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Who is Mark Webber. He's a self made business executive here to help you
find your success from the New York City projects to the Avenue Montaigne in Paris.
His global success story in the luxury world of fashion is inspirational. He's
gone from clerk to CEO twice. Mark is classic proof that the American dream
is alive. And well, here's your host of Always in Fashion, Mark
Webber. Weber. The world's in a bad place. The obvious. We're
living in a divided country politically, economically, ideologically, we're in each other's
face. We're protesting, arguing, disrespecting bee who you are, I don't
care, just don't force me to agree. And the others problems are their
crime, poverty, immigration, that's us. But I said the world's in
a bad place, war, disease, and now fire and smoke. Who
would ever envisioned being forced indoors again this time because of fires in Canada?
You can't make the stuff up. A hundred million Americans are in danger because
of wildfires in Canada. Really, after two years of COVID stay indoors masking
outside, here we are again. Climate change activists have taken ownership for this
fiasco. I have to ask billions of acres of trees and forests around the
world, come on, it can't be manicured. There's plenty of rain this
year. There are natural disasters. There always have been, there always will
be. Footnote where a planet floating in space were like Mars, where a
planet stuff happens. But someone who respect whispered something else to me to consider.
It's starting to feel like Biblical times. The plague, fire, smoke,
floods, the threat of nuclear war, human suffering. They whispered to
me. Maybe we should consider that God is angry at us when you consider
that God only gave us ten commandments, just ten rules to follow in living
our lives, just ten. I'm willing to bet almost none of us,
with the exception maybe of the faithful, the bias, the most religious might
know what the ten actually are, let alone honor those commandments. I'm pretty
sure no one does. Maybe we're being told our behavior is not acceptable.
Man plans and God lasts something to consider. We're not doing the right thing.
Now, you conspiracy theorists, here another one. Maybe we should consider
all these UFO sidings, our planets, our neighbors. Word. We're destroying
the earth. Maybe they have something to say about it. We're in a
bad place. Current catastrophes aside, current events aside. The idea of bad
to good got me thinking. I've always subscribed to the principle that good isn't
good enough, that good is the enemy of great, and that good is
lazy. I've learned in the time I've spent competing, it's clear that only
great wins. Now sports teaches this lesson every day and every night. The
fact that goes further than great. Pick a sport. Baseball, the Yankees,
Gian Carlos Stanton good could be great, he's always injured, Anthony Rizzo
excellent. Aaron Judge is the elite, a very special place, rarefied air
now Also in the Yankee the pitches Nasty Nest are good. Garrett Cole elite.
How about golf Tiger Woods elite, Rory McElroy great, Justin Thomas good.
It could be divided even further, Bruce, keepka good every day,
but elite for the majors. I can talk acting directors, designing, business
leaders. We judge, we have systems. Everything is up for categorization.
Hey, take politicians are elected officials. I'll rate them all bad. We're
all on the scale. What do we fit. We can be elite one
day, bad the next. It's not just skills, its attitude. When
I'm insightful, I can amaze myself. When I am angry, never fails.
How bad and stupid I could be. When I'm playful, I know
I'm getting in trouble. I'm on record once again. Humans don't like them.
The scale I'm using tonight is for humans bad, average, good,
great or elite. I've seen humans run the gamut more often bad than average,
even less good, let along greater elite. I'm never surprised with bad,
but I'm always shocked when I find excellent or elite judging me. I'm
the judge and jury. I make up my mind. That's it. Before
you start frowning on me, I think you're not that different. I think
not. You probably do the same thing. Now. My scale for rating
it has always been one to ten. I've seen many surveys asking to rate
this way. I've seen rating systems of one to five, same principle,
less choices. Maybe that's easier, less delineations. I read an article I
tried to lay out a judging process. I don't remember where I saw it.
Maybe it was the movie Air. That movie was a ten or five,
depending on how you want to use the system, or elitely great.
Got me thinking about all the observing I've been doing, all the critiquing.
Require We judge everything people, places, things, sounds, smells, tastes,
touches. That covers the five senses. We make judgments based on ethnicity.
