And all of a sudden, these bicycles are zooming past, and
I am sure why I don't hear about people got a beginning hurt just to
be you cross the street, you look one way, you saw if the
cars were coming and you cross. Used to be if you've got a green
light, you know you could cross the street. Not anymore, because there
is no regulations associated with these bikes. There's no speed rules, there's no
stopping and starting rules, there's no licensing route. Any mutant can get one.
There are hundreds or thousands of ten thousands of them, and they're flying
down the streets causing all kinds of problems and our genius politicians never anticipated what
would happen once we started creating all these bike lanes and creating bike accessibility.
Have you ever experienced any almost events with these bikes, Jesse. I've seen
the bikes go on the sidewalks, going between people. Yeah, what's that
about. I don't think that's a loud. I haven't checked the law on
that, but I can't imagine that's allowed. If the police are not arresting
people for theft, if the police are not arresting people for the terrible things
that go on, you think they're gonna bother with bicycles, and by the
way, how they're gonna catch them. They're flying, by the way.
I think the ones that I've seen have been delivery drivers, you know like
seamless caviare Uber eats, the ones that are trying to get to their delivery
fast. That's when I see them cutting corners, are cutting through people.
Well, it's become very dangerous. It's another thing in New York City that
makes me nauseous. It's another example how politics and politicians seem to create problems,
not solve them. And between our great New York mayor, has he
said anything about these rocket ships flying around our city. I have not heard
anything. Oh and before I get off our wonderful politicians, I can't stop
without talking about Schumer or the governor who's ever responsible for not supplying bags and
stores anymore? Now all of a s and you have to shop. You
have to bring your own bags, you have to buy bags. This is
crazy. You can go into a clothing store by ten items, you have
to carry them out under your arms unless you pay for bags. All they
did was make it uncomfortable for consumers, and they had expense, and nobody
says a word. Good job Schuma, Good job Kathy Hulkel, and good
job Eric Adams. You're really really impressive in New York City, and I
want to thank you for being a sanctuary city without a plan on what to
do with the people seeking sanctuary. Take a minute and we'll be back to
talk about some pleasant things in our great city, New York City. Always
in fashion, spent a lifetime of my career building the van usen Brand,
and I am so pleased that they're back with us now talking about suits.
Men, we're dressing up again, and it's become cool to wear a suit.
Suits can be one on multiple occasions in multiple ways. You could wear
a suit formally to go out at night or to an event, to wear
a suit to the office with or without a tie. If you look closely,
now fashion trends, suits are being worn with turtlenecks or mocknecks. The
choices are endless and every one of them looks right. You can really really
look the part. I believe that packaging yourself this is important. Does the
products you package and wearing a suit is one of those things that make men
look their best. Venues and invented a new idea. It's called the cool
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makes it perfect for all occasions. As we discussed just now, this new
style of looking shop while feeling cool and comfortable is amazing, and I'm so
excited that the venu using company is involved in this new technology and is embracing
the whole IDEA year of dressing up. Let's not forget van Usson made its
name with dress shirts. It's only proper that the suit business follows strongly in
its way. You can find van Usson cool Flex men's stretch suits at JC
Penny or online at JC penney dot com. Guys, they're great. You
should go look at them. Welcome back to Always in Fashion. Here's your
host, Mark Webber. To the world, to the fashion press, to
the buyers of retail stores here and around the world, to all the models,
to all the actresses and actors, to all the who's, who's anyone
who matters. Welcome to New York City. This is Fashion Week. It's
been so far amazing. I used to love fashion Week when I was important.
When I used to matter, I loved fashion Week. Now nobody cares.
When I used to be important, I was involved in runway shows,
and I'm at PVH. Philipson using we buy Calvin Klein. The tenure of
the company changed. We went from one of the world's great shirt companies that
made a lot of money but was not exciting. It wasn't energized. Now,
if I owned a company, my CEO at the time, or I
is CEO to our owned the company, we would have been billionaires. The
company made a ton of money. It was a great company, just didn't
grow. It didn't have the engine to grow the way other companies was supposed
to grow if you're on Wall Street. So as a public company, we
were good but not great. We bought Calvin Klein. The idea was to
create a transforming transaction that would take us from a company that grew at a
slow pace to rapid growth. And Calvin Klein was exactly what we needed and
we did that. The minute we bought it, Wall Street looked at us
differently. Our stocks started to appreciate dramatically. The excitement for us, though,
is we never had been in that kind of design of business. And
the first runway show that was going to be held during the due diligence process,
Calvin put on a runway show. It was extraordinary for women, extraordinary,
great press, all the people in the world. We got seats that
were good, not front row. We weren't calling attention to the fact we
were buying the company. We sat there and watched it. We loved every
part of it. And when Calvin took the bow at the end of the
show is extraordinary. We buy the company and this is what's going on.
