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This show is produced and hosted by
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Who is Mark Webber. He's a
self made business executive here to help you

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find your success, from the New
York City projects to the Avenue Montaigne in

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Paris. His global success story in
the luxury world of fashion is inspirational.

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He's gone from clerk to ceo twice. Mark is classic proof that the American

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dream is alive. And well,
here's your host of Always in Fashion,

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Mark Webber. Mark Webber, I
clearly remember my first day dreaming at eight

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o'clock in the morning, beautiful summer
day, eighty five degrees, slight wind,

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blue skies, now clouds, birds
singing, insects tirping. I'm ten

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years old, not a care in
the world, lying down in the grass

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under a huge maple tree, looking
up at the sky. I'm so calm

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lying there, I'm the first of
my friends out and about why is the

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sky blue? I wonder? Swimming
on baseball today? I think both.

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I remember this day so clearly,
no plans, thinking about nothing, no

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cares in the world. It's a
happy time. It's called day dreaming,

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innocent of a child. I've always
been a dreamer. What if can?

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I? Would? I should?
I? Is it possible? In my

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own world? Webb's world, my
rules floating, never a care in the

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world, no politics, no problems, no nothing, just happy. Interestingly,

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I've noticed I dream vivid dreams at
night, new ideas, new ways

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to do things, always about working, go figure. I'm retired, but

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my subconscious is not. But I'm
a world class day dreamer. No surprises

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here, lots of free time,
tons of a lone time. It's funny.

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I have little to do, but
not enough time to get it done.

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So many dangerams when you have the
time to just think. I never

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dreamed about success. I was too
busy working for it. I never asked

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for things to be better. I
asked of myself to be better. And

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here I am this week, all
these years later. A blue sky,

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a slight breeze, no plants,
grass, trees, looking up at the

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sky. Why is the sky blow
by the way, I'm dangeraming about life?

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It's perfect. I think I've got
to figure it out. At least

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the things that have caught my attention. I've been dreaming of what could be,

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but only nice things. I've been
thinking about Webb's world more than usual.

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Should I worry that I'm not here
with you all the time. I'm

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as present as I want to be, just being a touch self as living

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in my world versus your world.
I'm here, but I'm not here my

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son's, my family, and a
friend. I have people i'm with.

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Please don't take it personally, but
I gotta tell you, between you and

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me, unless I'm going to benefit
from the chit chat, I prefer Webb's

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world. It's more interesting in my
head. I get to pick the topic.

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So you might ask me, would
I rather ignore you than engage than

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be interesting? You spend the bulk
of your time doing what you want.

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Why can't I spend the bulk of
time doing what I want. I don't

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ignore you necessarily. I always answer
the phone when they call. I always

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am there to handle problems as they
ride. But when people are talking to

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me, generally speaking outside the family, sometimes in the family, I don't

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know. Maybe it's uncomfortable, embarrassing, but I do what I want to

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do, and that's the point daydreaming
is me time. Why do I own

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anyone their time in exchange from me
time, my time? I don't care

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that society. When someone says hello, you're supposed to say hello back.

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It's normal. I get it to
acknowledge them. But now we're discussing normal

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the truth. When someone of substance
and truths, I'm willing to listen,

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I'm there. But often if you
listen to what they said, ninety nine

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percent of the time, I'm sorry. I break away from my daydreaming to

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engage. Now. I either need
more interesting people around me, or I

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have to entertain myself. You see, this is interesting. I'm engaged.

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I may be impossible, but I
think of myself as unique. Some might

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say I'm annoying. I'd say,
perhaps all these people aren't breaking through.

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They're boring. You might say to
me, it's the whole world boring.

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Maybe I knew at some point we
would agree on this. I surrender.

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I surrender here. I know that
my day dreaming is not exactly fair,

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but it's what I want to do. And I've noticed this week that I've

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been in a quiet place. I
haven't been thinking about politics. I haven't

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been thinking about divisiveness in our country. I haven't thought about world piece.

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I'm thinking about stuff that maybe is
more interesting, but certainly to me,

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I'm thinking about stuff that I want
to think about. I saw an article

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the other day which is where I
want to go to begin with. On

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the strike. I need my movies
from Hollywood. I'm worried that for the

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next half a year we're going to
be without it. But that's life.

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There is a strike in Hollywood.
I'm always when you listen to me talk

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about the unions mixed. My father
was in the union, and to a

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great extent, as a working man, the union protected him, and I

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felt it in my family. I
felt that the union was looking out for

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us, so I grew up with
that as a young boy. When I

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went into business, it became a
corporate executive, I didn't have quite the

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same feeling. The unions were protecting
the workers from me, from my guys.

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I didn't understand it, but I
respected it. And what I did

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is I went out of my way
to avoid the conflict. Anytime I could

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shift the responsibility of dealing and managing
the unions, I did. We had

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unions in our warehouse facilities, we
had unions in our offices. We had

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many dealings with the unions, and
I respected the idea because of my background

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growing up that the unions were trying
to do the right things for people.

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So that's where I am on the
union, and there we are. I

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get this article and I read it
and of old people, it's Billy Porter.