Unfortunately, we judge people by currentry of origin. Unfortunately, we judge
by gender, unfortunately, by size and weight. Unfortunately. I just point
us out to make a point. We judge everything right or wrong. We
judge. We make judgments the second we meet someone by their face or facial
expression. Are they respectful? What is the opening line that comes out of
their mouth? How do they fall up to the response I give anything?
Then we consider in judging, will you deliver as promise? Do you look
or sound like you'll do what you'll say you'll do? Then we get superficial.
What color or the clothes you're wearing? Are your clothes clean? Press
neat? For that matter? Do you look clean? Do your clothes fit?
Ladies? Not too tight? Too from peek? Guys? Are your
pants dragging? Are your sleeves too long? We look at your shoes.
They are the window to your soul. Oh, I'm judging. It's not
fair. But like trick cereal faire as for kids, is it right?
Hell? No, who hasn't learned you can't judge a book by its cover.
Yet we all do in the courtroom, in the movies, in real
life we're all judge judy. We're judging. Now. Having said this,
I've been around, I've been seeing, listening, interacting, just judging,
and that's what I want to talk about tonight, and the system of bad,
average, good, great or elite. Now i'll start, Actually,
i'll start with fashion. This is the part where I would normally introduce my
son, lawyer and co host Jesse Weber, but I can't believe it.
He got married last week. He's on his honeymoon. He's not here,
and I'll try not to judge him too harshly. If you're try not to
judge me for even considering he has a responsibility. It was a amazing event
at the plaza. Hotel. Put a little judgment on the plaza is in
order. I want to make a point and I want to make a lesson
learn. I get to the plaza, it's time to check in. I
go to the front desk. The nicest guy, bright eyes, articulate,
friendly, looks me up, sees I'm part of the bridal party, congratulates
me, then offers he has a beautiful suite for me as requested, gives
me two keys, points out the elevator, and tells me my rate is
eighteen hundred dollars plus tacks per night. Enjoy my stay. After that,
it's pretty hard to enjoy. I'm taking a room, or I'm buying the
hotel. I actually said him, you'll like working for me. Now I
bought the hotel. He gets rated excellent. I get to the room.
Room is good. Should have been better, should have been larger. Bathrooms
are great. Lighting. Average view of a brick wall bad. I didn't
pay eighteen hundred plus tacks to look at a brick wall, so I called
down. I asked to speak to my guy. Sorry, mister, Webber.
That's the room you're assigned. Well, I don't want to be assigned
this room. Let me look what I have for you. Okay, have
a room facing the fountain. Twenty two hundred dollars plus tax. He quickly
went in my eyes from excellent to bed. Let's just say I went to
bad attitude in record time. I was obnoxious, But that's okay. The
Plaza was bad. I'm blad now. All in all, I give the
hotel a rating of good, as they said it earlier. Good isn't good
enough. It should be excellent, should be elite. It's a luxury hotel.
Is that what a luxury company wants as a rating? Would you recommend
the Plaza to your friends in college? Yes, with a caveat. By
the way, I should point this out. My sons and I met for
breakfast at ten am the morning after the wedding. We were reminiscing, talking
about the good time we all had. We were literally chased out of the
restaurant at ten fifty five am so they could set up for eleven o'clock seating.
Once again bad. You ask me, Plasi, you have three guys
who threw a wedding in your hotel. The night before, we're sitting at
a table isolated from everyone else. I understand you want to set up for
lunch. Maybe you could have may do with one table less. I loved
the hotel. The rating just then was bad, but my rating of average
or good, I'm sure that's not what they're looking for. I'm sure that
a luxury hotel, one of the few in the city, needs to think
about everything, all the components and what they're doing to the people that are
there. I spent the luxury price. I don't think I quite got the
luxury service. But tonight it's about judging bad, average, good, great
or excellent and elite. We'll talk some more when we get back. Always
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look great. Welcome back to Always in Fashion. Here's your host, Mark
Webber. We judge everything. That's what I'm thinking about this week. I
read an article and I noticed the different system than one I used to for
judging. I'm a one to ten guy once in a while, one to
five it's less to choose from. But they did a system based on actual
words, going from bad to average to good to excellent or great to elite.
