WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:04.519 This show is produced and hosted by Mark Webber. The show is sponsored by 2 00:00:04.559 --> 00:00:07.839 G three of Peril. The views expressed in the following program are those of 3 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:13.240 the sponsor and not necessarily the opinion of sevent ten wo r or iHeartMedia. 4 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:19.239 Who is Mark Webber. He's a self made business executive here to help you 5 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:24.480 find your success from the New York City projects to the Avenue Montaigne in Paris. 6 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:29.679 His global success story in the luxury world of fashion is inspirational. He's 7 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:36.280 gone from clerk to CEO twice. Mark is classic proof that the American dream 8 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:40.920 is alive. And well, here's your host of Always in Fashion, Mark 9 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:46.840 Webber. Weber. The world's in a bad place. The obvious. We're 10 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:52.200 living in a divided country politically, economically, ideologically, we're in each other's 11 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:57.759 face. We're protesting, arguing, disrespecting bee who you are, I don't 12 00:00:57.799 --> 00:01:00.439 care, just don't force me to agree. And the others problems are their 13 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:06.079 crime, poverty, immigration, that's us. But I said the world's in 14 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:11.239 a bad place, war, disease, and now fire and smoke. Who 15 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:15.159 would ever envisioned being forced indoors again this time because of fires in Canada? 16 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:21.200 You can't make the stuff up. A hundred million Americans are in danger because 17 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:26.879 of wildfires in Canada. Really, after two years of COVID stay indoors masking 18 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:33.599 outside, here we are again. Climate change activists have taken ownership for this 19 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:38.640 fiasco. I have to ask billions of acres of trees and forests around the 20 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:42.239 world, come on, it can't be manicured. There's plenty of rain this 21 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:47.920 year. There are natural disasters. There always have been, there always will 22 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:55.319 be. Footnote where a planet floating in space were like Mars, where a 23 00:01:55.400 --> 00:02:01.760 planet stuff happens. But someone who respect whispered something else to me to consider. 24 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:08.879 It's starting to feel like Biblical times. The plague, fire, smoke, 25 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:15.919 floods, the threat of nuclear war, human suffering. They whispered to 26 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:21.800 me. Maybe we should consider that God is angry at us when you consider 27 00:02:22.599 --> 00:02:29.400 that God only gave us ten commandments, just ten rules to follow in living 28 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:34.919 our lives, just ten. I'm willing to bet almost none of us, 29 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:39.280 with the exception maybe of the faithful, the bias, the most religious might 30 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:45.639 know what the ten actually are, let alone honor those commandments. I'm pretty 31 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:51.360 sure no one does. Maybe we're being told our behavior is not acceptable. 32 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:58.400 Man plans and God lasts something to consider. We're not doing the right thing. 33 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:04.039 Now, you conspiracy theorists, here another one. Maybe we should consider 34 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:08.520 all these UFO sidings, our planets, our neighbors. Word. We're destroying 35 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:13.680 the earth. Maybe they have something to say about it. We're in a 36 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:20.919 bad place. Current catastrophes aside, current events aside. The idea of bad 37 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:25.719 to good got me thinking. I've always subscribed to the principle that good isn't 38 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:30.439 good enough, that good is the enemy of great, and that good is 39 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:36.039 lazy. I've learned in the time I've spent competing, it's clear that only 40 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:42.000 great wins. Now sports teaches this lesson every day and every night. The 41 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:46.479 fact that goes further than great. Pick a sport. Baseball, the Yankees, 42 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:52.360 Gian Carlos Stanton good could be great, he's always injured, Anthony Rizzo 43 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:58.240 excellent. Aaron Judge is the elite, a very special place, rarefied air 44 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:03.520 now Also in the Yankee the pitches Nasty Nest are good. Garrett Cole elite. 45 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:10.240 How about golf Tiger Woods elite, Rory McElroy great, Justin Thomas good. 46 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:14.000 It could be divided even further, Bruce, keepka good every day, 47 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:18.920 but elite for the majors. I can talk acting directors, designing, business 48 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:26.480 leaders. We judge, we have systems. Everything is up for categorization. 49 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:32.120 Hey, take politicians are elected officials. I'll rate them all bad. We're 50 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:35.759 all on the scale. What do we fit. We can be elite one 51 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:41.360 day, bad the next. It's not just skills, its attitude. When 52 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:46.480 I'm insightful, I can amaze myself. When I am angry, never fails. 53 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:49.120 How bad and stupid I could be. When I'm playful, I know 54 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:55.000 I'm getting in trouble. I'm on record once again. Humans don't like them. 55 00:04:55.279 --> 00:05:00.480 The scale I'm using tonight is for humans bad, average, good, 56 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:05.120 great or elite. I've seen humans run the gamut more often bad than average, 57 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:10.879 even less good, let along greater elite. I'm never surprised with bad, 58 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:15.519 but I'm always shocked when I find excellent or elite judging me. I'm 59 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:18.800 the judge and jury. I make up my mind. That's it. Before 60 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:23.720 you start frowning on me, I think you're not that different. I think 61 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:27.160 not. You probably do the same thing. Now. My scale for rating 62 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:30.639 it has always been one to ten. I've seen many surveys asking to rate 63 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:34.920 this way. I've seen rating systems of one to five, same principle, 64 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:41.480 less choices. Maybe that's easier, less delineations. I read an article I 65 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:46.199 tried to lay out a judging process. I don't remember where I saw it. 66 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:49.639 Maybe it was the movie Air. That movie was a ten or five, 67 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:54.759 depending on how you want to use the system, or elitely great. 68 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:59.279 Got me thinking about all the observing I've been doing, all the critiquing. 69 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:04.360 Require We judge everything people, places, things, sounds, smells, tastes, 70 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:10.560 touches. That covers the five senses. We make judgments based on ethnicity. 71 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:15.680 Unfortunately, we judge people by currentry of origin. Unfortunately, we judge 72 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:20.959 by gender, unfortunately, by size and weight. Unfortunately. I just point 73 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:26.079 us out to make a point. We judge everything right or wrong. We 74 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:31.000 judge. We make judgments the second we meet someone by their face or facial 75 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:35.079 expression. Are they respectful? What is the opening line that comes out of 76 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:39.560 their mouth? How do they fall up to the response I give anything? 77 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:46.240 Then we consider in judging, will you deliver as promise? Do you look 78 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:49.399 or sound like you'll do what you'll say you'll do? Then we get superficial. 