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And well, here's your host of always in Fashion, Mark Weber. Mark
Weber. Baby, locked the door in, turn the lights down load,
put some music on it, solved and slow baby. We ain't got no
place to go. Help you on the stand and thinking about this, oh
day long never failed, the feeling quiety strong. Can't believe how much it
turns me on just to be your man. I've had that song in my
head for a week now. I can't get it out. Good evening.
If I'm singing a song something inspired me. I have to tell you be
your man. Josh Tanner, Wow, great song, can't get out of
my head. But the song got me to thinking, not just singing,
thinking. I had a tough week, so much to do, so much
follow up, too many phone calls, far too many follow up calls.
You ever notice that one call never gets it done anymore? Maybe he's always
this way. Maybe when I had a personal assistant and tend direct reports getting
things done, it was simpler. Perhaps, as the expression goes, back
in the day, it was different. Who knows. All I know is
that everything is I have. I scroll through my emails like I'm rolling cards
in a poker game, slowly squeezing the cards, a tiny view of the
time of the hidden cards after the drawer. I dread reading the emails.
I'm learning to hate emails. I want to be left alone. Too many
companies, by the way, have decided I'm a friend. Seems that every
brand I've ever purchased from feels I need to hear from them every day.
Nike, Adidas, foot Asylum, Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Land,
Rover, suit Supply, Uniclo, Peter Lick, Oh my goodness. Then
this LinkedIn Aston Martin Ferrari, Tesla, four Seasons, Rit called Marry at
Hilton, Tiffany, Ralph Lauren. Hey, I'm not your friend, I'm
not your pen pal. I don't want to hear from you every day.
I don't care what you have to say. I am not into it.
When I want you, I'll find you enough. Leave me alone. Democratic
Party, leave me alone. Republican Party, leave me alone. I'll make
up my own mind when it's time to vote. Yeah, there's too much
stuff truth be told. If your friends, you'll be there when I need
you, if your quality holds up? Will you alter my tailoring and time
and accurately? Will you make returns simple? We have the parts to repair
my car when it needs repair. When I'm on your website, will you
have my size? Will you keep my data safe? You know the answer.
I know the answer. I don't need to hear from you. I
don't need you to be there when I need you. I'm paying for the
privilege of you being there. I need you to be the man when I
need you. Yeah, that song got me thinking, I'm your man.
So simple, a phrase, so embedded in all life's interactions. We're here
to serve your needs. We understand you, we know mark, you have
choices. We will deliver for you anyway I come across this song by Josh
Turner, deep voice, country voice, soulful love it. It gets me
thinking, Yes, it's a romantic song, but I can't help turning it
into business. Can I count on you to get the done? And that's
the night show? I'm your man? Are you mine? Speaking the man?
My lawyer, my co host, my son, Jesse Weber. That
was surprisingly good. I was actually listen to your voice. I think,
why do I really feel like the last time you started this show back in
the day by singing every night? I think, yeah, I did it,
So that's how you did it. Yeah, No, you got a
good voice. I don't know if. I don't know if American Idol worthy,
but good No chance on American Idol, no chance. But I like
when you sing by the way. I like that song. I think you're
right and how hard it is to get things done? Everything is annoying.
Every five seconds you try to get something done, it's always a headache.
You try to get something done, three things are added on to it.
Nothing is ever easy. You want me to give you an example because I'm
fired up. There's a brand. I'm not gonna mention what it is,
but I'm buying a pair of shoes, a pair of boots. I saw
these boots. They were perfect. They were exactly what I've been looking for
mons I was looking for, like a combination of a winter boot a leather
boot. Found them. They look great. So I put in my credit
card information. I get them, I get the confirmation email. I don't
hear anything from the company for like a week, nothing like, oh your
item has been shipped. Nothing. So I write them back, don't hear
them back. I call them, the line gets disconnected. So now I'm
wondering, is this even a real company anymore? I call my credit card
company. I'm like, listen, I think this is a scam. I
don't know. I want you to cancel the charge of like we're gonna put
it on a hold as we investigate. I got an email back from the
shoe company and they said, oh, so sorry, it took us so
long to get a hold of this. We completely understand. Look, we've
have a back order, we've had a lot of problems. If you want
to cancel your order, it's fine. I was like, yes, cancel
my order, refund. They write me back, great, taking care of
Guess what happens A day later, I get another email from them. You
never responded to us. Do you still want us to take care of this?
I'm like, I just responded to you. What is going on?
Everything's annoying. So I don't know if I'm out the money, if I'm
getting boots. I don't know what's happening. But it's very annoying. It's
hard to count on people. Having said that, in the different shows that
I do, I have great teams, and I know these are people that
I can count on. Go to people. That's always the best kind of
thing. Well, anyway, Jesse, I'm sorry. I feel your pain.