I start to think about what was going on in the world, and
I want to rate different things tonight. That's what the show is about.
I'm going to judge. I'm going to be judge and jury judge mark right
now, I want to rate the fashion system. There's bad, which is
crap quality or ugly. There's average, which is disposable fashion it's cheap but
styled well. Then there's good. The basic brands, you know the products,
you recognize them, you trust them, designer which is excellent for quality
and design, and the designer which is excellent for quality, but the design
could be ridiculous. To sublime. Luxury is the elite, the best that
money can buy, perfectly crafted, timeless design, something special. And that's
the breakdown tonight in my judging format, but in particular, I want to
discuss the elite luxury. There's no trading up or down when it comes to
luxury. It's not a menu. You're not choosing from column a o'columb Luxury
is luxury. There's no such thing as lux There's a name. I've been
hearing a lot, Lady Lux. I've already used luxes a want to be
expression. It's for people that are non luxury that want their non luxury brands.
They want to use it to trade up and make believe there's something.
Don't be fooled. Abraham Lincoln said, just because you say a dog's tail
is another leg doesn't make it a leg. You are what you are.
There's first class and there's schmuck class, then some mutants. My favorite talk
affordable luxury. No less than my former boss, CEO and founder of LVMH,
Louis Vatomo, Ed Hennessey Bernard or No had something to say about this
statement, and I quote affordable luxury. These are two words that don't go
together. There's no such thing as affordable luxury. In fashion and retail,
you are who you are. Yes on the rating scale, there's below Walmart,
you find a bad zero. And there's the elites, the tends that
are the luxury brands, and you know them, you know who they are.
Ptec Philippe, Rolex Ferrari, Bentley, Rolls, Royce Vitone, Dior,
Chanel product for luggage, Hermes, the saddlemaker for leather and accessories,
Bulgarie Jewelry, Four Seasons Hotels, retail. It's burged off Goodman and even
Marcus. These are companies. These are brands that have a history, very
often in Europe, where the history is far longer than dating back to the
beginning of our country. These brands were established with no compromise. Luxury are
products are uniquely crafted and carefully curated. They're expensive, now interesting, there
can be a new one. Tom Ford has no history, but he's impeccably
positioned and he started an elite never ever compromised on quality or his message.
But the luxury company Mantra always is what is the best way and how can
we make the best product? Then they'll talk about course. Now me,
I'm a man of the people. I really like average. I've lived a
portion of my career in that corporate life. I'm proud to represent the good
and designer as well. Some companies. I've noticed how a luxury component Michael
Kor's collection is a small component to Halo to Michael Kors, they call it
the good or their better line, which is an eight or ten good versus
elite, all within one brand. Another great example who spans this luxury rating
scale is Ralph Lauren. He has factory stores that I call average, good
product, fair price, Polo is Good, Ralph Lauren Women's Collection, Elite,
Ralph Lauren Purple Label Men's Elite. I become an appreciator of luxury.
There's no question I can be a man of the people. I grew up
as a man of the people. I appreciate the good parts of life and
the good things that are there. But I've worked hard, I've traveled the
world. I've developed a taste for the elite. I'm a chameleon. Sometimes
I'm a man of the people, and I buy things in all kinds of
stores, from Target to Uniglow to Macy's, all the way up to burgdof
Goodman. I love the elite. I love luxury products, and it's the
top of the food chain that I want to talk about right now. Service
an elite car, It'll blow your mind. The garage is as clean as
the finest hotel, lobby, the best French restaurant. You stand there,
you talk to them. They talk to you like you are to be respected.
They compliment you on the choice of car you selected. They make it
clear how important it is for them to service your needs. You ever buy
a luxury watch, you to see that experience when it comes to service.
First, to sign in, you're greeted what can I do for you?
Thank you for being here today. Then they turned you on too a professional
who'll handle your service request. This attendant is in uniform, usually a black
suit for men and women, and they'll only receive your item and felt gloves,
treating is as they would find jewelry, which it is. They treat
it as if it's special. Then there's an authentication process. They take it
in the back, give it to an engineer, a technician who will make
sure that if it's a Rolex, it's a Rolex. Then they receive the
watch. They take it to the back of the house. Another technician examines
it, then determines the service level required. A whole process is priceless.