79 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:54.120 What color or the clothes you're wearing? Are your clothes clean? Press 80 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:58.360 neat? For that matter? Do you look clean? Do your clothes fit? 81 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:00.839 Ladies? Not too tight? Too from peek? Guys? Are your 82 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:05.040 pants dragging? Are your sleeves too long? We look at your shoes. 83 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:10.759 They are the window to your soul. Oh, I'm judging. It's not 84 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:14.879 fair. But like trick cereal faire as for kids, is it right? 85 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:17.279 Hell? No, who hasn't learned you can't judge a book by its cover. 86 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:21.160 Yet we all do in the courtroom, in the movies, in real 87 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:26.279 life we're all judge judy. We're judging. Now. Having said this, 88 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:30.680 I've been around, I've been seeing, listening, interacting, just judging, 89 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:33.279 and that's what I want to talk about tonight, and the system of bad, 90 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:40.120 average, good, great or elite. Now i'll start, Actually, 91 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:44.399 i'll start with fashion. This is the part where I would normally introduce my 92 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:47.040 son, lawyer and co host Jesse Weber, but I can't believe it. 93 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:50.439 He got married last week. He's on his honeymoon. He's not here, 94 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:54.879 and I'll try not to judge him too harshly. If you're try not to 95 00:07:54.959 --> 00:08:00.680 judge me for even considering he has a responsibility. It was a amazing event 96 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:03.680 at the plaza. Hotel. Put a little judgment on the plaza is in 97 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:07.879 order. I want to make a point and I want to make a lesson 98 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:11.120 learn. I get to the plaza, it's time to check in. I 99 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:15.839 go to the front desk. The nicest guy, bright eyes, articulate, 100 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:18.959 friendly, looks me up, sees I'm part of the bridal party, congratulates 101 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:24.680 me, then offers he has a beautiful suite for me as requested, gives 102 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:26.800 me two keys, points out the elevator, and tells me my rate is 103 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:33.399 eighteen hundred dollars plus tacks per night. Enjoy my stay. After that, 104 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:37.399 it's pretty hard to enjoy. I'm taking a room, or I'm buying the 105 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:41.080 hotel. I actually said him, you'll like working for me. Now I 106 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:45.720 bought the hotel. He gets rated excellent. I get to the room. 107 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:50.519 Room is good. Should have been better, should have been larger. Bathrooms 108 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:56.799 are great. Lighting. Average view of a brick wall bad. I didn't 109 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:00.440 pay eighteen hundred plus tacks to look at a brick wall, so I called 110 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:03.960 down. I asked to speak to my guy. Sorry, mister, Webber. 111 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:07.840 That's the room you're assigned. Well, I don't want to be assigned 112 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:09.879 this room. Let me look what I have for you. Okay, have 113 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:13.960 a room facing the fountain. Twenty two hundred dollars plus tax. He quickly 114 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:18.600 went in my eyes from excellent to bed. Let's just say I went to 115 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:22.960 bad attitude in record time. I was obnoxious, But that's okay. The 116 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:26.679 Plaza was bad. I'm blad now. All in all, I give the 117 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:30.879 hotel a rating of good, as they said it earlier. Good isn't good 118 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:33.080 enough. It should be excellent, should be elite. It's a luxury hotel. 119 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:39.559 Is that what a luxury company wants as a rating? Would you recommend 120 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:45.120 the Plaza to your friends in college? Yes, with a caveat. By 121 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:48.200 the way, I should point this out. My sons and I met for 122 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:52.240 breakfast at ten am the morning after the wedding. We were reminiscing, talking 123 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:56.440 about the good time we all had. We were literally chased out of the 124 00:09:56.559 --> 00:10:01.320 restaurant at ten fifty five am so they could set up for eleven o'clock seating. 125 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:05.720 Once again bad. You ask me, Plasi, you have three guys 126 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:09.240 who threw a wedding in your hotel. The night before, we're sitting at 127 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:11.600 a table isolated from everyone else. I understand you want to set up for 128 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:16.720 lunch. Maybe you could have may do with one table less. I loved 129 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:20.120 the hotel. The rating just then was bad, but my rating of average 130 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:26.360 or good, I'm sure that's not what they're looking for. I'm sure that 131 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:31.360 a luxury hotel, one of the few in the city, needs to think 132 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:35.080 about everything, all the components and what they're doing to the people that are 133 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:41.200 there. I spent the luxury price. I don't think I quite got the 134 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:46.360 luxury service. But tonight it's about judging bad, average, good, great 135 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:52.360 or excellent and elite. We'll talk some more when we get back. Always 136 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:56.879 in Fashion. As one of the world's most celebrated fashion designers, Carlagefeld was 137 00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:01.600 renowned for his aspirational and cut edge approach to style. His unique vision of 138 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:07.440 Parisian ship comes to America through Carlagofeld Paris. He has women's collections, men's 139 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:11.919 collections, ready to wear, accessory, shoes and bags. The fashion house 140 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:16.279 Carlagofield also offers a range of watches I wearing premium fragrances. You can explore 141 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:22.159 the Carlogofel collection at Karlogofel Paris dot com. But it's more than that. 142 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:24.600 I, for one, love to shop. I love going around and seeing 143 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:28.720 what's happening and what catches my attention, what would make me feel good to 144 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:33.399 wear Now. I don't wear the women's wear obviously, but I can appreciate 145 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:35.440 it, and they look amazing. If you want to look right, you 146 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:39.720 want to have clothes that fit you well. You want to look like you're 147 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:45.600 wearing something that's very expensive, that's exclusive for you and yours. You can 148 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:50.279 find it at very affordable prices at Macy's Socarlogofel dot com Paris. The women's 149 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:54.919 ready to wear fashion is extraordinary, as well as the handbags and the shoes. 