WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 This show is produced and hosted by Mark Webber. The 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.360 show is sponsored by G three Aparo. The views expressed 3 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:08.839 in the following program are those of the sponsor and 4 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:15.160 not necessarily the opinion of seven tenor or iHeartMedia. Who 5 00:00:15.279 --> 00:00:18.760 is Mark Weber. He's a self made business executive here 6 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:21.440 to help you find your success from the New York 7 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:25.359 City projects to the Avenue Montaigne in Paris. His global 8 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:29.280 success story in the luxury world of fashion is inspirational. 9 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:34.240 He's gone from clerk to CEO twice. Mark is classic 10 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:38.200 proof that the American dream is alive. And well, here's 11 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:41.359 your host of Always in Fashion, Mark Weber. 12 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:42.079 Mark Weber. 13 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:46.600 The Olympics got me thinking about perfection. I find myself 14 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:49.920 the affable side of me, the friendly side, the side 15 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:52.000 of me that wants to make someone feel good about 16 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:54.679 what they said or offered, what they've done, or what 17 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:59.159 they accomplished. Saying the simple word perfect I've gon accustomed 18 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:02.759 to the word it's perfect has become a comfortable statement 19 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:06.959 from Mark Webber. It's nice, it's clear, it's descriptive, not 20 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:11.519 open for misinterpretation or confrontational for that matter. It's a 21 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:15.359 perfect word for me, recognizing of course that I'm an 22 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:19.200 acquired taste. I want my dialogs with humans to be direct, 23 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.799 short and sweet. But I've noticed I've been saying perfect 24 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:25.879 a lot, and I've been thinking what is truly perfect? 25 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:30.760 Opinions vary. One man's peacock is another man's feather duster. 26 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:34.200 Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. What is 27 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:37.200 or is not success the success getting what you want, 28 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:41.840 while happiness is wanting what you get. All these musings 29 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:45.200 choices different for all of us. I've decided I'm not 30 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:49.560 looking for perfect, just what is perfect for me. I've 31 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:51.879 always looked for perfect and never found it. What I 32 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:55.040 thought was perfect could always be improved upon. How can 33 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:57.879 you be happy never getting what you strive for? The 34 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:00.159 answer I found and am going to share with you. 35 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:04.280 I've changed. I'm not looking for perfect, just what's perfect 36 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:07.040 for me. I'll give you an example. When I started 37 00:02:07.079 --> 00:02:10.439 to play golf, I was mesmerized. I was addicted. I 38 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:14.840 wanted to be amazingly great. After all this time struggling 39 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:19.240 for perfection, it never happened. I'm athletic, great, hand in 40 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:22.639 eye coordination. I put in the time, I put in 41 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:25.800 the training. The best I've been on rare occasion was 42 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:29.400 to make perfect contact with the ball with the perfect result. 43 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:33.639 Once shot out of thousands, I could get frustrated. I 44 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:36.520 went to the technological Library of the Internet. I found 45 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:39.280 a book, Golf Is Not a Game of perfect by 46 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:42.680 well known sports psychologist Barbara Tella. What did I learn? 47 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:48.280 You'll never approach perfection. But when you're playing great, that's 48 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:50.479 when you see how great you can be in spite 49 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:53.479 of all the difficulties you have. When you're having those 50 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:56.199 moments of greatness, you can build on them and you 51 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:59.919 can be that good. I've never found it in fashion. 52 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:02.199 I got another one for you. I have won denim 53 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:05.000 jacket since I was in college. I still have the 54 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:07.719 first one I bought in the Gap in nineteen eighty two. 55 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:11.680 It was perfect then, but fashion changes. I thought I'd 56 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:13.919 love it for life. I have it for life, but 57 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:17.120 I don't love it. It was oversized the style at 58 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:19.560 the time, and it's still beautiful to wash to finish 59 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:23.360 the detailings. But it's just not current. Fashion's not like 60 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:27.039 fine wine. It doesn't improve with age. In truth, I 61 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:31.120 have twelve denim jackets that are current. Each was purchased 62 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:33.800 with the idea that it was perfect. I would never 63 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:37.680 need another one. This is for life. The latest denim 64 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:41.159 jacket is polo. I'm ready search of perfection. I'm tired 65 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:44.719 of it, I've lost I must find it. I'm driven. 