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I know him for the guy wearing
dresses to the Hademy Awards and the

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golden gloves and drives me crazy.
I don't care who you are when it

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comes to fashion. I don't want
guys wearing dresses. I don't want them

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wearing shorts. I don't want them
wearing sandals, but certainly dresses. What

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signal is that sending? And it
always bothered me. But bottom line,

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that's how I knew him, and
I found him entertaining. And you know,

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if you can get into that look, he is, as I said,

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entertaining. But he's in this article
talking about the strike and he said

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I had to sell my home.
I was taken aback. There's a lot

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of lessons here. On one hand, every time you see someone in Hollywood

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you think this super rich. The
truth be known if you listen to what's

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going on with the union and the
problems, and to strike behind the office,

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behind the a list is behind those
people that we all know and admire

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and know how wealthy, they aren't
successful. There's a lot of working people

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who don't have that kind of success. The other side of the story is

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he has to sell his home.
Who are you out there? You should

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know what you can afford now.
He made the point that a number of

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projects he expected to be paid for
were canceled, number of projects are delayed,

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and now he's in trouble. He
has to sell his home. Is

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that the way you want to live
your life, you should know what you

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could afford. You don't buy a
home unless you can afford it. You

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don't take a mortgage unless you can
afford it. You don't buy things you

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can't afford. You have to have
a budget. You have to know what

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you need to know. My entire
life, I lived in a small home.

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It was only when I thought about
retiring bought a bigger home. I

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was counted to everything in the world. Now, could I have afforded a

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bigger home when I was younger,
Yes, but I didn't want that burden

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on me. Did it make any
sense? No? But I will tell

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you there are things that you need
to consider in life. If you're planning

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your future. If you're can invest
in stock, you better be able to

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afford to lose it. If you're
going to take business risks, you better

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be afford to lose it. If
you're going to gamble, sorry gambling industry.

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If you're a moron and you're gonna
gamble your hard earned money, you

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better not gamble away anything more than
you can afford. If you're going to

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buy things, do not buy them
on credit cards. Credit cards are for

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junkies. That's what it is.
You pay the highest possible interest rate in

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the world. I don't know how
they get away with it, but they

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do. That's why every day you
get mail asking you to join this credit

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card or take that acrud because yes, they want the banking fees for doing

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the transactions for you, but the
money they make and charging interests that people

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don't pay their bills off the way
is crazy. As you surious. It's

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like a loan shock legal loan shocking
twenty percent interest. That's why they encourage

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you pay only what you have to
pay, because they'll keep you on the

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deck the whole time. Look,
I'm going to get the gambling industry against

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me the banking industry. But listen, this guy personality in Hollywood had to

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sell his home because he didn't plan
properly. Now, as far as the

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union is concerned, and as far
as this strike is concerned, both parties

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are right. That's why there needs
to be a negotiation. When you consider

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got the movies almost disappeared during COVID, When you consider now that so many

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people are not going to the movies, it takes an extraordinary blockbuster Mario Brothers,

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Barbie Oppenheimer, Mission Impossible, Maverick, a handful of movies that made

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billions of dollars. But the rest
of the movies, no one is going.

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So Hollywood has not recovered. And
the executives managing these filmmakers, the

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executive managing the movie theaters, the
executives managing all of these businesses are struggling

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to try and get back on point. Their businesses are in jeopardy and the

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idea of paying more wages or renegotiating
contracts has got to be a massive problem

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for them. They need to survive, and this is not the right time,

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I would think from their point of
view. But on the other hand,

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on the other side, the world
is changing. Movies now are streaming

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more and more. Movies are making
the effort to make believe they're going to

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be in theaters for a little week
or so and then put them right to

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TV for streaming networks. TV shows
are being built just for streaming networks,

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and all the people behind the scenes
doing the work that is now turning out

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to be streaming, not cable TV, not even national TV. It's now

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on these streaming services. Their contracts
do not provide for those efforts. Throw

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an artificial intelligence and the question of
intellectual property rights. Do you own your

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name? Do you own your face? Do you own your likeness? Do

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you own? Do you own?
Do you own? This is all part

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of intellectual property rights, and artificial
intelligence is threatening the very future of these

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people owning their rights, even having
a say of what's done with their image.

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If you're Brad Pitt or George Clooney
or Margot Robbie or you pick them,

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and you're in a movie, now
someone could take your face and the

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things you said and put it all
over the internet with not paying you for

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your efforts. You deserve to be
paid and all those writers and all those

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workers behind the scenes doing work that
have contracts that applied to movies or to

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television are now under threat of not
getting paid for the way in which the

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industry is going. Both parties have
something to say. It would be my

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guests not knowing what I don't know
that this is a timing issue, not

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an issue of what's right and wrong. All I know is I want my

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movies. I want my MTV.
As the song says, I want them.

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I want them to make peace.
But there has to be a negotiation,

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and in most negotiations, both parties
have to be satisfied. In every

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negotiation they do. There's never one
side right or wrong, particularly when it

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comes to the unions, who are
looking out for their workers. I want

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this settled. And of all things, tonight, when I've been daydreaming,

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I've been daydreaming about the movies.
I just saw the movies. I Will

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see Oppenheimer, which I thought was
an amazing movie that I didn't enjoy,

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Mission Impossible that left me hanging for
the next episode, and Barbie I'm just

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not going to see give me a
break. But I am concerned with where

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the industry's going and I've been daydreaming, thinking about what's going to be,

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but that is a backdrop. Tonight
show is what a night for a daydream.

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I'll be back in a minute.
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brand has always been Izod. My
company at one time bought that brand the

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CEO of the company handed it to
me and said, you better make it

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work. And I put everything in
my career to make Eyesod work and I

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fell in love with that brand and
to this stay it is one of the

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most exciting endeavors I've ever got involved
with. ISOD is an incredibly strong golf

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brand. If you play golf,
if you play tennis for that matter.

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They make a great polo shirts.
I mean great. They're fit perfect.

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The material is unique because it's a
p K fabric that waffle weave you see,

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and it's made of a blend of
cotton and microfiber that allows you to

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stretch. And very often they are
treated with solar protection as well, so

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they stretch, they're comfortable, and
they breathe well. And one thing about

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isa they always fit. They'll never
tug on you. You put it in

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your waist, They'll fit you great. The colors, patterns are sensational.