I do it all the time. Having said that, you might go
to guy when it comes to Trump and Biden and what's going on around the
world. So, what's going on with Trump and the Supreme Court and all
these rulings. What's happening big week? Although not an unexpected development. So
remember when Donald Trump was kicked off the ballot in Colorado and other states were
trying to do it. They said he was an insurrectionist, he can't qualify
as a presidential candidate. Remember when that was happening. You know, I
don't you don't know. Where have you been? You don't read the news
now, you know. I'm a little tired with these two. I'll talk
about it later. Well, basically, in Colorado, he was removed from
the presidential ballot. They said because he engaged in an insurrection and that is
a violation of the fourteenth Amendment. But he was still convicted. There was
a whole back and forth about what does an insurrectionist mean? How do you
prove it? This? By the way, the fourteenth Amendment really came about
during the Civil War. They didn't want those in the South to take office.
Okay, So we knew that the Supreme Court was eventually going to take
it up, and they did and in a nine zero ruling, meaning all
of the justices said that Donald Trump cannot be kicked off the ballot. And
the reason they said it is a sense. This makes sense, it's common
sense. That's why I said, Well for reviews, they said, a
state cannot dictate whether a presidential candidate can be on the ballot. If one
state says he can be on the ballot and another state says he can't be
on the ballot, it's going to create chaos. The states themselves can determine
who if someone could be kicked off of a state ballot, but not a
federal ballot. So that made a lot of sense. Trump can run in
any state. No one could stop. Yes, they're not going to kick
him off. Okay, great, What else did he win this week?
He also won Super Tuesday, so I mean big shocker there. He was
a blowout beat Nicki Haley. She won like one state, but she dropped
out of the race. Donald Trump's going to be the nominee. Biden's going
to be the nominee. Despite all these attempts to try to get alternative candidates,
we are back to twenty twenty. Well, I feel bad Nikki Haley
resigned from the election. I thought everything she said made sense. I didn't
think she won. I wouldn't have voted for her, but I thought,
in the country where it has freedom, everything coming out of her mouth made
a lot of sense. You got the country split once again. You have
half the Democrats, whether they admit it or not, don't think Biden is
the right candidate. They think he's sleepy, and he's you know, it's
okay to be old. You know, we're supposed to respect our elders.
It's okay to be old. But you have to be competent, and if
you're falling behind and your ability to be energized and do the job as he
clearly is. You see so many examples. How could they possible in good
conscience put him up for office. It's disgusting And as far as the Republicans
go, look, I'm a Trump believer. I knew Donald Trump back in
the day. As they say, I thought he was an honorable, serious
business guy who do a good job, and I like his policy. But
there's so many people against him. You're putting the Republicans in jeopardy of winsing
the election. All right, let's turn politics into rust Country is rusted?
What's happening with all of that? Alec Baldwin, So this week was a
very big verdict in the Rust shooting trial. So haven't you been on TV
all week talking about this? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, So you remember
there was a shooting on this film set Rust back in October of twenty twenty
one. A cinematographer was shot and killed when a bullet was discharged from a
gun that was being handled by Alec Baldwin. And you notice I didn't say
he fired the gun, because he says he never pulled the trigger, but
a live round came out of that gun and killed a cinematographer. Well,
there was a trial for the armorer and she went on trial for involuntary manslaughter,
and she was convicted this week. Now, if you followed the trial
like I did, this is all how old is she? She was twenty
four when back in twenty twenty one, so I think was she twenty seven
now twenty six? Twenty seven? But that was an argument by the defense.
You have a young, female, inexperienced armorer. She may have seen
that there were all these problems on the movie set, with accidental discharges and
actors waving the guns all arounds. Could she really have been expected to stand
up to Alec Baldwin, who was arguably rushing the production. The answer is
yes, that was her job. The prosecution charged her in such a way
that if the jury believe that, you know what, she didn't bring the
live rounds onto set, She didn't even load the gun. But as long
as she failed to check the gun before it was handed over to Alec Baldwin,
she's guilty. And I think that there was ample evidence to suggest that
she loaded the gun. She didn't check it properly, and she might have
brought the live rounds onto the set. There were so many problems that were
going on, from accidental discharges to live rounds being all to pull over the
place, to actors pointing the guns at each other, that it was so
foreseeable that someone would get hurt that I am not surprised the jury found her
guilty of involuntary manslaughter. They found her not guilty of one other charge,
but they found her guilty of involuntary manslaughter and now she could face up to
eighteen months in prison. And yeah, great question. What about Alec Baldwin.
So much bad stuff came out during this trial that it previews what to
expect with his trial in July, so he's facing an involuntary manslaughter charges as
well. First, there was an FBI analyst who took the stand basically said
the only way this gun could go off is if you pull the trigger.