66 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:48.599 If your wife or husband the most important decision of 67 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:52.080 your life, shouldn't you be striving for the most perfect partner, 68 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:55.639 Not perfect, but perfect for you. And yet the scary 69 00:03:56.120 --> 00:04:00.400 fact is the divorce rate is over fifty percent perfection. 70 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:03.199 I never thought about it until I went to Japan 71 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:06.039 in the early days of my career. For a ten 72 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:08.639 year period, I went to Japan between two and four 73 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:12.919 times a year, depending upon global market conditions. More than 74 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:16.319 anywhere else than home. I was in Japan the moment 75 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:20.399 I arrived. The cleanliness, the respect, the intention to detail. 76 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:22.639 I saw it at the airport. I saw it on 77 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:25.240 the taxis, the people on the street, the drivers of 78 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:30.439 the taxis. Everything was appeccably clean and organized. The samurai 79 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:34.720 wai seeking perfection. My first day breakfast in the Royal 80 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:38.879 Hotel in Osaka, overlooking the garden, the sand that was 81 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:42.720 raked to perfection, the banjai trees that were cut to perfection, 82 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:46.319 the water flutes moving with the sound of the water, 83 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:51.319 the tending of the garden. Perfection, The Last Samurai one 84 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:53.680 of my favorite movies of all time. One of the 85 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:55.800 closing scenes, let me pay a kip for you. 86 00:04:56.360 --> 00:04:56.839 Perfect. 87 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:16.879 Yeah, Perfection is the simple things, a flower, poignant and powerful, Leslie. 88 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:20.000 You see it in this movie. This is a Japanese 89 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:24.600 tea ceremony, elegant, each step, the whisking to the pouring. Perfection. 90 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:28.279 I found it fascinating. You might find it pooring that's 91 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:31.959 on you. Perfect is an ideal you strive for, something 92 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:35.639 you probably never attain, something you walk towards in life, 93 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:38.879 an ideal, a goal, a reward, a gift you give yourself. Tonight, 94 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:43.920 I'm not looking for perfect, I'm looking perfect for me. Yeah. 95 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:46.759 The Olympics got me thinking about it. Every one of 96 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:50.720 those athletes trains from the moment they're a child, some 97 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:53.600 two years old, four years old, twelve years old, fifteen. 98 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:56.560 Now they're in the twenties and the striving pererfection. Some 99 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:59.600 of course have come to multiple Olympics in their thirties. 100 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:03.079 But I don't believe in this particular Olympics in Paris, 101 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:06.800 anyone received a perfect ten on any score, and if 102 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:09.199 there were some I didn't see it. There were few 103 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:15.519 and far between. The drive for perfection is outrageously hard, 104 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:19.199 but it doesn't mean you shouldn't try, which brings me 105 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:23.399 to politics. This is where I usually took politics to Jesse. 106 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:26.199 He's not here right now. He's busy again, always working, 107 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:28.560 always work, And I'm sorry he's not here, so I'll 108 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:31.720 have to carry this myself. I hesitate to tell you 109 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:34.560 what I'm about to tell you. I'm a Trump fan. 110 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:38.600 I can't help myself why because I knew him. I 111 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:41.079 worked with him. I did the licensing deal with him 112 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:44.319 that started Trump Apparel when he was on The Apprentice. 113 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:47.040 It was a huge, huge success at Macy's and lasted 114 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:49.279 for quite a long time. But I got to know 115 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:51.720 him during that period in time, and everything he promised 116 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:54.920 he would do, he would do. So I lean in 117 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:57.680 with the idea that I'm going to give Trump the 118 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:03.800 benefit of the doubt. I think said that listening to him, 119 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:09.279 watching him for the last eight years. He's done some 120 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:13.720 great things. But he's also, I say myself, an acquired 121 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:16.639 to He's an acquired taste. I could see why people 122 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:19.399 don't like him. I get it, But I'm a fan. 123 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:22.519 I'm a fan because of what he accomplished when he 124 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:27.000 was president. I have tremendous problem with the way he 125 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:31.399 articulates what he wants to accomplish, the things he says, 126 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:34.480 the way he addresses people. Some of the things that 127 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:38.959 he ascribes to I find ridiculous in a problem and 128 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:42.120 it really upsets me for him. If he's going to 129 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:44.360 be present, if he wants to be present, he doesn't 130 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:47.720 have much margin for era. He's got to get it together. 