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Now I will also tell ISAOD makes
great shorts and great golf pants. You're

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a golfer and you want to look
good. You don't want to have to

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think about how do I look.
You want to think about how you play,

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not how you feel. ISOD is
the brand for you. I know

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I was there when it was created. The strategy behind that brand is brilliant.

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It's one of my favorite brands.
While I talk about I should tell

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you about the men's sports where ISOD
wasn't enough being a golf brand. It

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wasn't enough being just great polo shirts
with logos, without logos, incredible brands

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in story and history. ISAD makes
salt weather programs. They have great printed

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woven shirts, short sleeves that look
excellent with colors, excellent with shorts,

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excellent with cotton pants, of which
they also make this whole salt order relaxed

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line from Isaod, whether it be
felice, cotton sweaters, nit polos,

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woven shirts and pants of a range
of colors and fabrics that are perfect for

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a guy wants to go casually in
the spring and summer of this year.

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And here's the thing, ISOD is
affordable. Everyone listening to me talk about

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this brand can afford to buy it
and know that there are a lot of

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other brands that also have a look
like Eyesod. Although I don't believe it's

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fun as Eyesod is. The brand
has a lot of energy in it,

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but at the price points, no
one can compete. You can find eyes

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That at your leading retails and online
at eisod dot com. Talk to you

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later, guys. I wish you
are very happy spring and summer, and

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I help you by telling you if
you wear EYESOD, you're gonna look great.

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Welcome back to Always in Fashion.
Here's your host, Mark Webber.

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I've had plenty of time, and
that time has led me to daydreaming.

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I have good feelings about daydreaming.
It reminds me when I was a little

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boy, no cares in the world. All I had to do is think

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about nothing what I want to do
next. Kind of liked it. I

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love the simpleness of it. I
love the feeling of no cares in the

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world. And that's how I lived
this week. In fact, tonight's show

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is old What a night for a
daydream. I'm talking about the things that

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cross my mind. They got me
thinking during the week. No bad stuff,

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no wars, no peace discussions,
no disease, no divisiveness in this

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country, no ugly stuff. For
me. It's only nice, all them

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sweet things, things that I noticed
or things that got me thinking. Let's

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call this for the moment. Couples
therapy I remember so clearly the first time

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I had a company function, the
first time I had a chance to go

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to function with my wife. Company
had a company dinner and my wife and

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I got to dress up. My
wife was a beauty. I have to

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say, I think I'm a decent
looking guy. Some might say I'm a

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good looking guy, but my wife. When my son's friend used to meet

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my wife, they used to say, what's she doing with me? I

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loved it. My wife was a
stunner, elegant, simple, broody,

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more like Grace Kelly than I don't
know. She just had the right look

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and I was always so proud to
be with her. And here we show

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up the first night. We were
shocked at how different people looked. Very

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clearly. When they say love is
blind, it's true. Love is blind.

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I remember saying to do you realize
that if we lined up twenty of

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the men and twenty of the women
and decided we would pair them who we

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thought were husbands and wives, we
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it was a funny phenomenon. It
got me thinking. And this week I

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had a number of circumstances just so
happened that a group of us, my

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family ended up in Long Island at
a restaurant called Cippollini, great Italian restaurant,

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beautiful indoor setting, but it's outdoor
where the money is, and it's

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really difficult to get outdoors. So
my sons went there before me in and

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behold, by the time I got
there ten minutes later, they were a

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perfectly centered table outside and it was
great. What a place to be observed,

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but more importantly to abserve. And
I watched and I looked, and

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I thought about how this luxury center
draws people that understand fashion or don't.

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And I got particularly interested in the
couple's therapy when I saw the couples come.

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And it never ceases to amaze me
that if it wasn't for bad taste,

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some people would have no taste at
all at this restaurant. The women,

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particularly the ones who wanted to eat
outside with their husbands or dates,

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are significant others, whatever the case
may be. We're all dressed as best

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as they knew how luxury clothes,
the it handbags, the right shoes.

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You could see it. And the
guys were horrible. Now, I will

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say, if you take one in
ten of the couples, the guy would

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look okay. He'd be wearing the
right pants, the right shoes, with

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the socks. I'll forgive him.
You know, when you're wearing long pants

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and you're wearing those socks and you're
not wearing a suit or a tuxedo,

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I forgive you, it can look
good. One in ten of the guys

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looked like they belonged with their wives. They looked like they were going to

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the same place. The balance of
the guys were showing up and shorts and

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sandals, and even a guy with
the tank top showed up. How he

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got to get seated outside is beyond
me. Maybe because his wife was fantastic

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and she was worth looking at.
But the mismatch reminds me Jesse. I

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went to visit him once in college. I surprised him. I got there

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on a Friday night and they were
all at the neighborhood hangout. And as

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I'm walking towards it, I see
all the girls. My head was spinning.

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Now, I'm not supposed to look
at college girls. I'm not looking

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at them from a dating perspective.
I'm married. I'm looking at him.

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I'm watching it, all the tight
dresses. I can't believe what I'm looking

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at how these college girls got it
together to go out night, and all

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the guys are wearing school sweatshirts and
sweatpants. Such a mismatch. And here

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I am, all these years later, and I'm watching this at Chippollini and

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Long Island Great restaurant, and it
really bothered me. The one thing that

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bothered me about the women, or
some of them, there were women that

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stuffed themselves in the tightest dresses.
I could forgive that almost except for the

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fact that there was so much cleavage. I was embarrassed to look at them

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and their shoes and the heels were
ten feet tall, and all the jewelry

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and the handbugs. They were doing
everything. I applaud people who want to

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look their best, but at the
same time, you gotta know what you're

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doing. Come on, ladies,
look in the mirror. I can't believe

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what I was looking at, how
overdone women could be. Now what criteria

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do I bring to this table to
even have this comment? Well, One,

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I'm human, Two, I have
good taste. Three I work for

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two of the largest companies in the
world, the last Louis Vuitton, moo

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Ena Hennessey. I ran the Donna
Karan Company, the dec and Y Company.