150 00:11:54.480 --> 00:12:01.000 If one wear men's clothes, unlike my appreciation of women's clothes, I'm 151 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:03.960 a modern guy. I want to look current. I want to look the 152 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:05.759 way I want to feel. I go out at night, I'm in black 153 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:09.799 and carlagafeld Is, my buddy. Clothes are great. They fit great, 154 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:13.799 and they have little tweaks and touches, whether it's a stripe on the sleeve 155 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:16.519 or button at the neck or on the shoulder, there's a lot of details 156 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:20.879 that go into Carlagafeld because he's always been, he always had been one of 157 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:26.039 the world's great designers, and this legacy and goes on and on. I 158 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:28.879 can't speak enough about it except to say to you, you want to feel 159 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:31.000 good about yourself, You want to know that you're dressing properly. You want 160 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:37.279 clothes that fits you well. Carl Lagafeld, Paris at Macy's or Carlgafel dot 161 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:43.000 com. My favorite brand has always been ISOD. My company at one time 162 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:46.240 bought that brand. The CEO of the company handed it to me and said, 163 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:50.679 you better make it work. And I put everything in my career to 164 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:54.799 make Eyesod work, and I fell in love with that brand, and to 165 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:58.879 this day it is one of the most exciting endeavors I've ever got involved with. 166 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:05.879 Isod is an incredibly strong golf brand. If you play golf, if 167 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:11.679 you play tennis for that matter. They make a great polo shirts. I 168 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:18.080 mean great. They fit perfect. The material is unique because it's a PK 169 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:22.679 fabric that waffleweave, you see, and it's made of a blend of cotton 170 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:30.399 and microfiber that allows you to stretch and very often they are treated with solo 171 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:35.639 protection as well, so they stretch, they're comfortable, and they breathe well. 172 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:39.200 And one thing about ISAD they always fit. They'll never tug on you. 173 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:41.399 You put it in your waist, they'll fit you great. The colors 174 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:46.480 patterns are sensational. Now I will also tell you ISOD makes great shorts and 175 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:50.639 great golf pants. You're a golfer and you want to look good. You 176 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:52.480 don't want to have to think about how do I look. You want to 177 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:56.519 think about how you play, not how you feel. ISOD is the brand 178 00:13:56.559 --> 00:14:00.720 for you. I know I was there when it was created. The strategy 179 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:03.600 behind that brand is brilliant. It's one of my favorite brands. While I 180 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:07.639 talk about I should tell you about the men's sportswear. ISOD wasn't enough being 181 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:11.799 a golf brand. It wasn't enough being just great polo shirts with logos, 182 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:18.879 without logos. Incredible brands in story and history. ISAD makes salt weather programs. 183 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:28.240 They have great printed woven shirts, short sleeves that look excellent with colors, 184 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:31.120 excellent with shorts, excellent with cotton pants, of which they also make. 185 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:37.360 This whole salt order relaxed line from ISOD whether it be felice, cotton 186 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:43.960 sweaters, nitpolos, woven shirts and pants of a range of colors and fabrics 187 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:48.200 that are perfect for a guy wants to go casually in the spring and summer 188 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:56.879 of this year. And here is the thing isod is affordable. Everyone listening 189 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:01.279 to me talk about this brand can afford buy it and know that there are 190 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:05.080 a lot of other brands that also have a look like Iesode. Although I 191 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:09.519 don't believe it's fun as Eyesod is. The brand has a lot of energy 192 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:13.759 in it, but at the price points no one can compete. You can 193 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:20.039 find eyes that at your leading retailers and online at eod dot com. Talk 194 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:24.679 to you later, guys. I wish you are very happy spring in summer, 195 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:28.639 and I help you by telling you if you wear Eyesode, you're gonna 196 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:33.639 look great. Welcome back to Always in Fashion. Here's your host, Mark 197 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:39.360 Webber. We judge everything. That's what I'm thinking about this week. I 198 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:43.000 read an article and I noticed the different system than one I used to for 199 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:45.919 judging. I'm a one to ten guy once in a while, one to 200 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:48.840 five it's less to choose from. But they did a system based on actual 201 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:54.879 words, going from bad to average to good to excellent or great to elite. 202 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.639 I start to think about what was going on in the world, and 203 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:02.799 I want to rate different things tonight. That's what the show is about. 204 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:07.679 I'm going to judge. I'm going to be judge and jury judge mark right 205 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:11.279 now, I want to rate the fashion system. There's bad, which is 206 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:18.080 crap quality or ugly. There's average, which is disposable fashion it's cheap but 207 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:22.159 styled well. Then there's good. The basic brands, you know the products, 208 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:26.879 you recognize them, you trust them, designer which is excellent for quality 209 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:32.799 and design, and the designer which is excellent for quality, but the design 210 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:37.399 could be ridiculous. To sublime. Luxury is the elite, the best that 211 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:44.679 money can buy, perfectly crafted, timeless design, something special. And that's 212 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:48.159 the breakdown tonight in my judging format, but in particular, I want to 213 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:53.440 discuss the elite luxury. There's no trading up or down when it comes to 214 00:16:53.559 --> 00:17:00.000 luxury. It's not a menu. You're not choosing from column a o'columb Luxury 215 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:03.960 is luxury. There's no such thing as lux There's a name. I've been 216 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:07.920 hearing a lot, Lady Lux. I've already used luxes a want to be 217 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:14.240 expression. It's for people that are non luxury that want their non luxury brands. 218 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:17.559 They want to use it to trade up and make believe there's something. 219 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:22.640 Don't be fooled. Abraham Lincoln said, just because you say a dog's tail 220 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:26.240 is another leg doesn't make it a leg. You are what you are. 221 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:33.960 There's first class and there's schmuck class, then some mutants. My favorite talk 222 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:38.160 affordable luxury. No less than my former boss, CEO and founder of LVMH, 223 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:42.400 Louis Vatomo, Ed Hennessey Bernard or No had something to say about this 224 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:48.440 statement, and I quote affordable luxury. These are two words that don't go 225 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:52.440 together. There's no such thing as affordable luxury. In fashion and retail, 226 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:57.440 you are who you are. Yes on the rating scale, there's below Walmart, 227 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:00.640 you find a bad zero. And there's the elites, the tends that 228 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:03.880 are the luxury brands, and you know them, you know who they are. 229 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:10.720 Ptec Philippe, Rolex Ferrari, Bentley, Rolls, Royce Vitone, Dior, 230 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:15.480 Chanel product for luggage, Hermes, the saddlemaker for leather and accessories, 231 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:22.000 Bulgarie Jewelry, Four Seasons Hotels, retail. It's burged off Goodman and even 232 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:26.920 Marcus. These are companies. These are brands that have a history, very 233 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:32.359 often in Europe, where the history is far longer than dating back to the 234 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:37.799 beginning of our country. These brands were established with no compromise. Luxury are 235 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:45.240 products are uniquely crafted and carefully curated. They're expensive, now interesting, there 236 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:48.279 can be a new one. Tom Ford has no history, but he's impeccably 237 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:53.720 positioned and he started an elite never ever compromised on quality or his message. 