131 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:50.399 But there is a common sense when it comes to 132 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:52.279 Donald Trump. When he stood up at the last time 133 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:55.480 I saw him address the crowd, he said, electric cars 134 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:58.720 are not for everyone. Those people want electric cars can 135 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:01.959 have electric cars. Those people who don't don't. And there's 136 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:04.399 a lot of common sense that goes into play. And 137 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:07.160 I often ask myself how he should behave what is 138 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:10.720 his message? And this week he did something that I 139 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:13.959 thought all along he should have done a while ago. 140 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:18.399 It's the most simple question that anyone could ask in 141 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:23.839 a presidential election. Simply put, are you better off? Four 142 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:26.600 years later? I want to play for you the commercial 143 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:29.120 he just did, and it's really a speech of Ronald Reagan. 144 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:30.480 You'll get the point. 145 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:34.799 Please welcome President Ronald Reagan, who has a few questions 146 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:35.120 for you. 147 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:38.879 All of you will go to the polls who stand 148 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:43.399 there in the polling place and make a decision. I 149 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:45.440 think when you make that decision, it might be well 150 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:50.279 if you would ask yourself, are you better off than 151 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:53.840 you were four years ago? Is it easier for you 152 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:55.799 to go and buy things in the stores than it 153 00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:59.840 was four years ago? Is there more or less unemployment 154 00:08:59.879 --> 00:09:04.559 and country than there was four years ago? Is America 155 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:08.480 as respected throughout the world as it was? Do you 156 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:13.159 feel that our security is as say that we're as 157 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:17.320 strong as we were four years ago? If you don't 158 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:19.519 think that this course that we've been on for the 159 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:21.600 last four years is what you would like to see 160 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:25.879 us follow for the next four then I could suggest 161 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:27.240 another choice that you. 162 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:32.559 Had President Trump. He'll make America great again. 163 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:37.200 Simply put. Ronald Reagan was a genius in his own right. 164 00:09:38.039 --> 00:09:40.399 He was one of the best presidents ever. He created 165 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:45.759 a world through communication. He inherited a disaster. After Carter 166 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:49.120 Jimmy Catter was the president, he got voted out and 167 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:53.480 Ronald Reagan came in. Twenty percent interest rates recession. I 168 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:56.399 ran holding hostages. You know, he came in with a 169 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:59.759 powerful message. The day they found out that he was president, 170 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:02.600 I ran announced that they're going to release all the hostages. 171 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:04.159 If it wasn't a day, it was the weak was 172 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:07.240 the most remarkable thing of all. They were afraid of 173 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:10.600 what he would do because he was considered a cowboy, 174 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:14.000 someone who would get things done with. Many things about 175 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:16.879 Trump are like that. What I like about Trump was 176 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:20.879 his record. I can't help but think about what he accomplished. 177 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:24.559 Everything he set out to do, he tried to do, 178 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:29.320 and he got waylaid by the COVID virus. Now having 179 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:33.120 said all of that, he reduced inflation. There was no 180 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:37.519 jobless rate. Everybody's working, everybody was making more money. He 181 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:40.360 got the NATO allies to pay their fast share. He 182 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:43.519 eliminated trade agreements that didn't make sense for this country. 