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I get it. I've written two
books on fashion. You know,

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usually I give a woman a pass
because by and large you care more about

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fashion, You understand that, you
interpret it well, You're great at what

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you do. I applaud anyone who
realizes that perhaps by making yourself look as

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best as you can, you're putting
the best front you can in life and

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giving yourself the best chance of happiness
and enjoying and feeling comfortable with who you

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are. I believe we have an
obligation to package ourselves. I just want

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to call out, you can't do
everything, ladies. You have to pick

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your spots. You'll look over the
top. That was my observation on fashioned

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daydreaming this week while I was having
dinner. But corporate fashion has something to

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say this week. I want to
talk to you about corporate America and the

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fashion business in particularly because I think
there was an interesting phenomenon this week.

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Would you believe the Tapestry bought Capris
Holdings? Now hold that thought because none

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of you know what Tapestry is and
none of you know what Capri Holdings are.

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There is an issue with companies today
that things have changed. When Bloomingdale's

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was established, there was a guy
named Bloomingdale's. When Macy's was established,

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there was a guy named R.
H. Macy's. But over time,

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companies acquired each other. And I
don't know whether you know it or not,

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but Bloomingdale's is owned by Macy's.
But at one time they owned multiple

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brands. They owned Birdines in Florida, they owned Last Rifts in Kansas City.

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I don't know, they own the
whole chain of stores. So they

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had a different name. The name
was Federated Department Stores. They consolidated all

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these department stores under one name called
Federated because would it be appropriate to call

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the place Macy's if you have all
those other stores, even though Macy's was

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the biggest. No. And to
this day, Macy's has Bloomingdale's under earth.

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But they've learned their lesson. And
why is it important? Because all

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these companies are public companies and they
trade on Wall Street, and you want

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to name that. Stockholders, stock
purchasers, people who want to buy stock

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will recognize there's a difference between Federated
Department Stores and Macy's. One you know,

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one you don't, which brings me
back to Tapestry and Capri Holdings,

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but I'm not going to tell you
yet who they are. When I was

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at PVH, which is the company
as it's known today, PVH, which

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means nothing was known at Phillips van
Usen that many people thought Phillips was the

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name they recognized. There a number
of companies called Phillips van then Newson was

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one of the world's most famous shirt
companies. When the company was established,

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it was a mono brand company.
All they owned was van Using shirts,

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and it was appropriate that the company
be named Phillips, which is a founding

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family, and purchased the name van
Usen, so Phillips van User was highly

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recognizable. But as time went on, the company bought other brands Isaza,

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Jeffrey Bean, Tommy Hill, Figure
Calvin Klein, and the CEO at the

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time I was the president wanted to
change the name of the company from Phillips

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van Us into Calvin Klein, with
the idea that if your name of the

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company was Calvin Klein, everybody would
know you. And if you're on Wall

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Street and your ticket tape is there, whether it's c KO Calvin Klein.

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If shareholders wanted to buy companies and
they want to invest in your company,

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they would recognize Calvin Klein, they
wouldn't necessarily recognize that Phillips van Usen owned

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a number of these brands as a
consolidator of brands, and there was a

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great deal of talk, but we
felt we had too much equity at the

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time in Phillips venues and the decision
wasn't made. After I left, the

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dialogue went on and they eventually changed
the name of the company to PVH.

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I don't know if that's a good
thing or a bad thing. My second

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job, of consequence was the LVMH
L for Louis v Fa Viton, M

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for Moette H Fantasy, Louis Vaton, Moett Hennessey. But when they started

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to acquire other companies, somehow or
another, it became LVMH Louis Vuitton Moet

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Hennessey. I guess they liked the
ring of it, and I don't know.

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Maybe those were the two biggest businesses
at the time. But today the

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company owns sixty three different brands at
my last count, so you can't call

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them by all those different brands.
But back to Tapestry and Capri Holdings,

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Tapestry is Coach, but Coach owns
a number of other brands as well,

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and somewhere along the line, under
the same principle that they wanted to be

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recognized as a consolid dater of brands, they named themselves. Tapestry means absolutely

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nothing, but the idea is you're
supposed to recognize these initials, these names,

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so you'll buy this stock. They
bought Capri Holdings. Capri Holdings is

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Michael Kors, but Michael Cores purchased
Jimmy Chow as well as another brand or

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two, and they became Capri Holdings. And why am I telling the story?

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You know, I was daydreaming.
Only a few years ago. Michael

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Core's as a company did something that
maybe no one else has ever done.

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They took this tiny company, basically
speaking Michael Kors, which is a designer

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ready to wear company, very expensive
clothes, and americanized it and they made

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it available to the world. They
made it affordable. They began with incredible

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handbags and transferred it into shoes and
ready to wear and clothes and sunglasses.

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They did something that very few companies
have ever done on such a grand scale.

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I remember being in China sitting with
the people of LVMH and one of

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their brilliant marketing guys, one of
the brilliant people based in China, and

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we were talking about can DC and
why be the next Michael Course And he

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leaned over and he said, Michael
Course is a miracle, isn't it?