We have the next runway show in Milan. Calvin Klein had a palazzo a
compound in Milan, and everyone in Milan will be at Calvin Klein because not
only will we have our runway show the evening of our show, the place
to be in Milan is Calvin Klein's compound because the jeans company throws a party.
Twelve hundred people came to that party. It was amazing. But that's
when the day before Calvin dropped a bomb show and told us that he's no
longer going to be the front man for our runway shows. He won't stand
up and walk the show and take the bow at the end. What do
you mean? He said, Guys, haven't you noticed the designers are on
their own now. We trained them well, they really don't want to hear
what I have to say. They'll politely listen, but they don't take my
direction any longer. I can't stand up and take credit for work that isn't
mine. We were devastated. I mean, we just bought the company.
We're figuring. You know, Calvin Klein, his front man, no changes.
This will be amazing, but he wouldn't do it. And he said
to us, here's what we'll do, the three of us. This was
my boss was CEO. I'm the president and Calvin would be off to the
side. When Francisco would walk down the runway and be the fact that Calvin
was standing there, it would show that we're still involved. He's involved,
and he's passing the torch to Francesco Costa. We were panicked by it,
but it worked, and it was my first experience of runway shows. As
time would go on, I would be involved in other designer companies at LVMH
and Company. I was front and center at Louis Vuitton's runway show in Paris.
I loved it. I have been invited to all the Mark Jacobs shows
and that company are beyond belief how clever they are. But I had my
own responsibilities in running the Donna Karan Collection runway show and of course the DKNY
shows nothing short of amazing. And when I said you used to be important,
believe me, at those shows, I was important myself. There were
people from LVMH to a front row at every one of those shows, sitting
amongst all the celebrities enjoying the show. Now, what is a runway show,
Jesse? What's a purpose of a runway show? Purpose of the runway
show is to promote the collection for the new season. In theory, yes,
that's as simple as you could say it. Who's invited to the Runway
show. Buyers from all over the world, the press from all over the
world, all the buyers and press from the United States, And of course
the idea is if you have Bloomingdale's or Sacks or Nieman's or the finest websites
in the world that come in it's a front row or first and second row
in your show. They see the product, they get excited, and during
the week after the Runway shows, the buyers go to your showrooms to start
purchasing. And no question, that was ultimately the number two most important thing
that Runway shows do, but the number one reason you stage a show the
fashion press around the world. Can you imagine all the activity when some of
the most famous actors or actresses are wearing your product at the Runway show boom.
The entire international press jumps all over and starts talking about who wore what
when, who is at what show? And it spirals from New York to
Milan, to Paris to Rome, the entire world. Seize the effects of
your Runway show. If you ask me, I never thought about how to
spend two million dollars in fifteen minutes. But what you can you can spend
two million dollars in fifteen or twenty minutes, is what we would spend as
a designer. Some of the big designers, you know, some of the
global like Door or Fendor, some of the Europeans will spell far in excess
of that building of their sets fortunes because luxury brands, designer brands are built
with image and prestige, and they take these messages around the world. And
that's what's taking place in New York right now. Big and small, famous
and not famous are all gathered here showing their wares to people around the world
to build their brand, to build their cachet. For the end result to
sell more products at regular price to the most prestigious retailers in the world and
sell them quickly and rapidly so you can make the most money having these brands.
And my experience firsthand with managing Calvin Client and managing Donna Karen was priceless
and I'd loved it. Let me ask you, do you think that a
runway show is necessary? Like do you think that if you didn't have one,
the company would still do well, you'd still sell the same amount of
product, how necessary as a runway show. Great question, and I'll answer
you this way. There are things in life and in business that are nice
to do. There are things in life and the business that you should do,
and then there are things in life and business that you must do.
Now the question you're asking, must you have a runway show? No?
Should you? If you're a good company and you'll have a designer brand.
Absolutely. The Europeans believe in them. The luxury companies believe that they have
to behave as luxury companies, and that's an important part of it. This
is the way they build luxury brands. In reality, it's nice to do.
For some. It elevates brands, It makes them look more important than
they are. Should you do it? If you're a designer brand like Done
a Care Okay? Absolutely? Must you do it? No, unless,
of course you're do your Orfendi or Gucci or what have you. But either
way, when those brands are that strong, they'd be fine without it.