183 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:47.919 He didn't like the Paris Climate Accords because India and 184 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:51.120 China were given a free pass till two, thy thirty 185 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:52.519 five or twenty fifty. 186 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:53.320 I get it. 187 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:57.320 Those countries were just industrializing. They belieded a break according 188 00:10:57.320 --> 00:11:00.279 to that, but it didn't help the Climate Accords. This 189 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:05.919 selection is based on two people. Kamala Harris. She's the 190 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:10.519 most radical Senator. I'm told that ever n her policies 191 00:11:10.919 --> 00:11:14.639 and her PORTA records and everything she's done is really questionable. 192 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:18.519 I don't like what she stands for. I don't like 193 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:21.320 the policies. I don't hear the common sense. I don't 194 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:24.000 hear the solutions to the country. The border isn't working, 195 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:28.039 inflation's a problem, defund the police. Crime is escalated. You 196 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:30.039 have to hide your watch when you walk the street. 197 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:32.000 You can't walk down New York alone. You can't go 198 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:35.559 on the subways. Electrical bikes are no rules. There's a 199 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:38.200 lot of terrible things happening in this country now. And 200 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:40.840 you have to look and ask yourself, where were the 201 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:43.840 Democrats the last four years? What have they accomplished other 202 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:49.559 touchy feely stuff. Look, you're talking about perfection. This country 203 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:55.480 is not perfect, but it's moving towards perfect. It's always improving, 204 00:11:55.559 --> 00:11:58.480 it's always trying to do the right thing. And I 205 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:02.240 ask us all now, the first time ever Trump has 206 00:12:02.279 --> 00:12:05.919 a message, it's not even his words, it's Ronald Reagan's word. 207 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:09.399 Hear that speech. I'll play it again right now. 208 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:13.799 Please welcome President Ronald Reagan, who has a few questions 209 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:15.519 for you all. 210 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:18.039 Of you will go to the polls who stand there 211 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:22.600 in the polling place and make a decision. I think 212 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:24.559 when you make that decision, it might be well if 213 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:29.360 you would ask yourself, are you better off than you 214 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:33.000 were four years ago? Is it easier for you to 215 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:35.000 go and buy things in the stores than it was 216 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:39.000 four years ago? Is there more or less unemployment in 217 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:43.080 the country than there was four years ago? Is America 218 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:47.480 has respected throughout the world as it was? Do you 219 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:49.399 feel that our security. 220 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:51.080 Is a saint? 221 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:53.799 That we're as strong as we were four years ago? 222 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:58.120 If you don't think that this course that we've been 223 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:00.279 on for the last four years is what you'd like 224 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:04.279 to see us fall over the next four then I 225 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:05.799 could suggest another choice. 226 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:11.000 That you have President Trump. He'll make America great again. 227 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:12.399 Yeah? 228 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:16.440 Are you better off four years later? Tonight's show, I'm 229 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:19.480 talking about perfection. I'm thinking about what it takes to 230 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:22.600 be perfect. But I have learned for myself so I 231 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:25.759 can live a normal light. 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There's a 260 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:57.600 lot of details that go into carlago Felt because he's 261 00:14:57.600 --> 00:15:00.000 always been he always had been one of the worlds 262 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.320 world's great designers, and this legacy and goes on and on. 263 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:06.080 I can't speak enough about it except to say to you, 264 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:08.240 you want to feel good about yourself. You want to 265 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:10.200 know that you're dressing properly. You want to clothes that 266 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:15.559 fits you well. Carl Lagafeld, Paris at Macy's Orcarl Lagafel 267 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:20.840 dot com. A favorite brand has always been ISOD. My 268 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:23.360 company at one time bought that brand. The CEO of 269 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:25.480 the company handed it to me and said, you better 270 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:29.279 make it work. And I put everything in my career 271 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:31.440 to make ISOD work. And I fell in love with 272 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:34.919 that brand, and to this day it is one of 273 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:38.840 the most exciting endeavors I've ever got involved with. ISOD 274 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:43.919 is an incredibly strong golf brand. If you play golf, 275 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:47.120 