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And I hadn't thought it that way, but it was a miracle. Seventeen

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million dollar company became four billion.
The management at the time who had purchased

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the company had a view. They
had Michael onboard. They hired the right

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people, They designed the right products, they put them at the right prices,

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they saw them in the right factories, They gave the right quality,

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they provided the imagery. They provided
a company that looked like luxury, but

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at affordable prices. There's no such
thing as affordable luxury. It either is

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luxury or is not. But they
took a luxury approach to fashion, great

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quality, great name, great looks, great design, and made it affordable.

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And they created this miracle. And
everyone in this industry was now chasing

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the Michael Core's miracle. And you
can't do it. You can't do it.

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Miracles don't happen every day. I've
said it to you before. When

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you join LVMH, you are indoctrinated
into this incredible luxury company that does everything

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right. They don't make short term
decisions. They don't make decisions for money.

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They make decisions that are strategic.
They will stay with something, They'll

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back anything if they believe there's a
strategic advantage, and if it takes two

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years or twenty years, they're in. If they believe in what you do,

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and they believe in a brand,
and they're remarkable that way. But

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the first thing they tell you,
don't think you could be Viton. There's

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only one Vton, and at this
time there's only one Michael Coors and now

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Tapestry, the owner of Coach bought
this week Capri Holdings, which was the

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owner of Michael Kors. Michael Coors
over the last few years has been downtrending.

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Michael Kors is no longer a miracle. Michael Coors is still a great

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business, but it isn't what it
was, which brings you to the problem

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of initials companies and whether companies can
grow. The minute a company stops growing,

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they're under attack from the stockbrokers,
from the shareholders, from competitors.

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00:31:48.079 --> 00:31:53.720
Everyone is nibbling or gnawing at their
business. And the problem with a company

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00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:59.599
like Michael Coors, it grew too
big, it couldn't sustain that growth.

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They acquired Jimmy Choo, they acquired
stuff to try and keep the momentum going.

419
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It didn't happen. And that miracle
in Michael Kors, those initials,

420
00:32:10.119 --> 00:32:15.880
those Wall Street things, we're on
my mind this week. So as we

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go forward, we're going to see
a new consolidated company. I don't know

422
00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:22.200
what they're gonna call Capestry. I
don't know if they're going to change their

423
00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:24.119
name again, because now it's not
just Coach, but it's Coach, Michael

424
00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:28.720
Cores, etc. I don't know
whether they'll have new initials or what have

425
00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:32.440
you. I do know that they
said that they did this to take on

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the European giants karag LVMH. I'm
afraid no one's taking them on. So

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I've been day dreaming. I've been
thinking about these things, and at the

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moment I've shared with you some insight, behind the scenes, behind the curtain

429
00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:53.680
stuff on the fashion world. Now
I can daydream again back in a minute.

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Always in fashion been a lifetime of
my career, building the van Usen

431
00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:05.960
brand, and I am so pleased
that they're back with us now talking about

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00:33:06.279 --> 00:33:10.079
suits. Men, We're dressing up
again and it's become cool to wear a

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00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:15.640
suit. Suits can be won on
multiple occasions in multiple ways. You can

434
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wear a suit formally to go out
at night or to an event, to

435
00:33:19.119 --> 00:33:22.319
wear a suit to the office with
or without a tie. If you look

436
00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:25.720
closely, now fashion trends, suits
are being worn with turtlenecks or mocknecks.

437
00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:32.079
The choices are endless, and every
one of them looks right. You could

438
00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:37.039
really really look the part. I
believe that packaging yourself this is important,

439
00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:40.680
does the products you package and wearing
a suit is one of those things that

440
00:33:40.839 --> 00:33:46.000
make men look their best. Venusin
invented a new idea. It's called the

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00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:52.359
cool flex suit. It's been engineered
with stretched technology, giving you the most

442
00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:57.319
comfortable fit and mobility. It's wrinkle
resistant fabric, it's cool moisture wicking.

443
00:33:57.680 --> 00:34:00.759
It makes it perfect for all occasions. As we discussed just now, this

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new style of looking shop while feeling
cool and comfortable is amazing, and I'm

445
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:12.760
so excited that the van Using company
is involved in this new technology and is

446
00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:16.519
embracing the whole idea of dressing up. Let's not forget van Usen made its

447
00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:22.599
name with dress shirts. It's only
proper that the suit business follows strongly in

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00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:27.000
its way. You can find van
using cool flex men's stretch suits at jac

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00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:30.920
penny are online at j C penney
dot com. Guys, they're great.

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00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:36.480
You should go look at them.
Welcome back to Always in Fashion. Here's

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your host, Mark Webber. I've
been daydreaming. I love the innocence of

452
00:34:42.679 --> 00:34:45.920
daydreaming. I love the idea it's
my time. I believe in me time.

453
00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:52.320
When you think about all the time
you spend on others, for others,

454
00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:55.719
and when you ask yourself, what
do you really do for you?

455
00:34:58.039 --> 00:35:00.920
I mean, I have a lot
of time to do things. I'm happy

456
00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:06.880
about that, but you know I'm
writing checks, mailing bills, doing laundries,

457
00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:10.000
doing errands, doing all the things
you have to do to get through

458
00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:15.599
the day. But what do you
really do for yourself? I think about

459
00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:19.159
all the time I spend for my
children, helping them, friends, when

460
00:35:19.159 --> 00:35:22.440
you have them, asking your favors, things you do for people, things

461
00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:23.920
you must do, have to do, should do. How much is me

462
00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:30.519
time? Well? I have my
daydreaming. I have this quiet alone time

463
00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:35.360
where I get a chance to think
and dream and think about what could have

464
00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:39.719
and should have. I love the
idea when I have nothing on my mind.