238 00:18:55.200 --> 00:19:00.920 But the luxury company Mantra always is what is the best way and how can 239 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:07.880 we make the best product? Then they'll talk about course. Now me, 240 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:11.720 I'm a man of the people. I really like average. I've lived a 241 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:17.240 portion of my career in that corporate life. I'm proud to represent the good 242 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:22.599 and designer as well. Some companies. I've noticed how a luxury component Michael 243 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:27.160 Kor's collection is a small component to Halo to Michael Kors, they call it 244 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:32.599 the good or their better line, which is an eight or ten good versus 245 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:37.880 elite, all within one brand. Another great example who spans this luxury rating 246 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:44.200 scale is Ralph Lauren. He has factory stores that I call average, good 247 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:48.799 product, fair price, Polo is Good, Ralph Lauren Women's Collection, Elite, 248 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:56.720 Ralph Lauren Purple Label Men's Elite. I become an appreciator of luxury. 249 00:19:56.640 --> 00:20:00.359 There's no question I can be a man of the people. I grew up 250 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:04.559 as a man of the people. I appreciate the good parts of life and 251 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:08.519 the good things that are there. But I've worked hard, I've traveled the 252 00:20:08.559 --> 00:20:14.960 world. I've developed a taste for the elite. I'm a chameleon. Sometimes 253 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:18.240 I'm a man of the people, and I buy things in all kinds of 254 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:22.599 stores, from Target to Uniglow to Macy's, all the way up to burgdof 255 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:27.839 Goodman. I love the elite. I love luxury products, and it's the 256 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:33.160 top of the food chain that I want to talk about right now. Service 257 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:36.960 an elite car, It'll blow your mind. The garage is as clean as 258 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:41.319 the finest hotel, lobby, the best French restaurant. You stand there, 259 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:45.960 you talk to them. They talk to you like you are to be respected. 260 00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:49.480 They compliment you on the choice of car you selected. They make it 261 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:53.559 clear how important it is for them to service your needs. You ever buy 262 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:59.039 a luxury watch, you to see that experience when it comes to service. 263 00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:03.359 First, to sign in, you're greeted what can I do for you? 264 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:07.400 Thank you for being here today. Then they turned you on too a professional 265 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:11.640 who'll handle your service request. This attendant is in uniform, usually a black 266 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:17.920 suit for men and women, and they'll only receive your item and felt gloves, 267 00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:22.680 treating is as they would find jewelry, which it is. They treat 268 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:26.119 it as if it's special. Then there's an authentication process. They take it 269 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:30.759 in the back, give it to an engineer, a technician who will make 270 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:34.279 sure that if it's a Rolex, it's a Rolex. Then they receive the 271 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:38.519 watch. They take it to the back of the house. Another technician examines 272 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:44.839 it, then determines the service level required. A whole process is priceless. 273 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:47.759 It's very different than you go in somewhere else, Hey can you fix my 274 00:21:47.839 --> 00:21:55.640 watch? Via Hambeck if etone herm is there's a uniform associate. They addressed 275 00:21:55.759 --> 00:22:00.960 perfectly. These people involved, they're often multi lingual, they come from various 276 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:08.519 different countries, impeccably trained, behavioral perfect and product they're technically savvy. They 277 00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:14.200 can talk to you about luxury and the history of luxury and everything they do 278 00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:19.119 signals the DNA of the brand, like leather and saddles for hermas vetoned trunks 279 00:22:19.119 --> 00:22:25.279 signaling another era. I love it, I respect it, I admire it, 280 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:29.960 and I want it. Jesse had a wedding at the Plaza. I 281 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:33.119 discussed it earlier, but I'm on fashion now and I want to talk to 282 00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:42.000 you about Ralph Lauren Purple label. I only recently became a fan, an 283 00:22:42.039 --> 00:22:48.960 admirer, and a purchaser a Ralph Lauren Purple label. Every time I went 284 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:52.200 into the store, I would say, who are these idiots spending this money 285 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:57.200 for a suit or a sweater? And I became one of those idiots. 286 00:22:59.079 --> 00:23:03.200 Now there are a couple of reasons. First of all, in the entirety 287 00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:07.359 of my career, when I was at PVH, with brands such as Calancline 288 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:11.400 or Eyes a Tommy Hill figure, I could only wear my brands. No 289 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:15.400 matter where I went, I would be seen wearing these products, and I 290 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:19.720 had to be careful. It wouldn't serve me well to be wearing someone else's 291 00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:25.720 logo At the level of the corporation that I existed in, whether it was 292 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:29.559 president, board member, CEO. You have to be loyal to your own 293 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:33.200 brands also gave me an incentive when I work with the brands to make sure 294 00:23:33.240 --> 00:23:36.440 the products were special. And there were things that I would wear with a 295 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:41.559 lifestyle and mine crossed, so I could never wear Ralph from a distance. 296 00:23:41.559 --> 00:23:45.440 I was always an admirer and I always wanted to wear certain products, but 297 00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:51.400 I just couldn't. But as I moved into this career, I became a 298 00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:55.400 free agent. I'm able to wear whatever I want. And yes I have 299 00:23:55.480 --> 00:23:57.119 sponsores, and yes I wear their products, and yes I love them, 300 00:23:57.640 --> 00:24:03.119 but their sponsors and I treat them with respect. And everything I talk about 301 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:07.799 in the commercials is with respect. That it's real because I wear my sponsor's 302 00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:14.480 product. But I came enamored with Ralph Lauren Purple label. Now I've said 303 00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:17.240 this before. If you listen to the show, you've heard me talk about 304 00:24:17.240 --> 00:24:22.200 it. There's something unique about the purchasing experience a purple label. In the 305 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:27.160 mansion on seventy second Street in Manhattan, it's got its own floor Purple label. 