if you play tennis for that matter. They make a 276 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:53.159 great polo shirts. I mean great. They're fit perfect. The 277 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:57.440 material is unique because it's a PK fabric, that waffleweave 278 00:15:57.519 --> 00:16:01.720 you see, and it's made of blend cotton and microfiber 279 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:05.639 that allows you to stretch. And very often they are 280 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:12.200 treated with solar protection as well, so they stretch, they're comfortable, 281 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:14.840 and they breathe well. And one thing about Isaac they 282 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:17.440 always fit. They'll never tug on you. You put it 283 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:20.960 in your waist, they'll fit you great. The colors, patterns 284 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:24.440 are sensational. Now I will also tell you Isaod makes 285 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:27.639 great shorts and great golf pants. You're a golfer and 286 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:29.120 you want to look good. You don't have to think 287 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:31.799 about how do I look. You want to think about 288 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:34.960 how you play, not how you feel. Isaad is the 289 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:37.159 brand for you. I know I was there when it 290 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:40.519 was created. The strategy behind that brand is brilliant. It's 291 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:42.879 one of my favorite brands. While I talk about it, 292 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:45.879 I should tell you about the men's sportswear. Isaod wasn't 293 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:48.559 enough being a golf brand. It wasn't enough being just 294 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:53.120 great polo shirts with logos without logos, incredible brand and 295 00:16:53.200 --> 00:16:58.879 story and history. Isaad makes salt weather programs. They have 296 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:05.680 great printed woven shirts, short sleeves that look excellent with colors, 297 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:09.319 excellent with shorts, excellent with cotton pants of which they 298 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:12.960 also make this whole salt order relaxed line from Ison, 299 00:17:13.319 --> 00:17:19.319 whether it be fleece, cotton sweaters, knit polos, woven shirts 300 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:22.880 and pants of a range of colors and fabrics that 301 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:25.079 are perfect for a guy wants to go casually in 302 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:28.119 the spring and summer of this year. And here's the 303 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:36.400 thing iszon is affordable. Everyone listening to me talk about 304 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:39.880 this brand can afford to buy it and know that 305 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:41.799 there are a lot of other brands that also have 306 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:45.240 a look like Izod. Although I don't believe it's fun 307 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:48.359 as isond is, the brand has a lot of energy 308 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:51.960 in it, but at the price points no one can compete. 309 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:55.960 You can find Isaod at your leading retailers and online 310 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:59.359 at ion dot com. Talk to you later, guys. I 311 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:04.079 wish you. I'm very happy spring in summer, and I 312 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:06.240 help you by telling you if you were eyesight, you're 313 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:06.880 going to look great. 314 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:11.839 Welcome back to always in fashion. Here's your host, Mark Webber. 315 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:16.160 I've always been a perfectionist. I've always tried to be perfect. 316 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:19.200 I've always looked for perfect and the truth is you 317 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:23.119 never find it, and I can find it very stressful 318 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:27.240 and disappointing that when I'm looking for perfection it doesn't 319 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:32.359 really exist. I hate to admit it. I can't find great. 320 00:18:32.599 --> 00:18:35.400 I think good is the enemy of great. Anybody says 321 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:39.039 that's good, great, that's fine, Hey nice, it's the enemy 322 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:41.039 of great. I want at least great. But I've always 323 00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:45.480 been looking for perfection. The other day, someone I was 324 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:49.640 with asked me about my career, and I thought about 325 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:57.720 what have I achieved? What has been perfect? And nothing? Simple? Nothing? 326 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:00.839 And then I said to myself, you know, all these people, 327 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:03.559 if they really wanted to know who I am, and 328 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:05.680 they asked these questions, and now I'm talking to them, 329 00:19:05.720 --> 00:19:09.000 I wonder what they would find on the internet about me. 330 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:12.119 And I got to tell you, you go on the internet, 331 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:14.880 there's an awful lot of stuff about Mark Weber, whether 332 00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:18.240 it's corporate executive, whether it's LVMH or frankly, whether I 333 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:21.039 got fired from PVH all those years ago, how many 334 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:24.279 years ago. Is it now eighteen years and I still 335 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:28.720 can't forget it. But it's an interesting story because there 336 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:31.680 