And we remember that Alec Baldwin previously and famously said to George Stephanopolis on ABC
News, I didn't pull the trigger. It doesn't look good. And then
all of these videos of Alec Baldwin from behind the scenes during Rust, you
see him firing the gun, pointing it in places he shouldn't point it,
and rushing through the production go go go, we gotta go, We gotta
go. And so it could be argued that as the producer of the film,
as the lead actor on the film, he was creating a very unsafe
environment and he should have known better. So I think after this verdict he
must be shaken in his boots. I don't know what the soul has to
do with I'm Your Man, but it's interesting stuff that's going on in the
week. With this in mind, tonight this show is going to be about
standing up, taking responsibility, being the man, or in other words,
I need you to be my man? Or are you the man that show?
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to Always in Fashion. Here's your host, Mark Webber. I've been thinking
about being the man, but more importantly thinking about I'm your Man. I
heard a song I'm Your Man by Josh Turner Guyhan incredible voice country Western singer.
I loved it. Got me the song in my head got me thinking
about I even sang it to myself well day and all week long. But
really it led me to thinking about the kind of people you deal with in
life, whether they're go to people, the kind of people that get things
done. But before I go there, I'd like you to think of me
as one of those guys that I'm your man. I haven't told you,
Jesse, I want to do that. Okay, what I want to do
is I want you to come to me for your speeches. We're going to
a party soon. You're gonna give a little speech, I think, right,
I am going to be giving a speech, and I take it you
don't need my help on it, So that's okay, that's good. I
don't I like when you and guys are independent of me. But you know
what I want to do now, I'm going to prove to you. I
think that I can make speeches on any subject. You need some help with
speeches, your brother needs some help, you come to me. I got
it. You feel confident that whatever topic I give you, you're going to
be able to put a speech together. Well, I'm that's what I'm recored
saying, yeah, okay, Well, since we were just talking about politics,
you were running as for the president of the United States. I'd like
for you to give a political speech. Why should we vote for you?
So you're starting off easy? Huh? Why? Yeah? Actually, some
would say in this climate, you know, it may be easy to be
a third candidate. You know, it's not that hard. First of all,
I'm not a third anything. So if I'm running, I'm trying to
take over for Trump or Biden. So that's what I'm going to do here.
Okay, let me think about this. Okay, you're ready, Yeah,
let's do it, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Mark Webber. I'm running
for president of the United States. I've given it some thought. I'm a
futurist. I think about what is in front of us as a country,
not what's behind us, although I'm smart enough to learn from our mistakes and
from those things we did well. Some people think of the past is back
in the day, a time when things were better, time when everything just
seemed to be working in a different way. For me running for president.
For me, it's all about respect. When I think about back in the
day, I think about candidates who squared off in the market place trying to
be your president, who had respect for one another. They never made it
personal. It was about who had better ideas. And in that regard,
I ask you, Ronald Reagan said, are you better off now than you
were four years ago? Or is it time for a change? You See?
I always thought I was a good man, a man you can count
on to work hard for this country, to work hard for you, the
American people make life better. I believe in truth and honesty. I don't
believe in war, but I believe in strength for our military. I believe
everyone is entitled for a chance, their chance at the American dream. Study,
work hard, earn a living, educate your children, provide a home,
provide a safe environment. I believe it's government's responsibility to provide the opportunity
for you. I believe it would be my responsibility to create an America that
provides an opportunity for all of us to be treated the way we treat each
other, respect for one another. So what I say to you is this,
four years from now, when someone asked that question, are you better
off than you were before? The answer will be yes. A vote for
me is a vote for us. Good night, not bad, not bad,
short, sweet. I think, by the way I've always thought,
by the way, if you actually ran, you might actually be surprised.
I think people would turn to you. I don't think so anymore, and
I don't want to. And the same reason you don't like politics, I
don't like politics. So okay, So basically, as we go through you
very confidently saying you can prepare any speech for any topic, I have another
idea for you. Since he did so well with politics, I'll kind of
give you a little bit of a breather. This one should be easy for
you. How about this? How about you just talk about how people should
dress? That is easy. You really want me to do that? You
think I can't do that? I don't know. Can you? You think
I'm avoiding it? Huh? Let me hear you do it. Ladies and
gentlemen, Welcome to Always in Fashion. Tonight it was asked to give a
speech on the future of fashion, or maybe the nearby future. Spring is
coming, We're getting a reset or reboot. New flowers are growing, the
spring in the air almost Let's talk about fashion. You know. Tonight's show
is I'm your Man in my mind, It's about things you can count on.
We all have different lives. We all live lifestyles. We get up
in the morning, we have our breakfast. Some of us go to work,
some of us go to work out. We want brands that support us
through our endeavors in life, and are there fashion go to brand. That's
a question I've always asked myself growing up. The Gap was my go to
brand. I knew that I can go to any time into a Gap store
and find either pair of jeans or an autower piece, or a polo shirt
or a T shirt, something that no one else offered in great colors,
great fit, and affordable prices. They used to be my go to brand.