It's very different than you go in somewhere else, Hey can you fix my
watch? Via Hambeck if etone herm is there's a uniform associate. They addressed
perfectly. These people involved, they're often multi lingual, they come from various
different countries, impeccably trained, behavioral perfect and product they're technically savvy. They
can talk to you about luxury and the history of luxury and everything they do
signals the DNA of the brand, like leather and saddles for hermas vetoned trunks
signaling another era. I love it, I respect it, I admire it,
and I want it. Jesse had a wedding at the Plaza. I
discussed it earlier, but I'm on fashion now and I want to talk to
you about Ralph Lauren Purple label. I only recently became a fan, an
admirer, and a purchaser a Ralph Lauren Purple label. Every time I went
into the store, I would say, who are these idiots spending this money
for a suit or a sweater? And I became one of those idiots.
Now there are a couple of reasons. First of all, in the entirety
of my career, when I was at PVH, with brands such as Calancline
or Eyes a Tommy Hill figure, I could only wear my brands. No
matter where I went, I would be seen wearing these products, and I
had to be careful. It wouldn't serve me well to be wearing someone else's
logo At the level of the corporation that I existed in, whether it was
president, board member, CEO. You have to be loyal to your own
brands also gave me an incentive when I work with the brands to make sure
the products were special. And there were things that I would wear with a
lifestyle and mine crossed, so I could never wear Ralph from a distance.
I was always an admirer and I always wanted to wear certain products, but
I just couldn't. But as I moved into this career, I became a
free agent. I'm able to wear whatever I want. And yes I have
sponsores, and yes I wear their products, and yes I love them,
but their sponsors and I treat them with respect. And everything I talk about
in the commercials is with respect. That it's real because I wear my sponsor's
product. But I came enamored with Ralph Lauren Purple label. Now I've said
this before. If you listen to the show, you've heard me talk about
it. There's something unique about the purchasing experience a purple label. In the
mansion on seventy second Street in Manhattan, it's got its own floor Purple label.
It migrates to one or two floors, sometimes even three, But when
you're on the main floor buying tailored clothing, it's an otherworldly experience. The
tailors, the sellers, the expertise that's exhibited, the way the merchandise is
displayed. If you ask me, Ralph Lauren has the best merchandise product in
the world. And in this case i'm talking which you see in the windows,
what you see in their advertising, the way they put it all together
is so appetizing. Now Here I am. I needed a tuxedo from my
son's wedding. You'll see white tie in tails. You'll see double breasted,
you'll see single breasts. You'll see choyl collar, you'll see black, you'll
see navy, You'll see white dinner jackets. All of them have boutineers,
all of them have pocket squares, all of them have beautiful matching ties and
vests wherever appropriate. It's so well laid out, it's so appetizing. Even
if I didn't want to buy, I'm forced to buy now. As the
good father I am, and the good father of the groom that I am,
My sons and I went to Ralph Lauren to buy our tuxedos, and
I sponsored them. My son had an amazing double breasts of tuxedo, but
he wanted a single breasted with a vest and he bought it, and it
just looks different than any of the tuxedo you'll see from anyone else. My
son's white dinner jacket was impeccable. I said in my speech during the wedding
that I always wanted to wear a white dinner jacket, but because Jesse did,
I couldn't. He wanted to be above and beyond and far from anyone
else at the thing, and we goofed about it, but he was right.
He looked amazing. White jenna jacket fit him perfectly. I did call
out that ever since Thunderball, I wanted a white dinner jacket, and then
I went back and looked and it was really Goldfinger where I was wearing a
white dinner jacket, Rolex watch and a rose in his lapel. I never
forgot that I always wanted to wear it, but I didn't. I bought
a beautiful made to measure tux sedo would be made from me in Italy by
Ralph. I ended up having to go back and forth to the Ralph's store
to have a tailored far too many times. And I've talked on this show
that they have a problem with the tailoring. Let me step back. During
my college years, I worked in men's clothing stores and I sold tailed clothing.