306 00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:30.720 It migrates to one or two floors, sometimes even three, But when 307 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:37.960 you're on the main floor buying tailored clothing, it's an otherworldly experience. The 308 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:45.279 tailors, the sellers, the expertise that's exhibited, the way the merchandise is 309 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:52.240 displayed. If you ask me, Ralph Lauren has the best merchandise product in 310 00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:56.599 the world. And in this case i'm talking which you see in the windows, 311 00:24:56.839 --> 00:25:00.440 what you see in their advertising, the way they put it all together 312 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:03.519 is so appetizing. Now Here I am. I needed a tuxedo from my 313 00:25:03.559 --> 00:25:07.759 son's wedding. You'll see white tie in tails. You'll see double breasted, 314 00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:11.200 you'll see single breasts. You'll see choyl collar, you'll see black, you'll 315 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:17.359 see navy, You'll see white dinner jackets. All of them have boutineers, 316 00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:22.759 all of them have pocket squares, all of them have beautiful matching ties and 317 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:26.720 vests wherever appropriate. It's so well laid out, it's so appetizing. Even 318 00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:30.720 if I didn't want to buy, I'm forced to buy now. As the 319 00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:37.440 good father I am, and the good father of the groom that I am, 320 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:41.559 My sons and I went to Ralph Lauren to buy our tuxedos, and 321 00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:47.680 I sponsored them. My son had an amazing double breasts of tuxedo, but 322 00:25:47.759 --> 00:25:52.519 he wanted a single breasted with a vest and he bought it, and it 323 00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:57.920 just looks different than any of the tuxedo you'll see from anyone else. My 324 00:25:57.960 --> 00:26:04.559 son's white dinner jacket was impeccable. I said in my speech during the wedding 325 00:26:04.599 --> 00:26:08.079 that I always wanted to wear a white dinner jacket, but because Jesse did, 326 00:26:08.279 --> 00:26:12.640 I couldn't. He wanted to be above and beyond and far from anyone 327 00:26:12.680 --> 00:26:15.000 else at the thing, and we goofed about it, but he was right. 328 00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:19.240 He looked amazing. White jenna jacket fit him perfectly. I did call 329 00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:23.039 out that ever since Thunderball, I wanted a white dinner jacket, and then 330 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:26.640 I went back and looked and it was really Goldfinger where I was wearing a 331 00:26:26.680 --> 00:26:33.200 white dinner jacket, Rolex watch and a rose in his lapel. I never 332 00:26:33.240 --> 00:26:36.319 forgot that I always wanted to wear it, but I didn't. I bought 333 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:42.480 a beautiful made to measure tux sedo would be made from me in Italy by 334 00:26:42.599 --> 00:26:48.599 Ralph. I ended up having to go back and forth to the Ralph's store 335 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:52.000 to have a tailored far too many times. And I've talked on this show 336 00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:56.960 that they have a problem with the tailoring. Let me step back. During 337 00:26:56.000 --> 00:27:02.000 my college years, I worked in men's clothing stores and I sold tailed clothing. 338 00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:04.400 I knew all the different examples. I knew how to mark the sleeves. 339 00:27:04.440 --> 00:27:07.920 I knew how to take in the backs. I knew when the shoulders 340 00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:10.960 needed to be lifted or a shoulder pad added. I knew when the calls 341 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:12.680 had to be shortened. I knew when they had to be tapered or let 342 00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:15.240 out. I really knew all the dimensions. And here I am in Ralph 343 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:19.839 working with these tailors, and it took too many times to get it done, 344 00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:23.759 and I would give them a rating of bad on their tailoring in that 345 00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:29.839 store. I've mentioned it before, whoever marks it should alter it, and 346 00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:33.640 I think it would fix that problem. But I will tell you. When 347 00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:37.000 I came in to pick up the suit finally and I put it on, 348 00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:41.799 I looked in the mirror and I said, oh my gosh, I can't 349 00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:48.480 picture a suit fitting any better than this suit fit. Not since I had 350 00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:53.720 my fashioned faux pars many years ago, and I tried to chase fashion instead 351 00:27:53.720 --> 00:27:56.519 of developed my own style. I looked in the mirror. I was wearing 352 00:27:56.599 --> 00:28:00.880 orange shirt. I went crazy, how bad I looked I went to an 353 00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:03.319 event, and I embarrassed myself. The next day, I got dressed in 354 00:28:03.319 --> 00:28:07.240 a navy blue suit, white shirt, navy tie, looked in the mirror, 355 00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:11.000 couldn't believe how good I looked. For me, I said to myself, 356 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:12.799 I can't look better than this. I'm going to give me myself a 357 00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:17.200 rating one to ten. Ten. This is the best I could look. 358 00:28:17.240 --> 00:28:21.039 And because of that, I started wearing navy suits for the next twenty years. 359 00:28:21.559 --> 00:28:22.920 I changed them up, I had them all numbered. They were never 360 00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:26.599 the same ones, but a navy suit every day for twenty years. Not 361 00:28:26.799 --> 00:28:30.000 since that day did I feel so good about the way I looked as I 362 00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:34.839 did when I looked at this tuxedo when I went to the event. I'm 363 00:28:34.880 --> 00:28:41.160 a judging guy to night shows. We judge bad, average, good, 364 00:28:41.319 --> 00:28:47.480 excellent, elite. Oh we judge. I judge. I've looked at everyone 365 00:28:47.519 --> 00:28:49.640 there, from the people who I guess who rented tuxedars, to the people 366 00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:52.880 had their own tuxedars, to the way they fit them, the length of 367 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:56.759 their pants, the way the jack sets fit, the ones that were pulling, 368 00:28:56.839 --> 00:29:00.279 the ones that would too loose, and the fabric. When I looked 369 00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:07.839 at myself and this Ralph Lauren Purple level made to measure. I was amazed. 370 00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:12.000 I was shocked. I don't think it's possible to look any better than 371 00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:15.519 I looked that night. Now forget my face, forget my hair, forget 372 00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:21.319 the fact that I'm thin. It was the way the tuxedo fit, the 373 00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:26.559 way this luxury item fit was the way it was supposed to fit. The 374 00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:33.640 material looked amazing, it had character. The way the pants hung and draped 375 00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:41.279 looked amazing. The way I looked in the suit was priceless. And I 376 00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:45.920 can tell you that my sons and I, having had the benefit of shopping 377 00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:55.359 and Ralph Purple label and the mansion, we looked better suited than anyone else. 378 00:29:56.119 --> 00:29:59.640 I want to judge we were elite. I'll take a break and we'll 379 00:29:59.640 --> 00:30:04.599 continue some judgment where we get back always in fashion. Spent a lifetime of 380 00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:10.559 my career building the van Usen Brand, and I am so pleased that they're 381 00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:15.000 back with us now talking about suits. Men, we're dressing up again, 382 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:19.039 and it's become cool to wear a suit. Suits can be one on multiple 383 00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:23.160 occasions in multiple ways. You could wear a suit formally to go out at 384 00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:26.359 night or to an event, to wear a suit to the office with or 385 00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:30.799 without a tie. If you look closely, now fashion trends suits are being 386 00:30:30.839 --> 00:30:37.920 worn with turtlenecks or mocknecks. The choices are endless and every one of them 387 00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:42.640 looks right. You could really really look the part. I believe that packaging 388 00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:47.480 yourself this is important. Does the products you package and wearing a suit is 389 00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:52.400 one of those things that make men look their best. Venues and invented a 390 00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:56.240 new idea. It's called the cool Flex suit. It's been engineered with stretched 391 00:30:56.359 --> 00:31:02.640 technology, giving you the most comfortable and mobility. It's wrinkle resistant fabric, 392 00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:06.880 it's cool moisture wicking. It makes it perfect for all occasions. As we 393 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:11.480 discussed just now, this new style of looking shop while feeling cool and comfortable 394 00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:18.000 is amazing and I'm so excited that the van Using company is involved in this 395 00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:22.400 new technology and is embracing the whole idea of dressing up. Let's not forget 396 00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:26.319 van Uson made its name with dress shirts. It's only proper that the suit 397 00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:32.319 business follows strongly in its way. You can find van Us and cool Flex 398 00:31:32.359 --> 00:31:37.720 Men's stretch suits at JC Penney are online at jcpenny dot com. Guys, 399 00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:41.200 they're great. You should go look at them. Welcome back to Always in 400 00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:47.319 Fashion. Here's your host, Mark Webber. We judge tonight. I'm judging 401 00:31:47.319 --> 00:31:49.160 the world and everything in it. I can't help it. I spend the 402 00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:53.359 day the week hanging out seeing what's going on around. Man. I can't 403 00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:57.519 help them make judgments. You know different. Don't go lead us on me. 404 00:31:57.839 --> 00:32:01.559 Can't you all do the same thing? Well, judge, we're humans. 