They no longer are My go to brand is now Unicor. You want
basics, you can find them on Unicloe. You want jeans, go to
American Eagle. American Eagles for you younger people, I find a way it
fits me too. Though it's beautiful, the colors, the denim, everything
makes sense. It's amazing. But the interesting thing about dressing, when you
get dressed, you have to ask yourself the question are you modern? Are
you traditional? One time a woman was in my office interviewing for job,
and she said something to me that was brilliant, So brilliant I remember at
the time saying, I'm going to use that for my rest of my life,
and I'm not going to give you credit for I'm going to take it
as my own. She laughed, as is that I, and I knew
I meant it. It was a brilliant thing that I had never thought about.
She said. The fashion world is broken up by navy or black.
Navy is traditional, and when you think about traditional, you think about Ralph
Lauren, Tommy Hill, figure Nordica. But when you think about modern,
you think about Calvin Klein, Kenneth Cole. I don't even know if he's
still out there anymore. All Saints, these are modern brands. The world
is broken up between navy or modern brands, which are black. So when
you think about getting dressed in the morning, which are you? Now there
are chameleons. Any one of you could be chameleons out there. Some of
you may dress navy one day, some of you may dress black another.
The reality is you want the other if you're a guy. But within those
spheres there are many choices. You have to look in the mirror. You
have to know where you are. I, for one, like classic clothes.
But in the end, I'm a modern guy. When I look at
myself in the mirror, I know that black is my friend. Like I
say in the commercials, I like Carl Lagefel because he's my sponsor. I
like these kinds of brands. Do you do you know what you're looking for?
Do you know who you can go to to count on? Every time?
I know every time I walk into theory, I will find something that
I will like and will make sense for me. I know that you ladies,
if you go into the main floor, you'll find Ralph Lauren decan Wy
designer at affordable. Rice is great. The best go to brand right now
is vtone. Used to be Gucci. Gucci's hard to buy from now there's
nothing there Vitone you will always find either handbags or accessories, even fashion that
will work the way for you. If Solaran I think is great. But
in general, who are your go to brands? Where do you go to
know that you can find something that you like? And where do you go
to know whether you're a Navy or a black person? You look in the
mirror and ask yourself, are you a traditional? Are you moderate? Make
the choice? Good night? How was that equally as good as the politics
speech you got me? Oh? Thank you? You win my vote?
I like it now. Look I'm not surprised though, because if anybody doesn't
know, I would say maybe outside of politicians and celebrities, you are the
best civilian presenter I have ever seen. I remember, even when I was
a little boy, your speeches were incredible. In fact, even this last
summer you were awarded a great award at an event one night there were a
lot of people who won awards. You were one of the people who accepted.
Of course, am I biased, Yes, but I still think you
gave the best speech out of anybody there. Thank you. But you know
what made it the best speech is from my delivery, and it was organized.
Of course, you guys out there, you gals, you make a
speech, you have to give it a great deal of thought. You have
to really understand what you're trying to accomplish. The speech needs a beginning,
a middle, and an end. And of course the way you delivered it
matters, and the writing it matters. But what made this speech, aside
from the obvious, was I looked out at the audience. It was a
compilation of people in retail, luxury fashion moll owners. It was a fascinating
audience, about five hundred people. And I looked out and I said the
following. All of you that I'm sitting here and looking at are all geniuses.
This industry so very often doesn't get credit for the fact that we're geniuses.
We have to invent ourselves all the time. You look at the auto
industry, they invent a new car. The car took them a while to
develop. Of course, it's a technology far superior and far more complicated than
what we do. But once they do it, they keep it. If
they're a quick moving company for five years, the others for ten. We
in this industry have to reinvent ourselves every quarter, every three months. We
have to excite the public. We have to excite our customers. We're geniuses.
When you think about that, it's not easy. We have to figure
out a way to invent things and convince you that you want them, even
though you don't need them. We have everything in your closets. Our customers
have everything they'll ever need. We are geniuses, and you're all to be
applauded. That's what made that speech pretty good. I agree, that's a
good point. Okay, see two for two right now. Remember we were
telling everybody that you were very confident in your assessment that you could give great
speeches no matter what the topic is. So I have a third topic.