465
00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:44.719
I'd like to be one of those
cartoon characters where you see in the

466
00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:47.760
comic books above their head a little
cloud and what they're thinking. And I

467
00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:53.280
love when the cloud above my head
is empty. I love it. There's

468
00:35:53.320 --> 00:36:01.480
something so calming about that. And
I'm trying to what's going on in the

469
00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:07.599
world. And I refuse this week
to engage I did last week. I

470
00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:10.400
let it drove me crazy. I
let it mess up my psyche. I

471
00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:14.199
let it get it to me like
it gets to so many other people.

472
00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:17.239
But that's for another day. Yes, I didn't want anything to upset.

473
00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:22.400
When I'm thinking and I'm enjoying my
time away from the world, I could

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00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:27.920
daydream anywhere. I could also fall
asleep anywhere. The problem with sleeping for

475
00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:30.119
me is when I sleep, I
think about work and I don't work.

476
00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:35.719
I don't get it. I'm retired. My subconscious is still working all these

477
00:36:35.760 --> 00:36:37.800
ideas and thoughts and how to improve
this, and how to help this one

478
00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:42.199
and that and build this Brandon that
that's then when I'm sleeping, I want

479
00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:45.039
to sleep and dream about this stuff. But the daytime dreaming right in the

480
00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:52.320
middle of everything. I could do
it anywhere. But something broke through this

481
00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:58.960
week and really really upset me.
And it's Apple stock. I don't like

482
00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:04.760
thinking about money, I don't like
thinking about investments. I don't like thinking

483
00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:09.039
about stock. If I'm invested in
stock, it's for those things that I

484
00:37:09.079 --> 00:37:14.360
think are no brainers, no risks
over time will be amazing. And I

485
00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:16.599
have to say I have very few
investments in stock, but the ones I

486
00:37:16.679 --> 00:37:22.719
do are pretty much that. But
this week Apple took a huge hit.

487
00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:27.760
I think it was as much as
twenty percent of their value one away billions

488
00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:32.639
of dollars. There were three trillion
dollar company they no longer are and why

489
00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:39.679
because they missed either second or third
quarter projection. And here's what bothers me

490
00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:45.960
about this. There's no other company
like Apple. There's Samsung, and there's

491
00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:50.360
this guy, and there's Google and
there's this. But when it comes to

492
00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:58.760
technology and products, there's Apple and
no one else. Apple dominates over Samsung.

493
00:37:59.039 --> 00:38:02.480
You can't can compare the numbers.
Those of you who own samsunk phones

494
00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:07.719
and Android and all of this nonsense
versus Apple. I don't get it.

495
00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:12.599
They've changed our lives. It's unbelievable
company. And because they miss a quarter,

496
00:38:12.679 --> 00:38:15.719
they didn't sell as many cell phones
as they thought they would sell,

497
00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:19.079
knowing of course, that there's a
new cell phone coming out in September.

498
00:38:19.079 --> 00:38:21.760
Who would buy a new phone right
now if you don't have to. I

499
00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:24.599
don't get it. But they lost
their numbers, and it really really bothered

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00:38:24.639 --> 00:38:31.000
me to see the value of my
Apple stock go down. I've talked about

501
00:38:31.039 --> 00:38:37.599
the fact that I was the CEO
of a public company. When I used

502
00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:40.760
to sit in my corporate seat and
I used to think about my future.

503
00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:47.639
I used to draw a line between
my legs, an imaginary line, and

504
00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:50.719
I would say, where am I
going to my future? And I would

505
00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:52.599
draw this imaginary line, and on
my left leg, I'd say, this

506
00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:57.719
leg is getting promoted, and on
my right leg, this one's getting fired.

507
00:38:57.840 --> 00:39:00.599
And I never knew what would really
happen. Really to this day,

508
00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:04.280
never knew what would happen. I
don't know if I'll be on the radio

509
00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:06.760
for next ten days and the next
ten years. It's not up to me.

510
00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:08.800
And this case is up to you. It's up to the sponsors that

511
00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:12.840
they love me, they like me. To the people listening. It's almost

512
00:39:12.840 --> 00:39:15.920
as if I have no control.
I could do great shows, I could

513
00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:19.400
be bad shows. I like to
believe that I'm doing the body of work

514
00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:22.119
is terrific. Everyone I run into, who's listener? I asked to become

515
00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:24.960
a listener new list and writes me, talks to me, tells me how

516
00:39:25.159 --> 00:39:30.800
entertained they are. A young woman
said I'm adorable this week. Thank you

517
00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:34.800
to her if she's listening. It
came back to me. But I was

518
00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:39.400
never in control. I was the
CEO of a public company. I knew

519
00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:46.199
everything the company was going to do. I knew every dollar, I knew

520
00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:52.159
every single initiative. I knew when
the company's stock should rise because I knew

521
00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:55.920
my numbers were going up. Now
in this world, and when you're a

522
00:39:55.920 --> 00:39:59.679
public company, you have to share
with the Wall Street, you have to

523
00:39:59.679 --> 00:40:04.679
share with all the investors what's happening
in the company, generally once a month,

524
00:40:04.719 --> 00:40:07.159
if not once a quarter. And
then you sit down and explain to

525
00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:12.760
all the investors, only investment people, all the representatives, here is what

526
00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:16.440
the company is planning for the next
three months, four months, the next

527
00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:20.239
quarter, the next half a year, the next year. Here's where we're

528
00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:25.079
going, and we believe we should
be rewarded for our efforts. Or even

529
00:40:25.159 --> 00:40:28.880
if we have a problem, we
understand that you won't like it, but

530
00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:31.039
here's how we're going to fix it
in where we are. And it's a

531
00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:36.400
good system because you're asking people to
invest in your company, and they should

532
00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:40.199
be getting honest and truthful information so
they can make wise decisions. And so

533
00:40:40.360 --> 00:40:44.400
if they believe in your company,
whether you had a good quarter or a

534
00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:46.760
bed quarter, they understand. Like
Apple just out a bed quarter, I

535
00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:52.559
understand, and the stock went down. So here I am at this big

536
00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:55.039
public company. I'm the CEO.
I know everything's going I never could tell

537
00:40:55.079 --> 00:41:00.480
you whether stock would go up or
whether the stock would go down. In

538
00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:05.400
the entire history of my corporate career, I have never sold a piece of

539
00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:08.320
stock at the highest price. Whether
I was a CEO or an officer of

540
00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:14.599
the company, I never knew.
Because Wall Street evaluates you in different ways.