405 00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:04.920 One of the bad thing about us, I guess one of the good 406 00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:09.240 things. We make decisions based on that. But gosh, when I was 407 00:32:09.319 --> 00:32:13.480 twenty three years old and I had met my wife, I remember saying to 408 00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:16.559 her, if we could all stop eating, drinking and breathing, we'd live 409 00:32:16.599 --> 00:32:21.680 forever. Go No, I turn out to be a prophet. Everything we 410 00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:25.559 eat is killing us. Everything we drink it's not healthy. And lord knows 411 00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:30.599 what we're breathing right now. Oh my gosh, smoke and fire. Whoever 412 00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:37.640 thought of this? Now? The pundits on climate change and global warming and 413 00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:43.799 all this stuff, I tend to want to empathize agree with. I live 414 00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:49.240 on the water. I'm always concerned about water levels rising, and if in 415 00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:52.480 fact the Earth is getting warm. I'm concerned the glaciers start to melt in, 416 00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:55.599 the water levels rise, It's going to affect me. It's already affecting 417 00:32:55.599 --> 00:33:00.440 the rest of the world. Coastal cities. Remember the Sandy storm where the 418 00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:07.240 water came over East River flooded out huge apartment buildings as skyscrapers in Lower Manhattan. 419 00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:13.440 It's crazy, But blaming Canada, well, nice to blame Canada. 420 00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:16.799 Just healthy thing to blame someone about ourselves. But the reality is they have 421 00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:22.720 fires. How do you police billions of miles of trees and forests around the 422 00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:27.319 globe? You can't, and it gets a little far fetched and you lose 423 00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:30.359 your credibility. But the reality is, this is what I was thinking. 424 00:33:31.079 --> 00:33:35.880 You know, we're here on Earth. We got rock and ground under our 425 00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:37.599 feet. We walk in the grass, we walk in the beach, on 426 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:42.480 sand, We look up at the sky. Well, everything is lovely. 427 00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:45.559 We forget for a moment that we're a planet. We're a planet. We're 428 00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:49.920 in the middle of space. Any one of us who ever saw a space 429 00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:54.960 movie knows how incompatible space is. And we have this atmosphere that's saving us 430 00:33:55.000 --> 00:34:00.480 from the rest of the space. Well, one planet with universe that just 431 00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:04.640 never ends. We're floating around out there, revolving around the Sun. Do 432 00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:10.119 we forget about that? Do we forget that we're vulnerable that natural disaster and 433 00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:15.480 this stuff happens because it's part of space. We're really not on this ground 434 00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:21.800 somewhere and everybody else is out there. Leads some credibility to UFOs and what's 435 00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:23.360 going on with all of that. But when I sit and think about what's 436 00:34:23.400 --> 00:34:27.559 going on, the fact that we can't breathe right now we're supposed to be 437 00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:32.639 in the house making me crazy. So I guess the question is on judging 438 00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:38.719 the people who are leading the charge on climate control or turning the planet green. 439 00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:45.119 Please pick your spots to be smart, don't ruin it anyway. Tonight 440 00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:50.159 is about judging. There are so many times in business. I'll look business 441 00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:55.199 for a second where you can't get people to gree on anything. It's very, 442 00:34:55.440 --> 00:35:01.239 very frustrating. There have been times that I've had meetings where designers I've 443 00:35:01.280 --> 00:35:05.480 talked to you about this come in, they present their line and it's terrible, 444 00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:07.480 and there's ten people in the room And when you look at someone else 445 00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:09.719 and I say, you know what, I'm the one making the judgment. 446 00:35:09.800 --> 00:35:13.760 This is terrible one to ten. What do you give it to? Designers? 447 00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:15.320 Is nine and a half? I said, well, I give it 448 00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:19.679 a zero. What do you other people think? Nobody's willing to step up 449 00:35:19.679 --> 00:35:23.880 and give an opinion because it's embarrassing. It's in public forum, and they 450 00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:27.360 don't want to be the ones to say it's a four or five. They 451 00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:30.840 don't want insulted designer who they have to work with afterwards. And it's a 452 00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:32.679 problem. But my friends and I invented a game called the ballot game, 453 00:35:32.679 --> 00:35:37.079 where in college and basically speaking, you sit around a room, you pick 454 00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:39.440 some subjects you want to talk about, give everyone a pencil and paper, 455 00:35:39.639 --> 00:35:43.039 and you ask for the comments. You take them, crumple them up, 456 00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:47.320 throw it in a hat, and you get them back unedited and uninspired to 457 00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:52.920 a particular human. So if you said something nasty or not nice or whatever, 458 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:57.000 it's not attributed to you. So it's comfortable. And I've used this 459 00:35:57.119 --> 00:36:00.400 game in business. I'll never forget the story. I'm at tkmy and I 460 00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:04.880 remember in meeting Donna, Karen, you want to talk about a tough interview. 461 00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:07.840 I had a series of meetings with her before I joined the company. 462 00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:12.559 She was brutal, and in the end LVMH stepped in and just said, 463 00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:15.880 this is our guy, Donna, we're taking it. You remember, they 464 00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:19.280 owned the company. I joined the company, and we had a good relationship 465 00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:22.039 at times. You had great relationship at times, and most of the times 466 00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:24.880 it was adversarial. I was a management, she was the talent. We 467 00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:29.719 didn't necessarily agree on how she was spending money, where her time was spent, 468 00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:32.079 what she thought was important. But she's done a Karen, and she's 469 00:36:32.119 --> 00:36:36.440 more than entitled to her opinion. She earned it and I respected her a 470 00:36:36.519 --> 00:36:39.960 great deal for what she built, how many people built companies were six hundred 471 00:36:39.960 --> 00:36:45.760 million, seven hundred million billion dollars amazing sold it to LVMH. So she 472 00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:49.199 was really like me, a worker. They wanted her, they needed her, 473 00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:51.880 They wanted her face, they wanted a likeness, they wanted her image, 474 00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:53.679 they wanted her involved. So we had to be nice to her. 475 00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:58.039 That's one of the secrets at LVMATES. You have to make sure the