I'm a go to guy when it comes to your speeches. Speech, I
got it. Okay, This one might be tricky for you because, as
you have said in the past, while you understand the basic framework of finance,
those numbers, some of those concepts can be very high falutant. They
might not be your specialty per se. So I'm gonna put you a little
bit of a challenge. Can you give a speech on finance? Hmmm,
tricky, right, I haven't thought about this stuff in a while. Let
me think. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for inviting me to
address you, all of you stockbrokers, all of your retail analysts, all
of you you people out there providing information to the public about what to do
with their finances, what to do with Wall Street. I appreciate. I'm
not a financial guy. I'm just a guy with a lot of common sense
who believed in what his father in law taught him, which is, simply
make a dollar, save two, let the money work for you. I,
for one, and not the guy to come to you talk to you
about risk. I don't believe in risk when it comes to money. I
work too hard to earn it, work too hard to save it. You'll
never find me at the craps table. You'll not find me at the blackjack
table. I don't risk. When I started finding success in this industry,
guy like you started calling me every day. Somehow or another, I became
a target list for clients. Somewhere they learned that I was a big earner
and that I would look to have people advise me financially. So every day,
like in Wall Street, there was a Bud Fox calling me up and
asking if he could represent me in investments. And I say, you know
what, I don't really need. No, that's not true, Mark,
I just got into a stock that did this. I know I could take
your portfolio and double it. I know, I know, I know,
and I never forget. I said to the last one. I remember having
said this to I learned the lesson. I said, I'll tell you what,
Bud. I'll make a deal with you. You invest my money for
me everything I earn, I'll give you fifty percent, but anything I lose
you cover. And of course, but I know I can't do that.
It turns out that's against the law. So those of you out there looking
for financial advice, let me give you my common sense approach to finance.
If your stockbroker was capable, and if he knew what stocks were going to
sell, what stocks were going to go up in price, he wouldn't be
working anymore. So if he's there, he may know a little bit more
than you but not enough to trust him across the board. You've got to
do it yourself. As an investor. The first thing you need to do
is make sure and under your credit card debt. Credit card debt is for
suckers. Then there's the question of loans versus cash. I've watched the internet
a whole big deal. I saw somebody talking about luxury cars and they said,
it's always better to take a loan than buy for cash because your cash
will earn you five percent in the bank right now. So if you're going
to buy a luxury car for five hundred thousand dollars, you know you all
have him out there. You could take a loan for five hundred thousand and
pay ten percent interest or fifty thousand dollars a year, or you could use
your own hard earned cash, give it up and not earn the five percent
on the five hundred or twenty five thousand dollars care So, how could you
possibly give advice that it's cheaper to pay for a car and a loan than
to pay for a car by cash. You can't make as much unless you're
risking your principle, which I don't believe in. So when it comes to
loans. I'm a cash guy. I don't believe in loans. It's common
sense. Now. I know you're all getting angry at me. I could
hear you, I watch you, I look at you. I can see
your faces. How could this guy who comes from the corporate world talk about
buying stock and take risks. I'll tell you how. I was the CEO
of a public company. I knew better than anyone in the world about my
company and how the company was going to perform. The problem is this performance
is not the only answer. So I could have the greatest apparel company in
the world, but if the industry is not faring well, my company will
go down with the rest of them. Then, of course, as a
CEO of a company, you listen to what I have to say. You
either believe me if you don't. If you believe me, you'll tote the
stock. If you don't believe me, you'll work against me. So all
of these come into play. You have a company. I never knew whether
my stock was going to go up or down. I had hoped it would
go up and down, but I never knew. It was always risky to
me, and I live by the principal and my father in law told me,
make a dollar, save two. Let the money work for you.
Thank you for inviting me tonight. Yeah, that was actually pretty good.
I didn't It's better than I expected. I didn't know who you'd handle that
one. Thank you? What he is surprised? You know. I walked
into a restaurant the other night and a woman who I know was with her
husband, says, man, you look good, and I said, you
sound like you're surprised. She goes, I don't know, you just look
good. I said, what do you mean? I said, the hair
must be theirs. No, it's kind of everything. So it was a
compliment, but it started out like a left handed compliment. I thought it
was hysterical. But anyway, okay, Jesse, thank you tonight. I'm
telling you it's about being the man, and I wanted to prove it to
you with the speeches. We'll take a break back in a minute. Always
in fashion, I 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 were dressing up again and it's become cool to wear a suit.
Suits can be won on multiple occasions in multiple ways. You could wear a
suit formally to go out at night or to an event. You wear a
suit to the office with or without a tie. If you look closely,
now fashion trends, suits are being worn with turtlenecks or mark next. The
choices are endless and every one of them looks right. You could really really
look the part. I believe that packaging yourself is as important does the products
you package, and wearing a suit is one of those things that make men
look their best. Venues and invented a new idea. It's called the cool
flex suit. It's been engineered with stretch technology, giving you the most comfortable
fit and mobility. It's wrinkle resistant fabric, it's cool moisture wiki. It
makes it perfect for all occasions. As we discussed just now, this new
style of looking sharp while feeling cool and comfortable is amazing, and I'm so
excited that the van Using company is involved in this new technology and is embracing
the whole idea of dressing up. Let's not forget van Using made it's name
with dress shirts. It's only proper that the suit business follows strongly in its
way. You can find van using cool flex men's stretch suits at jcpenny or
online at jcpenny dot com. Guys, they're great. You should go look
at them. D Knwhy Donna Karen, New York. Donna Karen began her
career as one of the finest, most successful, powerful women in the fashion
industry. She developed a collection aimed at the luxury market for women on the
go, women who were powerful in their workplace, women who had lives that
extended beyond the workplace, and her clothes went from day and to night.