But people in the know believe that's the way to behave. I miss them,
that's for sure. I miss them. Having said that, Welcome to
New York. It's a big week this week in New York City, back
in a moment. Always in fashion. I've been shopping for fun lately,
and while I'm out, I always look at men's and I look at women's
what's going on? And I was particularly interested in Decamy because of their sponsorship
of the show. I went downstairs at Macy's thirty fourth Street to look around
and I saw dekmy active where And I promise you, ladies, it is
sensational, from the sports braus to the crop tops, to the leggings and
the sweats. It really is a great look. And dk Andy had begun
as an all American brand dressing casual clothes engines, and the stuff looks incredible
and right now the colors and the styles is so exciting that I feel great
about the company. I always do. I wear the men's wear all the
time. I've had situations where I've gone to big events and been interviewed in
TV or the radio and someone comes up to me and the microphone and like
they always do, who you're wearing? And here I am, this big
shot with big company and they say, well, I'm wearing a DKY and
they laugh and say, no, you're not. Actually have one on the
internet where you could see me. They asked me what suit I'm wearing,
and I say DC and Y and open it up and there's the dk andy
label. Great fashion, it fits well, it looks right. It's designed
to make you comfortable in the city, goes from day in to night.
You can wear it in the morning, wear in the afternoon, and you
look cool at night as well. It's great for the office as great Felisia.
But I'm talking about the DKNY active where the first time I really became
aware of it, Jesse and I were up at Serious Radio. He was
doing a job for Serious he does Dan Abrams show, he fills in on
the Potus Network and we're in the lobby and this hip hop group came up.
Well, this really great looking Latino singer girl young, beautiful, and
she's wearing a dk and Y sports bar and I said to myself, this
is amazing. Actually went to Macy's to see it, and I'm excited about
the brand. And I'll tell you what, ladies, dk Y always has
great fashion for work, always wonderful dresses and things that you'd wear. Their
accessories are great. The shoes are always very cool. But activewear in particular
right now looks sensational and being that everyone's athleisure in activewear, it's a great
time dk Andy go take a look. As one of the world's most celebrated
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shop. I love going around and seeing what's happening and what catches my attention,
what would make me feel good to wear now. I don't wear the
women's wear obviously, but I can appreciate it and they look amazing. If
you want to look right, you want to have clothes that fits you well.
You want to look like you're wearing something that's very expensive, that's exclusive
for you and yours. You can find it at very affordable prices at Macy's.
Socarlogafel dot com Paris. The women's ready to wear fashion is extraordinary,
as well as the handbags and the shoes. If one wear men's clothes,
and unlike my appreciation of women's clothes, I'm a modern guy. I want
to look current, I want to look the way I want to feel.
I go out at night, I'm in black and Carlagafeld is my buddy.
Clothes are great, The fit great, and they have little tweaks and touches,
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been, he always had been one of the world's great designers, and this
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Lagafeld Paris at Macy's or Carlgafel dot com. Welcome back to Always in Fashion.
Here's your host, Mark Webber. I love New York. I love
Florida of California in the winter. But it's September. I'm not there yet.
But New York is arguably one of the greatest cities in the world,
one of the most exciting cities in the world. And past couple of weeks
I've been talking about New York because it deserves to be. This week is
all about fashion. It's Fashion Week in New York last week, two weeks
whether the US opens. It's a great time to be in New York.
But it got me thinking, I have always done for my children. I
used to be important. I'm not now. I told you about it all
the time. It's hard getting used to it. I don't rate anymore.
Aside from the fact that I'm on the radio and my list just seemed to
really love this show. I don't have enough of them. I want to
be millions. We're not millions. But that's another story. There's an element
of the show that I'm always giving advice. It's career advice. It says
it in the beginning, I want to talk to you about reading. As
luck would have it. When I was thirteen years old, I got pneumonia.
Now why would I say as luck would have it? Well during pneumonia,
other than not feeling all that well, other than being home for three
months, I had to find something to occupy my time, even though it's
young. I fell in love with what was then called million Dollar Movie,
and every day million Dollar Movie would have old movies James Cagney, Humphrey Bogott,
and I became a quasi expert as a kid in those movies. I
saw them all multiple times, and I loved watching those movies to this day,
when the right ones on TV, I look forward to it and I
remember it. But what else happened while I was sick? I became an
avid reader. I was too young for most novels, but I was mature
enough to be able to read them. And I started reading everything, and
I discovered a whole lot of writers, Stephen Coonts, who I loved,
Vince Flynn later on in life. I found these writers and these stories would
transpose me. The great thing about reading it took you to different places.
It told you stories you would never hear. It broadened your expertise on the
world with the definitions and explanations of people in places. I am telling you
that reading changed my life. It made it more interesting. It gave me
something to do, It made me more worldly, and it made me more
interesting. And I want to fast forward many years later. I want to
take you to business. In my business, Womenswear Daily was the bible.
If you were a Who's Who, or you wanted to be a whose who
in business, you had a look at Womenswear Daily. And I used to
study the people I work with and work for and worked alongside to see whether
or not they would read that newspaper every day. And I would see many
of them would have them newspapers stacked up on their inbox. I knew my
boss would peruse the headlines and the ones that interested in me, he digging.