541
00:41:14.639 --> 00:41:16.639
First of all, you have a
plan, and your plan has to

542
00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:22.760
be aggressive enough to merit the stock
going up. If your ownings are going

543
00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:25.239
to go up a few percentage points, you don't get rewarded on Wall Street

544
00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:30.360
to that degree. If you are
a growth company and you grow fifteen twenty

545
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:35.280
percent a year, you're going to
be rewarded. Number two, every company,

546
00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:39.039
every industry is awarded a multiple that
if you're going to earn a billion

547
00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:43.039
dollars, there's a multiple. It
could be five percent, ten percent,

548
00:41:43.079 --> 00:41:45.639
twenty percent. That multiple is applied
to the billion dollars in the amount of

549
00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:50.519
shares you have outstanding, and it
puts the value on the stock. And

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00:41:50.679 --> 00:41:54.599
number three, when you tell the
street that you're going to do something,

551
00:41:55.159 --> 00:42:00.559
they have to believe you. And
then the street evaluates the individual who's talking

552
00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:06.280
to the individual steam and three their
track record. Have they delivered what they

553
00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:09.519
said or have they not? So
the combination of your earnings, the combination

554
00:42:09.599 --> 00:42:14.119
of your industry, and the multiple, and the compliment of whether or not

555
00:42:14.679 --> 00:42:20.719
they believe in the management is what
affords you the stock price that you will

556
00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:23.599
receive, that you're rewarded. And
even as the CEO of a pump the

557
00:42:23.639 --> 00:42:30.599
company, you never know which takes
me to my four stockbrokers, what are

558
00:42:30.639 --> 00:42:35.800
they for? They certainly have more
information than you'll ever have. They get

559
00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:38.400
all the readings from all the analysts
and their company, telling them the companies

560
00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:42.920
they reviewed, what they think will
happen with the companies they dissected. They

561
00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:47.679
have all this information. The fascinating
thing is, I know, as the

562
00:42:47.800 --> 00:42:51.599
CEO of I didn't know what's going
to happen to my company. How could

563
00:42:51.639 --> 00:42:57.199
they possibly know? So of my
four stockbrokers, of which all of them

564
00:42:57.199 --> 00:43:02.960
I had Apple stock, not one
of them called me to warn me that

565
00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:07.079
the stock might go down. None
of them how to clue. And if

566
00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:10.000
they did, they certainly didn't call
me. Maybe they called their more important

567
00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:16.079
customers, but they didn't go all
me. Of my four stockbrokers, not

568
00:43:16.239 --> 00:43:21.039
one of them has called me to
advise me what to do now. Is

569
00:43:21.079 --> 00:43:24.039
this the time to sell? Is
this the time to buy more? Is

570
00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:29.719
this the time to worry? Is
it not the time? Not one each

571
00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:35.400
trade I've never tried them, but
I'll never forget. They are billboards on

572
00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:38.519
all the buses in New York City
when they came out. If your stockbroker

573
00:43:38.639 --> 00:43:43.960
was so smart, how come he's
still working? Isn't that an interesting question?

574
00:43:45.039 --> 00:43:49.400
So here I am invested in the
greatest company in the world. In

575
00:43:49.480 --> 00:43:52.559
my opinion, they just had a
blip this quarter and didn't do what they

576
00:43:52.599 --> 00:43:55.239
were going to do. They didn't
do what they said. The stock is

577
00:43:55.360 --> 00:44:00.559
thanked, and here I am daydreaming
about happy things and now have to worry

578
00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:07.360
whether my money is safe and not
a single person involved with me has given

579
00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:12.960
me any advice to this regard.
Now I know why my stockbrokers are still

580
00:44:13.239 --> 00:44:22.400
working. Yeah, I was daydreaming. This interfered with my reverie. I

581
00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:25.440
guess the greatest thing to say to
you about stock is you only lose money

582
00:44:25.480 --> 00:44:30.679
in stock when you sell it when
it's down. Think about that. You

583
00:44:30.760 --> 00:44:34.800
can't lose it while you own it
on paper, it goes up and down,

584
00:44:34.840 --> 00:44:37.039
but when you sell it is when
you lose money. So my advice

585
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:42.239
to you in the world of stock, as I sit here daydreaming about what

586
00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:46.079
my future stock is going to look
like, is one, don't invest what

587
00:44:46.159 --> 00:44:52.280
you can't afford to lose. Two
think about the long time you don't sell

588
00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:57.960
when you don't have to sell.
Hopefully this was helpful, So I want

589
00:44:57.960 --> 00:45:02.480
to daydream a little about your future
investments. Never buy anything you can't afford

590
00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:07.960
to lose. Talk to you in
a minute. Always in fashion, I've

591
00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:12.159
been shopping for fun lately, and
while I'm out, I always look at

592
00:45:12.199 --> 00:45:15.679
men's and I look at women's what's
going on? And I was particularly interested

593
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:21.039
in Decamy because of their sponsorship of
the show. I went downstairs at Macy's

594
00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:24.480
thirty fourth Street to look around and
I saw dekmy active where And I promise

595
00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:29.760
you, ladies, it is sensational, from the sports bras to the crop

596
00:45:29.840 --> 00:45:32.800
tops, to the leggings and the
sweats. It really is a great look.