An extraordinary collection. But the interesting thing Donna Karen had a young daughter,
and she had friends and they couldn't afford to buy the Donna Karen collection,
and Donna invented dk NY Donna Aaron, New York. It's an offshoot of
the Donna Karen collection. The same concept a lifestyle brand. Then we talk
about lifestyle brands, What does that really mean? Simply what they say,
there are brands that follow you throughout your lifestyle. You get up in the
morning, you start to get dressed. Donna Karen dcaan why as intimate apparel,
as hosiery, as all those products you're getting dressed for work. You
get accessorized shoes, handbags, and it takes you through the day. The
remarkable thing about DK and Y clothes for work, they work into the evening.
The dresses, the suits, the pants, the sweaters, the blouses,
extraordinary clothes at affordable prices that go from day in tonight. Part of
your lifestyle is active. You have weekends, you have events, you participate
in sports. Donna Karen's casual clothes did that under the DKNY label. A
vast array of casual sportswear that make women look great as they navigate their busy
lives. Whether you going to soccer games for your children, or whether you're
going out to the movies, whatever you want to do, DK and Y
Jenes dca Y sportswear is there for you. That's what a lifestyle brand is.
And I need to mention dk Y activewear, which is extraordinary, the
leggings, the sports bras, the sweats. You can wear DK why active
wear, certainly in the gym, certainly when you're working out at home,
and certainly if you want on the street, because it's that well done.
The quality of dk why is nothing short of exceptional, and why shouldn't it
be Because it was born from the idea of luxury made affordable for women of
America. DKY and Why a true lifestyle brand that takes you from day and
tonight, from the week into the weekend, DCN Why. You can find
DCN Why and mac DKY dot com. Welcome back to Always in Fashion.
Here's your host, Mark Webber. Of all things that came, of course,
a country song I'm your Man. Great song, just turn a deep
voice. I love that. I actually sing it all day long. Got
in my head. I can't get rid of it. But got me thinking
about relying on people, which is precious. With that in mind, Jesse,
you got anything that you can count on? You know, anyone you
can count on for anything? You and your wife isn't included you and I'm
not included, No, no can I Oh, just as anybody? Yes,
there is one person that I can count on for anything. I have
a producer for my show Prime Crime that I executive producer host. It's a
true crime documentary show. It's on YouTube. My producer I've worked with for
about a year and a half maybe two years, is a go to person.
He can help with anything. I'm like, can you find this?
She's on it? She's on things before I even think about them. She
double checks everything. She's so reliable and so thorough, it's like a dream.
I've told her this before. I said you were a blessing like I
can't explain it other than that. Probably not. Now, what about you?
You know, I'd like to say my barber, but I haven't had
a barber forever. I cut my own hair. But you know, I
really give some thought to this about what they call go to people in life.
There are certain things that make you so anxious that if you have someone
you could rely on, it's extraordinary. I have a guy who sells tires
in my neighborhood. The interesting thing about his company it's not just tires.
He does all these things in his autoshop, And whenever I have a problem,
I would go to him and say, hey, my engine light's on,
what's going on? Or you know I'm leaking oil, or I need
a checkup, or I need an inspection. He does everything, and he
didn't have it on his sign. I said, something's wrong here. You're
not all about tires. You do everything. You had to put up a
sign. About a week lady had a neon sign listing all the things that
his company does, so I gave him some help. But this guy,
whatever it is, I can count on him to help me. And it
became such a thing that I brought the whole family in. I think we've
become his most important customer because with you, my sons and friends and all
the cars we have. He's our go to guy. And the interesting thing
about him is he never says no to me. I've had cars die at
my house. He sends a truck out with the guys with the charges,
gets my car started. In fact, I had a fancy sports car that
broke down and stopped running at the gas station. I turned it off to
put in gas. I was stuck in the middle of the gas station,
in the middle of nowhere. I called him. What to do is,
mister Webber, tell me where you are. I'll be there. Sure enough
a half hour, lady shot up in a tow truck. Didn't need to
be towed. He brought one of those handheld charges, got my car started.
Amazing. That's a go to guy. The other kind of go to
guy. I have a story to tell you in fashion it I'm a trade
show guy. One of the largest trade shows in the world. Is the
Magic Show the Men's Apparel Guild in California. What it was was a way
for all the manufacturers in that area and the West Coast to come together and
show their products to all the buyers across America. And it grew so much
that it moved from California to Las Vegas. Never changed the name. It
was called the Magic Show, and eighty thousand buyers would come twice a year
to go to this Magic Show. And in order to be represented there,
like I was with Van using As on Calvin Klein, you had to build
trade show booths. One particular show, we had bought a new booth.