I knew all the different examples. I knew how to mark the sleeves.
I knew how to take in the backs. I knew when the shoulders
needed to be lifted or a shoulder pad added. I knew when the calls
had to be shortened. I knew when they had to be tapered or let
out. I really knew all the dimensions. And here I am in Ralph
working with these tailors, and it took too many times to get it done,
and I would give them a rating of bad on their tailoring in that
store. I've mentioned it before, whoever marks it should alter it, and
I think it would fix that problem. But I will tell you. When
I came in to pick up the suit finally and I put it on,
I looked in the mirror and I said, oh my gosh, I can't
picture a suit fitting any better than this suit fit. Not since I had
my fashioned faux pars many years ago, and I tried to chase fashion instead
of developed my own style. I looked in the mirror. I was wearing
orange shirt. I went crazy, how bad I looked I went to an
event, and I embarrassed myself. The next day, I got dressed in
a navy blue suit, white shirt, navy tie, looked in the mirror,
couldn't believe how good I looked. For me, I said to myself,
I can't look better than this. I'm going to give me myself a
rating one to ten. Ten. This is the best I could look.
And because of that, I started wearing navy suits for the next twenty years.
I changed them up, I had them all numbered. They were never
the same ones, but a navy suit every day for twenty years. Not
since that day did I feel so good about the way I looked as I
did when I looked at this tuxedo when I went to the event. I'm
a judging guy to night shows. We judge bad, average, good,
excellent, elite. Oh we judge. I judge. I've looked at everyone
there, from the people who I guess who rented tuxedars, to the people
had their own tuxedars, to the way they fit them, the length of
their pants, the way the jack sets fit, the ones that were pulling,
the ones that would too loose, and the fabric. When I looked
at myself and this Ralph Lauren Purple level made to measure. I was amazed.
I was shocked. I don't think it's possible to look any better than
I looked that night. Now forget my face, forget my hair, forget
the fact that I'm thin. It was the way the tuxedo fit, the
way this luxury item fit was the way it was supposed to fit. The
material looked amazing, it had character. The way the pants hung and draped
looked amazing. The way I looked in the suit was priceless. And I
can tell you that my sons and I, having had the benefit of shopping
and Ralph Purple label and the mansion, we looked better suited than anyone else.
I want to judge we were elite. I'll take a break and we'll
continue some judgment where we get back 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
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they're great. You should go look at them. Welcome back to Always in
Fashion. Here's your host, Mark Webber. We judge tonight. I'm judging
the world and everything in it. I can't help it. I spend the
day the week hanging out seeing what's going on around. Man. I can't
help them make judgments. You know different. Don't go lead us on me.
Can't you all do the same thing? Well, judge, we're humans.
One of the bad thing about us, I guess one of the good
things. We make decisions based on that. But gosh, when I was
twenty three years old and I had met my wife, I remember saying to
her, if we could all stop eating, drinking and breathing, we'd live
forever. Go No, I turn out to be a prophet. Everything we
eat is killing us. Everything we drink it's not healthy. And lord knows
what we're breathing right now. Oh my gosh, smoke and fire. Whoever
thought of this? Now? The pundits on climate change and global warming and
all this stuff, I tend to want to empathize agree with. I live
on the water. I'm always concerned about water levels rising, and if in
fact the Earth is getting warm. I'm concerned the glaciers start to melt in,
the water levels rise, It's going to affect me. It's already affecting
the rest of the world. Coastal cities. Remember the Sandy storm where the
water came over East River flooded out huge apartment buildings as skyscrapers in Lower Manhattan.
It's crazy, But blaming Canada, well, nice to blame Canada.
Just healthy thing to blame someone about ourselves. But the reality is they have
fires. How do you police billions of miles of trees and forests around the
globe? You can't, and it gets a little far fetched and you lose
your credibility. But the reality is, this is what I was thinking.
You know, we're here on Earth. We got rock and ground under our
feet. We walk in the grass, we walk in the beach, on
sand, We look up at the sky. Well, everything is lovely.