597
00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:38.960
And Decay had begun as an all
American brand dressing casual clothes engines,

598
00:45:39.039 --> 00:45:44.960
and the stuff looks incredible and right
now the colors and the styles is so

599
00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:47.920
exciting that I feel great about the
company. I always do. I wear

600
00:45:47.960 --> 00:45:52.039
the men's wear all the time.
I've had situations where I've gone to big

601
00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:57.679
events and been interviewed in TV or
radio and someone comes up to me the

602
00:45:57.719 --> 00:46:00.079
microphone and like they always do,
who you're wearing? And here I am,

603
00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:02.519
this big shot with big company and
they say, well, I'm wearing

604
00:46:02.519 --> 00:46:06.639
a DKNY and they laugh and say, no, you're not. Actually have

605
00:46:06.719 --> 00:46:09.119
one on the internet where you could
see me. They asked me what suit

606
00:46:09.159 --> 00:46:12.280
I'm wearing, and I say,
dec and why had opened it up and

607
00:46:12.280 --> 00:46:15.559
there's the DKNY label. Great fashion. It fits well, it looks right.

608
00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:20.840
It's designed to make you comfortable in
the city, goes from day and

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to night. You can wear it
in the morning and wear in the afternoon

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and you look cool at night as
well. It's great for the office.

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It's great, Felicia. But I
was talking about the DKNY activewear. The

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first time I really became aware of
that. Jesse and I were up at

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Sirious Radio. He was doing a
job for Serious. He does Dan Abrams

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show, he fills in on the
Potus Network and we're in the lobby and

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this hip hop group came up.
Well, this really great looking Latino singer

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girl Young beautiful, and she was
wearing a dk and Y sports bra,

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and I said to myself, this
is amazing. Actually went to Macy's to

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see it, and I'm excited about
the brand. And I'll tell you what,

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ladies, dk Y always says great
fashion for work, always wonderful dresses

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and things that you'd wear. Their
accessories are great, the shoes are always

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very cool. But activewear in particular
right now looks sensational and being that everyone's

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athleisure in activewear, it's a great
time dkm Y go take a look.

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As one of the world's most celebrated
fashion designers, car Lagafeld was renowned for

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his aspirational and cutting edge approach to
style. His unique vision of Parisian ship

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comes to America through car Lagafeld Paris. He has women's collections, men's collections,

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ready to wear, accessory, shoes
and bags. The fashion house car

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Lagafeld also offers a range of watches
iwear in premium fragrances. You can explore

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the car Lagafel collection at Carlagofeld powis
dot com. But it's more than that.

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If for one love to shop,
I love going around and seeing what's

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happening and what catches my attention,
what would make me feel good to wear

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Now. I don't wear the women's
wear obviously, but I can appreciate it

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and may look amazing. If you
want to look right, you want to

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have clothes that fit you well.
You want to look like you're wearing something

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that's very expensive, that's exclusive for
you and yours. You can find it

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at very affordable prices at Macy's or
Carlgafel dot com Paris. The women's ready

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to wear fashion is extraordinary, as
well as the hand egs and the shoes.

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I for one, wear men's clothes
and onlike my appreciation of women's clothes.

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I'm a modern guy. I want
to look current, I want to

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look the way I want to feel. I go out at night, I'm

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in black and Carl Igafelt is my
buddy. Calls are great, they fit

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great, and they have little tweaks
and touches, whether it's a stripe on

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the sleeve or button at the neck
or on the shoulder. There's a lot

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of details that go into Carl Agafelt
because he's always been, he always had

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been one of the world's great designers, and this legacy and goes on and

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on. I can't speak enough about
it except to say to you, you

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want to feel good about yourself.
You want to know that you're dressing properly.

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You want clothes that fits you well. Carl Lagafeld Paris at Macy's or

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Carlo com. Welcome back to Always
in Fashion. Here's your host, Mark

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Webber. This is one of those
times that are for me. I'm bringing

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you along for the ride. If
you think about it, there's a number

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of very important lessons since tonight's show, perhaps nothing more important than me time.

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When you consider all the time you
spend doing things for others, not

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necessary things that you choose to do, whether it's work, errands, making

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life easier for your friends and families, what do you really do for you?

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Whenever I would interview people on the
show before COVID, when I did

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interviews, I would ask someone at
one given time, what are you doing

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me time? And they would say, well, I would take my children

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here. I really enjoy that.
That's not for you. Your time is

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your time. My metime today is
spent more than anything within my own mind.

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I have a lot out of time
to do what I want to do,

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and I think, and I enjoy
thinking, and I enjoy my time.

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The only time I'm really thinking work
when I'm awake is when I'm thinking

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about what I want to talk about
on the show. And more times than

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not, it just comes to me
out of the blue. I started to

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think this week about what makes me
happy. Happened to be lying down out

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back looking up at the sun.
Sky was blue, no clouds, birds

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singing, nothing on my mind only
pleasant, happy things, and lo and

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behold it became this week's show,
What a Night for a Daydream? Take

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time for yourself, always, take
time to read, to think, to

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consider options. There are a lot
of people in this world who have good

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things to say. There are a
lot of people who talk fake news and

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nonsense. This was a week that
all I wanted to do is think happy

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things, and I was until the
stock market got in the way. But

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nonetheless, maybe some good will come
out of it for you when you think

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about what I've said Tonight, if
nothing else, dream a little dream for

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me. Good Night,