We're using it for the second time. I get there after the team is
setting up and they tell me we have a problem. What's the problem,
Well, Mark, apparently our booth was left out in the warehouse yard before
and it came rain and the whole booth warped. They're saying they're going to
be able to get it up and running. They're saying it'll be safe to
go into, but we're going to have to destroy it after this. I
said, it just costs US three hundred thousand dollars. What are you telling
me that's what they told me. I said, who's they the owner of
the company. I want to see the owner of the company when I get
there. So sure enough, my head of marketing, who's in charge of
this? And I met with this owner. I said to him, what
happened? Said, we had a problem last time after we put down the
booth, after we disassembled it, put it in the yard for pickup.
The truck company who came to pick came late. All the wood got caught
in the rain. By the time we put it away, it was wet,
it got molded, it warped, and it's no longer usable. I
said, when are you going to replace it? He says, I'm not.
I said, what do you mean? Look at your contract? What
is the contract. I'm responsible for putting up the booth, putting it down,
and making sure it's safe when we put it away. I said,
but you didn't put it away. You left it in the yard waiting for
the truck. It's not my responsibility. I said, that's what you're telling
me. He said, yeah, I'm going to have to do a new
booth. You know I'm not going to do it with you. If this
is your in person got rid of them. So I said to my guy,
we got to find a new place. We got a few months to
do it. And sure enough, going back on the plane from Las Vegas,
I run into this woman. We start to talk and what do you
do? I work for Nordica. What do you do for Nordica? Well,
I run the trade shows for Nordica. Really, I said, who
builds you booth? And she tells me it's a guy, Barry Ballin from
Gilbert Displays, Who's an amazing go to guy. And I say, can
I meet with him? She said sure, why not? So she rains
to meet Barry Ballen. I asked, I said, I have only one
question for you, Barry. I said, I had a booth built.
It cost me three hundred thousand dollars. I used it once. The guy
built a booth, he disassembled it, put it in the yard to be
picked up. It turned out that night it rained my booth and all its
parts got soaked wet. Put it away, and when he came to deliver
it this year it was destroyed. As all warped. It couldn't be used
again. I have to build another booth. She said that's not right.
I said, well, what would you have done, he said, if
you're doing business than me, I make sure the booth gets put away on
a truck before I leave. So I said, telling me that if you
had the same problem, I wouldn't have had this problem with you. Is
I guarantee it. I would never let anyone for my Steff or I sleep
at night unless that booth was packed ready for transporter. I view that as
my responsibility. What would have happened if God forbid somebody messed up, and
that's what happened to me, said, I would have built you a new
trade booth, but that's never gonna happen with me. And it turned out
I moved to him. The next booth I built was for one point three
million dollars, a double story booth that housed all our brands together, including
Calvin Eyes on Everything. And it was a remarkable feat of achievement. And
this guy was a go to guy so much so when I came to build
my house, I had him build for me all the cabinets and everything.
A great go to guy. I look for go to guys in my life.
In companies, you need go to guys. In my case was very
often go to gals. Women in the operations area, women that would make
things happen no matter what. While our business isn't that complicated, or it
shouldn't be. We're not building rocket ships. We are designing products of various
stifferent fabrics with various different constructions, manufactured all around the world, with fabric
coming from one location to another location. All of this has to be moved,
monitored, and programmed. And we have operations people that are responsible for
this. When I first showed up at LVMH and they asked me to run
Donna Karen and I was the chairman of Donna Karen, and I noticed that
their margins weren't what they should be. We start to talk and I'm drilling
down in early areas. They said, how is your freight charges? And
CFO says, we're very competitive. So I started to talk about, you
know, which shimping companies did they used to put transport merchandise from China,
Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Indonesia. Which boats did they
use to bring their merchandise to the United States. It gets real quiet,
and I said, what's going on? We don't use boats. What do
you mean you don't use boats? Well, how do you get the product
here? We fly? You fly? You mean you put it on airplanes.
If you're putting merchandise on airplanes, you are a sucker. It's only
for catastrophes. Do you fly merchandise to the United States? It's too expensive,
it's crazy. I said, this can't be. Why are you flying
merchandise rather than putting on a boat. They explained to me that they don't
have a calendar. Because they don't have a calendar, design never finishes their
job in time. And because design doesn't finish the design calendar on time,
everything get backed up. We don't have time to put it on a boat.