We forget for a moment that we're a planet. We're a planet. We're
in the middle of space. Any one of us who ever saw a space
movie knows how incompatible space is. And we have this atmosphere that's saving us
from the rest of the space. Well, one planet with universe that just
never ends. We're floating around out there, revolving around the Sun. Do
we forget about that? Do we forget that we're vulnerable that natural disaster and
this stuff happens because it's part of space. We're really not on this ground
somewhere and everybody else is out there. Leads some credibility to UFOs and what's
going on with all of that. But when I sit and think about what's
going on, the fact that we can't breathe right now we're supposed to be
in the house making me crazy. So I guess the question is on judging
the people who are leading the charge on climate control or turning the planet green.
Please pick your spots to be smart, don't ruin it anyway. Tonight
is about judging. There are so many times in business. I'll look business
for a second where you can't get people to gree on anything. It's very,
very frustrating. There have been times that I've had meetings where designers I've
talked to you about this come in, they present their line and it's terrible,
and there's ten people in the room And when you look at someone else
and I say, you know what, I'm the one making the judgment.
This is terrible one to ten. What do you give it to? Designers?
Is nine and a half? I said, well, I give it
a zero. What do you other people think? Nobody's willing to step up
and give an opinion because it's embarrassing. It's in public forum, and they
don't want to be the ones to say it's a four or five. They
don't want insulted designer who they have to work with afterwards. And it's a
problem. But my friends and I invented a game called the ballot game,
where in college and basically speaking, you sit around a room, you pick
some subjects you want to talk about, give everyone a pencil and paper,
and you ask for the comments. You take them, crumple them up,
throw it in a hat, and you get them back unedited and uninspired to
a particular human. So if you said something nasty or not nice or whatever,
it's not attributed to you. So it's comfortable. And I've used this
game in business. I'll never forget the story. I'm at tkmy and I
remember in meeting Donna, Karen, you want to talk about a tough interview.
I had a series of meetings with her before I joined the company.
She was brutal, and in the end LVMH stepped in and just said,
this is our guy, Donna, we're taking it. You remember, they
owned the company. I joined the company, and we had a good relationship
at times. You had great relationship at times, and most of the times
it was adversarial. I was a management, she was the talent. We
didn't necessarily agree on how she was spending money, where her time was spent,
what she thought was important. But she's done a Karen, and she's
more than entitled to her opinion. She earned it and I respected her a
great deal for what she built, how many people built companies were six hundred
million, seven hundred million billion dollars amazing sold it to LVMH. So she
was really like me, a worker. They wanted her, they needed her,
They wanted her face, they wanted a likeness, they wanted her image,
they wanted her involved. So we had to be nice to her.
That's one of the secrets at LVMATES. You have to make sure the talented
designers are happy. Yet you were responsible for running the business anyway. I
heard all the stuff from her roll along the way about what are an amazing
company runs, and how everything is perfect and this and that, And then
when they were having a meeting, and I'm looking at the financials of a
business, and I'm sure, like any of you, it's probably the same.
You make money on the simple things. Those things that are a stretch
you make less of, you make less money, So you make sure you
have a lot of basics. I always said that in fashion, what you
do is you make basics cleverly disguised as high fashion items. And I remember
looking at the women's line. I'm looking at all the collections and I'm looking,
we sell no pants. I said, We're in the sports where business
for women. How can we not sell pants. Well, we've tried them,
We've never been successful. And I can see something's wrong here. And
finally I created the ballot game. We had twenty women in the room and
me, so I take out my hat. I asked my assistant to bring
twenty pieces of paper, twenty pens and pencils. We hand them out and
I said, okay, ladies and gentlemen, I have a question for you.
This is going to be easy for your answer, because no one's gonna
know who said what. I'm gonna ask you a question, you'll write down
your answer. You crumple it up, I'll pass around the hat. You
put your answer in. The hat went around the room. Everybody put their
answer in. I shook up the hat. I said to my assistant,
would you keep tracking the answers. I took mine out because I did it
certain ways. I knew which was mine, and I wrote, I don't
know, and she put down I don't know. And I told everybody that's
me. Now we'll go on shelpus. The next one they don't fit,
The next one they don't fit, the next one they don't fit. Nineteen
women wrote on that piece of paper, it don't fit well. Now I
know they don't fit, so I said to them, I don't understand.