I also knew that if I read it cover to cover, I would
have a leg up on everyone else, and I did. There was another
newspaper, DNR Daily News Record. A Daily News Record was the weak brother
the Women's Wear Daily. It was the men's Trade. And once again I
walked around the company and watched the DNR pile up, and I read it
cover to cover. And I didn't stop there. I read every Fortune magazine,
every Forbes magazine, every single Business inc. New Yorker, everything that
I could read to make me more interesting and have more knowledge than everyone else.
And I can tell you my boss was ten times smarter than me,
even if he wasn't because he was my boss, he was exposed to more
things going on in the company, so he was always a step ahead of
me. My reading clothes the gap. So my advice to any of you
out there, the more you read, the more you have a chance to
enhance your life and to be better at what you do. Now, I've
always exposed my children to everything, and as time goes on, as I
become less important, they're becoming more and more important. And on the subject
of reading, this week, Jesse made something happen for me, one of
the most exciting things that's happened for me in a long time. One of
the greatest writers of all time, Nelson DeMille. I started reading his books
probably thirty years ago when he started writing them. I've read I think every
single one he's written since he was famous as Nelson de Ville. Jesse is
going to Crime Con in Orlando. He's going to be one of the guest
hosts. He's going to be on a panel, he's going to be running
a lot of things there and He's going to be interviewing Nelson DeMille, and
this week Jesse arranged I get to know you conference call between the managing people
of the event, between the publisher Nelson Demil and his son Alex Demil,
and Jesse's going to be interviewing him. I was on the Zoom call,
so my children are paying benefits. They are now arranging those things because they're
important, even though I'm not Jesse. I said it. Then I say,
now, I can't tell you how excited I am. So I've been
part of that Zoom call and took the Nelson Demill directly. That made me
so happy. You've done so many things in your career, given us so
many perks, things to go to just amazing. So this is something that
I was able to do for you. It made me very happy. And
watching your face, you had a smile on the entire hour, and he
was very gracious. Him and his son. I think they were surprised to
the depth of knowledge I had in his books, don't you think. Yeah?
I think they were surprised at both of us, because there's one thing
to be like, oh I'm a huge fan, but where we're describing details
of certain interactions in the book and certain characters and exchanges. They were like,
Oh, these guys are the real deal. They've been following they know
exactly what we're talking about. It's called crime. Come yeah, what is
it actually? So this is a massive event. They're expecting over five thousand
people. People are interested in true crime. There's going to be different panelists,
different podcasts, different presentations, different shows. They present their materials to
the audience, they hold special talks, they have special guests, and it's
a three day affair. It's a three day convention and what gets you there?
So I was invited through Law on Crime. I host a podcast called
the Sidebar Podcast, and we are presenting we are actually doing a live recording
of our Sidebar podcast in front of an audience of about seven hundred people.
I am also going to be one of the presenters at the Clue Awards.
It's like the Oscars for true crime. And then, like you said,
I'm going to be interviewing Nelson and Alex Demil for a special presentation. And
I'm also promoting Prime Crime, which is my show that I host an executive
produce through Law and Crime. It's a true crime documentary show. It's on
YouTube, Facebook, NBC's Peacock to Be so it's I'm gonna be promoting that
as well. So anyway, I love meeting those two guys. Keep getting
more and more important. I like being exposed to stuff. It's great,
makes us more interesting. But it all comes down to, as I said
before, I want to wrap this up again talking about reading. You can
improve your career. You can be smarter than the next guy or gal next
to you. You could be smarter than your boss if you get engaged in
reading, and you'll improve your life. It's so interesting. There's so many
wonderful things that come from getting smarter, getting exposed, being more worldly,
being more interesting. And if that doesn't do it for you guys out there
or you girls. When I was nineteen years old first started driving, I
used to keep a book in my car was called The Profit by Hill Gabron,
very well known book at the time about this author who had principles on
life. Put that book on your dashboard or on your console. You're not
going home alone at night, guys, And now and then I'm older,
put always in fashion in the car. And boy, the women or the
men, they can't control themselves. Ten million people in New York. Nobody
should have to go home alone. Listen, this is arguably one of the
greatest cities in the world. We could debate that with anyone. Bring them
on. I'm ready. This is a great city until it's not. It
needs to be protected from ourselves. I'm told thirty eight percent of the people
in New York still believe there shouldn't be a wall. What are you talking
about. Listen, Liberals, you could be smart. Republicans you can have
a heart. Are politicians they need to be held accountable. We have to
stop voting for idiots, people who don't have our best interests at heart.
A great city, we need to protect it. I hope you enjoyed another
week in New York, and I hope you've enjoyed our show to night.
Good night,