it is out there forever once since in words, you 337 00:19:31.880 --> 00:19:36.119 never goes away. And I thought about what would people 338 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:39.039 see when they read about me. They would read about 339 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:42.799 my radio career, my books, beautiful things, you know. Mcgrough 340 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:46.519 Hill taps Mark Weber's book, moroc Hill gets the rights 341 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:48.559 to Weber's new book, and on and on and on. 342 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:52.359 LVMH signs Weber for top spot in the USA. But 343 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:57.240 I can't help but read that I was fired. And 344 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:02.240 when you read what was written, it said that I 345 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:07.920 didn't tow the company line, that I was dressing wearing 346 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:12.119 jeans and casual clothes to work, and then I just 347 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:15.759 wasn't their kind of guy. And I accept that because 348 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:18.799 I wasn't. When I was named CEO of the company. 349 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:23.599 The only request that the former CEO, who handed off 350 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:26.920 the reins to the CEO to me. I was president 351 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:31.759 in corporate, I was a board member. He suggested that 352 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:35.000 I become his replacement when he decided to retire. He 353 00:20:35.079 --> 00:20:37.440 met with the board, convinced the board they made me 354 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:41.240 the CEO. But he asked me one thing and one thing, 355 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:47.440 only spend time with the board, have lunches with him, 356 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:53.680 have dinners with them, call them, etc. Now, in hindsight, 357 00:20:54.400 --> 00:20:56.319 if you asked me how many times I called any 358 00:20:56.359 --> 00:21:00.920 board member, anybody want to guess. Zero? Oh. Never once 359 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:03.640 did I call a board member. Never once did I 360 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:07.079 initiate a lunch. Never once did I initiated dinner. I 361 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:10.640 just didn't do it. Now. The interesting thing about my 362 00:21:10.759 --> 00:21:13.440 termination when the time happened, it was mentioned in the 363 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:16.519 article that I saw the other day that it wasn't 364 00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:20.119 for performance because the company was doing fine. So it's 365 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:24.240 an interesting phenomenon. But I'll tell you when I knew 366 00:21:24.440 --> 00:21:29.400 for sure that something wasn't perfect, which is the conversation 367 00:21:29.599 --> 00:21:34.400 for tonight. My first major board meeting after becoming CEO 368 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:38.119 had to do with I was concerned that our growth 369 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:42.920 was slowing down. Public companies, you get paid to grow 370 00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:48.880 the company. Public companies are for shareholders. Shareholders invest in 371 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:52.200 the company, and people don't buy your stock invest in 372 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:55.240 your company unless they think the stock is going to 373 00:21:55.319 --> 00:21:58.160 go up in value. And the only reason you're the 374 00:21:58.240 --> 00:22:01.039 CEO is for the stock to go up up in value. 375 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:04.119 Forget all the nice things about building the brands pile, 376 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:07.960 inviting a wonderful environment for people to work. The only 377 00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:12.119 reason you're in a CEO job is to build and 378 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:16.359 grow the company. Increase the market value, increase the earnings 379 00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:18.880 per share so the stock price will go up. That's 380 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:22.640 your only job period now. Being a good guy treating 381 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:26.279 people fairly, absolutely, that's part of the job. But your 382 00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:29.079 job is to grow the company. And in my first 383 00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:33.799 major board meeting, it became clear that the growth of 384 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:37.680 the company was in question. We had bought Calvin Klein, 385 00:22:38.039 --> 00:22:41.160 which was the last great deed of my former CEO. 386 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:43.519 His job was to buy it. My job was to 387 00:22:43.559 --> 00:22:46.480 manage it, and we were doing a spectacular job. But we 388 00:22:46.519 --> 00:22:49.319 got to the point that I was concerned that it 389 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:53.839 wasn't growing, and I was concerned that if we didn't 390 00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:58.400 find something quickly or appropriate for the company, that our 391 00:22:58.440 --> 00:23:01.160 stock would start to stagnate rather than grow the way 392 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:03.680 it had been doing for the last couple of years. 393 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:05.000 Now. 394 00:23:05.640 --> 00:23:08.839 When I looked at it, we had a number of choices. 395 00:23:09.519 --> 00:23:13.720 One was that we had a number of licensees that 396 00:23:13.880 --> 00:23:19.519 had large components of the Calvin Kline business within their purview. 397 00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:24.519 For example, Fragrance was done with Unileva, big business. Should 398 00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:26.920 we be in the fragrance business? Buy it back ourselves. No, 399 00:23:27.319 --> 00:23:29.799 we knew nothing about it. But there's a company known 400 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:32.799 as Wannaco. They no longer exist. In fact, that's the 401 00:23:32.839 --> 00:23:36.000