How could the greatest company in the world, according to Donna, have women's
pants that don't fit well. We never seem to get it right now.
Right away, I knew one of the problems, I said. Knitwear and
woven ware are very different. Wovens are very rigid, even stretch woven's they'll
only stretch to a point. Knitwear stretches tremendously when you make knit garments.
If you don't when you have the fabric, lay them out on the table
and allow them to rest in its natural state for a day or two.
You'll never have pants that fit properly, or shirts or anything because the minute
you cut them into shapes, they shrink and they'll never be right. So
first thing, you need dwell time onion knitwear. Secondly, they react differently,
need different patterns to make both. And they said, you're right,
So I said, why haven't you done this? Nobody can answer the question,
So I said to them, here's what I want you to do.
I want you to get everyone size in the room except for me, and
I want you to make each and every one of you ladies here a pair
of knit pants and a pair of woven pants. Have them made up and
aware test. What I mean by that is you're going to have them all
made up in your size at the factory we used to make pants, send
them back. Each one of you ladies are going to try them on,
and in front of our technical designers, they're going to fit you and look
at you and see what's right and wrong. Sounds so simple, isn't it?
And it worked because after that we started a pant's business and twenty percent
of our sports web business became pants. So that's where judging and commenting and
coming up a way to evaluate really came in handy, and it really really
worked. Now. I have some other observations this week, and I want
to talk about them just in general. I don't trust the government. It's
not the government, really, I don't trust. It's big business. I
don't trust now. I should because I trusted the companies I was with.
But when I think about for twenty years, I took bare Baby Astern eighty
two milligram because my doctor told me to do it, and then one day
out of the blow take them anymore. They're not safe. What are you
crazy? I've been doing it for twenty years. What happened? We get
new information? Okay, I'm a fan of diet coke. You want me
to make a judgment. McDonald's diet coke is the best diet coke in the
world. This week I read an article that diet coke kills you. It
breaks down the cell structure that allows chemicals and other very harmful byproducts that are
working through your digestive system to enter into cells and destroy them, and the
worst of these known to mankind, it causes I don't even like mentioning it
by name. So I want to put a judgment on these companies from Bed
to Elite. You went from elite and diet code to Bed. I'm giving
it up. I'm breaking my habit. What's going on here? On another
note, did anybody notice how old May and June has been so far?
I'm wearing a jacket every day I go out. Nobody mentions that. I
wonder why you don't have to agree with me. It's only my opinion,
but these observations are hard not to agree with. While I'm judging electric cars
from bad to elite, electric cars bad, let me tell you why great
idea executed poorly. There's too much concern for charging anxiety. People are anxious
every time they get in the car. They don't know if they'll bring them
home, and there's no way to charge him. Bad the planning, it's
ready fire aim. They've given no thought to what has to do. It's
a great idea, it's a lad idea to have electric cars, but without
a plan, without understanding the environmental effects of increased electricity, overloading the grid,
without understanding the long term effects of making batteries and disposing of them.
Electric ours are bad. Global warming, climate control bad, the worst marketing,
confusing message of anything I've ever seen. Everything is causing temperatures to rise.
Plan needs one. I can't even rate it yet. What should we
do? How do we actually tackle the fires? There's no way to control
it, but you're calling it and blaming it on global warming. We had
more rain this year than any year I can remember. Glaciers are melting,
raising water levels. Maybe that's something we should talk about. Maybe we should
be talking about building barriers to prevent coastal areas from flooding in the future.
What should we do? Climate issues are for the elite. It's the best
intentions, the approach bad. While I'm on the subject of bad, having
enemies bad, we shouldn't have any enemies. Russia doesn't have enemies. China
doesn't have enemies. They're friends with everyone. They're milking everyone. They're getting
whatever they want for anyone spending money Russia. Why isn't the war ending?
Why isn't President Biden and President Zelinski talking about what they're going to have,
what they need, what they want and end this war? And Russia get
in the loop with President Biden and the war people are dying. Trump said
it the other day, stop the war, and day one if he's elected.