Boats take two to three weeks, and an airplane takes two or three
days. So everything is on airplane. So I look at the head of
design, Why don't we have a calend. That's not true. We have
a calendar, it's just that we miss it sometimes. They're saying, you
miss it all the time. Well, I guess if you get backed up,
you get backed up. So I looked at the head of operations and
I looked at it, and I said, can we do a calendar plan
that will get us from shipping things on boats rather than in airplanes. She
said, I can do that, but you know someone's going to have to
follow it. So that does a IGN said, you give me a calend,
I'll follow it. A week later we come in, she lays out
of calend, and she says, Mark, we can do this. The
only thing that we'd ask of you is we would like, rather than to
guess what we'd sell on the first delivery of every season, we'd like to
fly that only. So what are we talking about? She said, Well,
there would be four times one month we would ship by air, but
the balance we'd ship by boat at least to start, so we'd go from
twelve months to only four months air freight. I said, done, you
can make this happen. We'll make this happen. I said, I don't
want to have another meeting ever until we want to talk about eliminating the four
months by air. Can we all agree on that? We all agreed that
boom first full year I saved the company ten million dollars. Why because I
had a go to person delivery. This show tonight is about I'm your man.
There are people, men and women who get things done. I respect
him, I admire Thank you. Back in a minute, always in fashion
venues for over one hundred and fifty years now has been a mainstay in American
fashion. This brand that was invented for dress shirts was given to cold miners
when they exited the mills, dirty and dusty. The Phillips venues and company
Phillips families there to give them fresh new shirts that they could wear at home
and feel their best. Over the course of time, venues and dress shirts
grew and grew and grew to suit shirts and ties for the dress up.
But now sportswear has become a dominant part of the venues and collection. You
can find these products including sweaters, polos, quarter zips, trousers, and
even the best of fashion has to be preserved. I don't know if I
ever mentioned to you the advent of the men's necktie. There's nothing better in
a men's necktie business than the business lunch because guys we go out, they
have their lunch that have their salads or their beef and potatoes and snow stout
about it. They always stain their die and therefore the business grew and grew
venues and today doesn't want to make money on your hardships. They want to
do it and prevent you from having to go through that, And they invented
Stainshield. It's a technology that was invented to protect your favorite items. The
Stainshield collection provides extreme defense again water based stains by causing spills to beat up
before they can be absorbed into the fabric. This collection, by the way,
in addition to regular fits, is also often in all body sizes,
including big and tall. You can find Vanues and Stainshield and the great venues
in styled sports were at vanues in dot com. That's Vanusen dot com.
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 shit
comes to America through car Lagofeld Paris. He has women's collections, men's collections,
ready to wear, accessory, shoes and bags. The fashion house Carlagofeld
also off as a range of watches I wear in premium fragrances. You can
explore the Carlagovol collection at carlagofelpowers 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 wear obviously, but I can appreciate it,
and they look amazing. If you want to look right, you want to
have clothes that fits you well. You want to look like you're wearing something
that's very expensive, that's exclusive for you and yours. You can find it
at very affordable prices at Macy's Orcarlagofel dot com Paris. The women's ready to
wear fashion is extraordinary, as well as the handbigs and the shoes. I,
for one, wear men's clothes, unlike my appreciation of women's clothes.
I'm a modern guy. I want to look current. I want to look
the way I want to feel. I go out at night, I'm in
black and Carlagofel is my buddy. Calls are great. They fit great,
and they have little tweaks and touches, whether it's a on the sleeve or
button at the neck or on the shoulder. There's a lot of details that
go into Carl Lagafel 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 you're dressing properly. You want
clothes that fits you well. Carl Lagafeld, Paris at Macy's Orcarl Lagafel dot
com, Welcome back to it Always in Fashion. Here's your host, Mark
Webber. This is a world where it's difficult. Maybe it's just a point
in time, but it's nearly impossible to get things done. I've noticed I
can't get anything done with one phone call, well, one email, one
text. Everything requires follow up. We have a country that does agree with
anything. Half the country believes one thing, and half the country believes something
totally different. So how could so many people be right and so many people
wrong? How could that be? Everything is complicated. The one thing that
I've learned to look for, the one thing I'm working on in my life
is to simplify it. I don't like being hassled. None of us like
being hassled. I'm not unique. I learn to simplify it. I park
in New York City, one garage. I have three or four of my
favorite restaurants in New York City. I have three or four restaurants around the
world that I'll go to anytime I travel there. I want simplicity. I
want to know that I could count on people. I want to count on
people I can trust. I want to count on people that I know will
do me a favor if I need one. It's rare for me to ask
one, but they also know in return, whatever they ask me, I
will do. Family always comes first. Nobody ever refuses anyone in our family
anything. That's the way it's supposed to be. You want people that will
go out of the way to do that extra touch. You go and you
get your car service. When you go to pick it up, it's washed
and spotless. This is what we look for in life. Be the man.
I want to be your man. I'm your man. I heard a
song this week that got in my head. I never stopped listening. That's
what came this show about doing the right thing, being counted on, standing
up for what you believe, and being consistent. I hope you enjoyed tonight's
show. Good Night