talented 476 00:36:58.079 --> 00:37:01.360 designers are happy. Yet you were responsible for running the business anyway. I 477 00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:05.480 heard all the stuff from her roll along the way about what are an amazing 478 00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:08.079 company runs, and how everything is perfect and this and that, And then 479 00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:12.159 when they were having a meeting, and I'm looking at the financials of a 480 00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:15.480 business, and I'm sure, like any of you, it's probably the same. 481 00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:21.039 You make money on the simple things. Those things that are a stretch 482 00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:24.400 you make less of, you make less money, So you make sure you 483 00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:29.440 have a lot of basics. I always said that in fashion, what you 484 00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:35.960 do is you make basics cleverly disguised as high fashion items. And I remember 485 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:38.119 looking at the women's line. I'm looking at all the collections and I'm looking, 486 00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:43.079 we sell no pants. I said, We're in the sports where business 487 00:37:43.159 --> 00:37:46.400 for women. How can we not sell pants. Well, we've tried them, 488 00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:52.119 We've never been successful. And I can see something's wrong here. And 489 00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:57.639 finally I created the ballot game. We had twenty women in the room and 490 00:37:57.840 --> 00:38:00.679 me, so I take out my hat. I asked my assistant to bring 491 00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:06.480 twenty pieces of paper, twenty pens and pencils. We hand them out and 492 00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:09.159 I said, okay, ladies and gentlemen, I have a question for you. 493 00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:13.079 This is going to be easy for your answer, because no one's gonna 494 00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:15.159 know who said what. I'm gonna ask you a question, you'll write down 495 00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:19.119 your answer. You crumple it up, I'll pass around the hat. You 496 00:38:19.239 --> 00:38:21.960 put your answer in. The hat went around the room. Everybody put their 497 00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:23.920 answer in. I shook up the hat. I said to my assistant, 498 00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:29.440 would you keep tracking the answers. I took mine out because I did it 499 00:38:29.559 --> 00:38:31.639 certain ways. I knew which was mine, and I wrote, I don't 500 00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:36.280 know, and she put down I don't know. And I told everybody that's 501 00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:38.639 me. Now we'll go on shelpus. The next one they don't fit, 502 00:38:39.159 --> 00:38:44.440 The next one they don't fit, the next one they don't fit. Nineteen 503 00:38:44.519 --> 00:38:49.000 women wrote on that piece of paper, it don't fit well. Now I 504 00:38:49.079 --> 00:38:52.559 know they don't fit, so I said to them, I don't understand. 505 00:38:53.480 --> 00:38:59.480 How could the greatest company in the world, according to Donna, have women's 506 00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:05.039 pants that don't fit well. We never seem to get it right now. 507 00:39:05.679 --> 00:39:08.920 Right away, I knew one of the problems, I said. Knitwear and 508 00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:15.039 woven ware are very different. Wovens are very rigid, even stretch woven's they'll 509 00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:20.880 only stretch to a point. Knitwear stretches tremendously when you make knit garments. 510 00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:23.239 If you don't when you have the fabric, lay them out on the table 511 00:39:23.599 --> 00:39:28.280 and allow them to rest in its natural state for a day or two. 512 00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:31.239 You'll never have pants that fit properly, or shirts or anything because the minute 513 00:39:31.239 --> 00:39:36.079 you cut them into shapes, they shrink and they'll never be right. So 514 00:39:36.159 --> 00:39:38.840 first thing, you need dwell time onion knitwear. Secondly, they react differently, 515 00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:43.280 need different patterns to make both. And they said, you're right, 516 00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:45.000 So I said, why haven't you done this? Nobody can answer the question, 517 00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:47.719 So I said to them, here's what I want you to do. 518 00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:52.880 I want you to get everyone size in the room except for me, and 519 00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:54.800 I want you to make each and every one of you ladies here a pair 520 00:39:54.840 --> 00:39:59.800 of knit pants and a pair of woven pants. Have them made up and 521 00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:02.719 aware test. What I mean by that is you're going to have them all 522 00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:07.239 made up in your size at the factory we used to make pants, send 523 00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:08.480 them back. Each one of you ladies are going to try them on, 524 00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:12.719 and in front of our technical designers, they're going to fit you and look 525 00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:15.239 at you and see what's right and wrong. Sounds so simple, isn't it? 526 00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:19.840 And it worked because after that we started a pant's business and twenty percent 527 00:40:19.880 --> 00:40:24.679 of our sports web business became pants. So that's where judging and commenting and 528 00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:30.719 coming up a way to evaluate really came in handy, and it really really 529 00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:35.400 worked. Now. I have some other observations this week, and I want 530 00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:40.280 to talk about them just in general. I don't trust the government. It's 531 00:40:40.280 --> 00:40:43.639 not the government, really, I don't trust. It's big business. I 532 00:40:43.679 --> 00:40:47.360 don't trust now. I should because I trusted the companies I was with. 533 00:40:47.480 --> 00:40:53.880 But when I think about for twenty years, I took bare Baby Astern eighty 534 00:40:53.880 --> 00:40:58.079 two milligram because my doctor told me to do it, and then one day 535 00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:01.039 out of the blow take them anymore. They're not safe. What are you 536 00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:04.840 crazy? I've been doing it for twenty years. What happened? We get 537 00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:08.639 new information? Okay, I'm a fan of diet coke. You want me 538 00:41:08.719 --> 00:41:14.519 to make a judgment. McDonald's diet coke is the best diet coke in the 539 00:41:14.519 --> 00:41:21.119 world. This week I read an article that diet coke kills you. It 540 00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:31.039 breaks down the cell structure that allows chemicals and other very harmful byproducts that are 541 00:41:31.079 --> 00:41:37.559 working through your digestive system to enter into cells and destroy them, and the 542 00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:40.320 worst of these known to mankind, it causes I don't even like mentioning it 543 00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:47.159 by name. So I want to put a judgment on these companies from Bed 544 00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:52.199 to Elite. You went from elite and diet code to Bed. I'm giving 545 00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:55.280 it up. I'm breaking my habit. What's going on here? On another 546 00:41:55.360 --> 00:42:00.840 note, did anybody notice how old May and June has been so far? 547 00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:07.039 I'm wearing a jacket every day I go out. Nobody mentions that. I 548 00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:09.920 wonder why you don't have to agree with me. It's only my opinion, 549 00:42:09.960 --> 00:42:19.719 but these observations are hard not to agree with. While I'm judging electric cars 550 00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:25.199 from bad to elite, electric cars bad, let me tell you why great 551 00:42:25.239 --> 00:42:31.800 idea executed poorly. There's too much concern for charging anxiety. People are anxious 552 00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:34.880 every time they get in the car. They don't know if they'll bring them 553 00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:38.480 home, and there's no way to charge him. Bad the planning, it's 554 00:42:38.519 --> 00:42:43.880 ready fire aim. They've given no thought to what has to do. It's 555 00:42:43.880 --> 00:42:46.159 a great idea, it's a lad idea to have electric cars, but without 556 00:42:46.199 --> 00:42:52.519 a plan, without understanding the environmental effects of increased electricity, overloading the grid, 557 00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:58.679 without understanding the long term effects of making batteries and disposing of them. 558 00:42:59.239 --> 00:43:07.400 Electric ours are bad. Global warming, climate control bad, the worst marketing, 559 00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:13.320 confusing message of anything I've ever seen. Everything is causing temperatures to rise. 560 00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:16.320 Plan needs one. I can't even rate it yet. What should we 561 00:43:16.360 --> 00:43:21.400 do? How do we actually tackle the fires? There's no way to control 562 00:43:21.519 --> 00:43:24.760 it, but you're calling it and blaming it on global warming. We had 563 00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:29.559 more rain this year than any year I can remember. Glaciers are melting, 564 00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:31.920 raising water levels. Maybe that's something we should talk about. Maybe we should 565 00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:37.559 be talking about building barriers to prevent coastal areas from flooding in the future. 