It doesn't like seeing people dying. This is crazy. So President Biden,
stop falling down on as one steps, stop falling off your bike.
Don't run again. We love you, but it's embarrassing for you. You're
too old. You've done your time. You've helped this country. You've done
whatever you think you need to do. Let someone more youthful come in do
the job, and lastly, help putinheld the war. Please. On a
lighter note, I mentioned sports at the beginning of the show Yankees rating bad
count on. You can't win a game, can't be consistent, can't put
a team on the field that wins consistently. You're making me crazy. We'll
take a break. When you come back, we'll finish up rating what's going
on in the world. 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 Decay because of
their sponsorship of the show. I went downstairs at Macy's thirty fourth Street to
look around, and I saw a Decmy active where and I promise you,
ladies, it is sensational, from the sports braws to the crop tops,
to the leggings and the sweats. It really is a great look and dec
and Y 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,
been interviewed TV or radio and someone comes up to me and the microphone and
like they always do, who you wearing? And here I am, this
big shot with a big company and they said, well, I'm wearing a
DKNY 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 Andy had opened it up and there's the
DKNY label. Great fashion, it fits well, it looks right. It's
designed to make you comfortable in the city, goes from day and 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 is great
Felisia. But I was talking about the dcmy activewear. The first time I
really became aware of it. Jesse and I were up at Sirius 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 was wearing a DKNY 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 DCMY go take a look. As one of the world's most
celebrated fashion designers, car Lagafeld was renowned for his aspirational and cutting edge approach
to style. His unique vision of Parisian ship comes to America through Carlagofeld Paris.
He has women's collections, men's collections, ready to wear, accessory,
shoes and bags. The fashion house Carlagofeld also offers a range of watches.
I wearing premium fragrances. You can explore the car Lagofel collection a Karlagofeld Paris
dot com. But it's more than that. I for one, love to
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 were 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
So Carlgafel dot com Paris. The women's ready to wear fashion is extraordinary,
as well as the hand egs in the shoes. I for one, wear
men's clothes on like 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 Carlagafelt is my
buddy. Clothes are great, they fit great, and they have little tweaks
and touches, whether it's a stripe on the sleeve or button at the neck
or on the shoulder. There's a lot of details that go into Carl Agafel
because he's always been, he always had been one of the world's great designers,
and this legacy and goes on and on. I can't speak enough about
it except to say to you, you want to feel good about yourself.
You want to know that your dress properly. You want close that fits you
well. Carl Lagafeld Paris at Macy's or Karl Lagafel dot com. Welcome back
to Always in Fashion. Here's your host, Mark Webber. We judge everything.
I started off tonight in a really good mood, and then when I
got into it, I really got angry. I started thinking about something I
said when I was young. If we all didn't eat, drink or breathe,
we'd live forever. Here we are. Something crazy fires in Canada,
affecting a hundred million Americans. We can't go out safely. It's the summertime,
it's springtime, you want to play, you want to be out there
a sports whatever. We're being asked to stay indoors once again, and we're
being asked or worn to wear a mask when we go out crazy, no
wonder, I'm angry. Then we just stuck at home. You watch the
news, where's the good news? Maybe we should start a new channel.
Here's something to think about. iHeart. Why don't we start a channel cool
good news? And all we talk about is good stuff? Why do we
talk about the things that aspire us? In fact, maybe I'm going to
do a show just called good news. Maybe next week it's going to be
called good news and only talk about good things. Maybe be a great thing
for this world, in this country, just to talk about things that are
pleasant, that are happy, and forget leave all your troubles behind. Having
said that, tonight I talked about judging. We judge everything. We judge
everything from the degree that our toast is toasted, through the color of your
eyes to the size of your wallet, to the people you hang out with.
We judge everything, friends, relatives, family, Everything gets a judgment,
whether we like it or not, self consciously or not. We make
decisions based on those judgments. I have rating systems one to ten, one
to five, and in this case bad, average, excellent, elite.
It's a system. I thought it was interesting to share that with you,
and I hope you found tonight interesting. That aside, I'll judge this show
next week. Good Night,