566 00:43:38.079 --> 00:43:43.760 What should we do? Climate issues are for the elite. It's the best 567 00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:49.880 intentions, the approach bad. While I'm on the subject of bad, having 568 00:43:50.039 --> 00:43:55.079 enemies bad, we shouldn't have any enemies. Russia doesn't have enemies. China 569 00:43:55.159 --> 00:43:59.320 doesn't have enemies. They're friends with everyone. They're milking everyone. They're getting 570 00:43:59.320 --> 00:44:04.440 whatever they want for anyone spending money Russia. Why isn't the war ending? 571 00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:09.360 Why isn't President Biden and President Zelinski talking about what they're going to have, 572 00:44:09.559 --> 00:44:15.079 what they need, what they want and end this war? And Russia get 573 00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:20.559 in the loop with President Biden and the war people are dying. Trump said 574 00:44:20.559 --> 00:44:22.320 it the other day, stop the war, and day one if he's elected. 575 00:44:22.679 --> 00:44:28.519 It doesn't like seeing people dying. This is crazy. So President Biden, 576 00:44:29.159 --> 00:44:34.159 stop falling down on as one steps, stop falling off your bike. 577 00:44:34.840 --> 00:44:38.599 Don't run again. We love you, but it's embarrassing for you. You're 578 00:44:38.599 --> 00:44:43.320 too old. You've done your time. You've helped this country. You've done 579 00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:47.400 whatever you think you need to do. Let someone more youthful come in do 580 00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:53.480 the job, and lastly, help putinheld the war. Please. On a 581 00:44:53.599 --> 00:44:59.559 lighter note, I mentioned sports at the beginning of the show Yankees rating bad 582 00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:02.679 count on. You can't win a game, can't be consistent, can't put 583 00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:07.960 a team on the field that wins consistently. You're making me crazy. We'll 584 00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:10.079 take a break. When you come back, we'll finish up rating what's going 585 00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:15.840 on in the world. Always in fashion. I've been shopping for fun lately, 586 00:45:16.039 --> 00:45:19.400 and while I'm out, I always look at men's and I look at 587 00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:22.599 women's. What's going on? And I was particularly interested in Decay because of 588 00:45:23.079 --> 00:45:28.840 their sponsorship of the show. I went downstairs at Macy's thirty fourth Street to 589 00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:31.039 look around, and I saw a Decmy active where and I promise you, 590 00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:36.599 ladies, it is sensational, from the sports braws to the crop tops, 591 00:45:36.639 --> 00:45:39.559 to the leggings and the sweats. It really is a great look and dec 592 00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:45.679 and Y had begun as an all American brand dressing casual clothes engines and the 593 00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:52.000 stuff looks incredible and right now the colors and the styles is so exciting that 594 00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:54.719 I feel great about the company. I always do. I wear the men's 595 00:45:54.760 --> 00:46:00.000 wear all the time. I've had situations where I've gone to big events, 596 00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:04.840 been interviewed TV or radio and someone comes up to me and the microphone and 597 00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:07.599 like they always do, who you wearing? And here I am, this 598 00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:08.920 big shot with a big company and they said, well, I'm wearing a 599 00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:13.239 DKNY and they laugh and say, no, you're not. Actually have one 600 00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:15.679 on the internet where you could see me. They asked me what suit I'm 601 00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:17.960 wearing, and I say, DC Andy had opened it up and there's the 602 00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:22.199 DKNY label. Great fashion, it fits well, it looks right. It's 603 00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:27.559 designed to make you comfortable in the city, goes from day and to night. 604 00:46:27.639 --> 00:46:29.880 You can wear it in the morning, wear in the afternoon, and 605 00:46:29.880 --> 00:46:31.559 you look cool at night as well. It's great for the office is great 606 00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:36.719 Felisia. But I was talking about the dcmy activewear. The first time I 607 00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:38.920 really became aware of it. Jesse and I were up at Sirius Radio. 608 00:46:39.239 --> 00:46:45.079 He was doing a job for Serious he does Dan Abrams show, he fills 609 00:46:45.119 --> 00:46:47.760 in on the Potus Network, and we're in the lobby and this hip hop 610 00:46:47.800 --> 00:46:55.119 group came up. Well, this really great looking Latino singer girl Young beautiful, 611 00:46:55.159 --> 00:46:59.119 and she was wearing a DKNY sports bar and I said to myself, 612 00:46:59.159 --> 00:47:02.159 this is amazing. Actually went to Macy's to see it, and I'm excited 613 00:47:02.159 --> 00:47:06.039 about the brand. And I'll tell you what, ladies, dk Y always 614 00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:09.880 has great fashion for work, always wonderful dresses and things that you'd wear. 615 00:47:09.880 --> 00:47:15.519 Their accessories are great, the shoes are always very cool. But activewear in 616 00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:19.800 particular right now looks sensational. 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Welcome back 643 00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:14.760 to Always in Fashion. Here's your host, Mark Webber. We judge everything. 644 00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:16.480 I started off tonight in a really good mood, and then when I 645 00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:21.159 got into it, I really got angry. I started thinking about something I 646 00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:24.039 said when I was young. If we all didn't eat, drink or breathe, 647 00:49:24.039 --> 00:49:30.840 we'd live forever. Here we are. Something crazy fires in Canada, 648 00:49:30.920 --> 00:49:35.519 affecting a hundred million Americans. We can't go out safely. It's the summertime, 649 00:49:35.559 --> 00:49:37.519 it's springtime, you want to play, you want to be out there 650 00:49:37.519 --> 00:49:40.440 a sports whatever. We're being asked to stay indoors once again, and we're 651 00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:45.159 being asked or worn to wear a mask when we go out crazy, no 652 00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:50.239 wonder, I'm angry. Then we just stuck at home. You watch the 653 00:49:50.280 --> 00:49:53.119 news, where's the good news? Maybe we should start a new channel. 654 00:49:53.159 --> 00:49:55.840 Here's something to think about. iHeart. Why don't we start a channel cool 655 00:49:55.920 --> 00:50:00.519 good news? And all we talk about is good stuff? Why do we 656 00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:04.320 talk about the things that aspire us? In fact, maybe I'm going to 657 00:50:04.360 --> 00:50:07.599 do a show just called good news. Maybe next week it's going to be 658 00:50:07.639 --> 00:50:10.039 called good news and only talk about good things. Maybe be a great thing 659 00:50:10.119 --> 00:50:14.559 for this world, in this country, just to talk about things that are 660 00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:19.360 pleasant, that are happy, and forget leave all your troubles behind. Having 661 00:50:19.400 --> 00:50:23.840 said that, tonight I talked about judging. We judge everything. We judge 662 00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:30.159 everything from the degree that our toast is toasted, through the color of your 663 00:50:30.199 --> 00:50:35.679 eyes to the size of your wallet, to the people you hang out with. 664 00:50:36.440 --> 00:50:43.159 We judge everything, friends, relatives, family, Everything gets a judgment, 665 00:50:43.159 --> 00:50:45.039 whether we like it or not, self consciously or not. We make 666 00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:50.519 decisions based on those judgments. I have rating systems one to ten, one 667 00:50:50.559 --> 00:50:54.159 to five, and in this case bad, average, excellent, elite. 668 00:50:55.119 --> 00:50:59.400 It's a system. I thought it was interesting to share that with you, 669 00:50:59.440 --> 00:51:04.840 and I hope you found tonight interesting. That aside, I'll judge this show 670 00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:07.199 next week. Good Night,