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Speaker 1: is Mark Weber. He's a self made business executive here
Speaker 1: to help you find your success from the New York
Speaker 1: City projects to the Avenue Montaigne in Paris. His global
Speaker 1: success story in the luxury world of fashion is inspirational.
Speaker 1: He's gone from clerk to CEO twice. Mark is classic
Speaker 1: proof that the American dream is alive. And well, here's
Speaker 1: your host of Always in Fashion, Mark Weber.
Speaker 2: Mark Weber.
Speaker 3: The Olympics got me thinking about perfection. I find myself
Speaker 3: the affable side of me, the friendly side, the side
Speaker 3: of me that wants to make someone feel good about
Speaker 3: what they said or offered, what they've done, or what
Speaker 3: they accomplished. Saying the simple word perfect I've gon accustomed
Speaker 3: to the word it's perfect has become a comfortable statement
Speaker 3: from Mark Webber. It's nice, it's clear, it's descriptive, not
Speaker 3: open for misinterpretation or confrontational for that matter. It's a
Speaker 3: perfect word for me, recognizing of course that I'm an
Speaker 3: acquired taste. I want my dialogs with humans to be direct,
Speaker 3: short and sweet. But I've noticed I've been saying perfect
Speaker 3: a lot, and I've been thinking what is truly perfect?
Speaker 3: Opinions vary. One man's peacock is another man's feather duster.
Speaker 3: Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. What is
Speaker 3: or is not success the success getting what you want,
Speaker 3: while happiness is wanting what you get. All these musings
Speaker 3: choices different for all of us. I've decided I'm not
Speaker 3: looking for perfect, just what is perfect for me. I've
Speaker 3: always looked for perfect and never found it. What I
Speaker 3: thought was perfect could always be improved upon. How can
Speaker 3: you be happy never getting what you strive for? The
Speaker 3: answer I found and am going to share with you.
Speaker 3: I've changed. I'm not looking for perfect, just what's perfect
Speaker 3: for me. I'll give you an example. When I started
Speaker 3: to play golf, I was mesmerized. I was addicted. I
Speaker 3: wanted to be amazingly great. After all this time struggling
Speaker 3: for perfection, it never happened. I'm athletic, great, hand in
Speaker 3: eye coordination. I put in the time, I put in
Speaker 3: the training. The best I've been on rare occasion was
Speaker 3: to make perfect contact with the ball with the perfect result.
Speaker 3: Once shot out of thousands, I could get frustrated. I
Speaker 3: went to the technological Library of the Internet. I found
Speaker 3: a book, Golf Is Not a Game of perfect by
Speaker 3: well known sports psychologist Barbara Tella. What did I learn?
Speaker 3: You'll never approach perfection. But when you're playing great, that's
Speaker 3: when you see how great you can be in spite
Speaker 3: of all the difficulties you have. When you're having those
Speaker 3: moments of greatness, you can build on them and you
Speaker 3: can be that good. I've never found it in fashion.
Speaker 3: I got another one for you. I have won denim
Speaker 3: jacket since I was in college. I still have the
Speaker 3: first one I bought in the Gap in nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 3: It was perfect then, but fashion changes. I thought I'd
Speaker 3: love it for life. I have it for life, but
Speaker 3: I don't love it. It was oversized the style at
Speaker 3: the time, and it's still beautiful to wash to finish
Speaker 3: the detailings. But it's just not current. Fashion's not like
Speaker 3: fine wine. It doesn't improve with age. In truth, I
Speaker 3: have twelve denim jackets that are current. Each was purchased
Speaker 3: with the idea that it was perfect. I would never
Speaker 3: need another one. This is for life. The latest denim
Speaker 3: jacket is polo. I'm ready search of perfection. I'm tired
Speaker 3: of it, I've lost I must find it. I'm driven.
Speaker 3: If your wife or husband the most important decision of
Speaker 3: your life, shouldn't you be striving for the most perfect partner,
Speaker 3: Not perfect, but perfect for you. And yet the scary
Speaker 3: fact is the divorce rate is over fifty percent perfection.
Speaker 3: I never thought about it until I went to Japan
Speaker 3: in the early days of my career. For a ten
Speaker 3: year period, I went to Japan between two and four
Speaker 3: times a year, depending upon global market conditions. More than
Speaker 3: anywhere else than home. I was in Japan the moment
Speaker 3: I arrived. The cleanliness, the respect, the intention to detail.
Speaker 3: I saw it at the airport. I saw it on
Speaker 3: the taxis, the people on the street, the drivers of
Speaker 3: the taxis. Everything was appeccably clean and organized. The samurai
Speaker 3: wai seeking perfection. My first day breakfast in the Royal
Speaker 3: Hotel in Osaka, overlooking the garden, the sand that was
Speaker 3: raked to perfection, the banjai trees that were cut to perfection,
Speaker 3: the water flutes moving with the sound of the water,
Speaker 3: the tending of the garden. Perfection, The Last Samurai one
Speaker 3: of my favorite movies of all time. One of the
Speaker 3: closing scenes, let me pay a kip for you.
Speaker 2: Perfect.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Perfection is the simple things, a flower, poignant and powerful, Leslie.
Speaker 3: You see it in this movie. This is a Japanese
Speaker 3: tea ceremony, elegant, each step, the whisking to the pouring. Perfection.
Speaker 3: I found it fascinating. You might find it pooring that's
Speaker 3: on you. Perfect is an ideal you strive for, something
Speaker 3: you probably never attain, something you walk towards in life,
Speaker 3: an ideal, a goal, a reward, a gift you give yourself. Tonight,
Speaker 3: I'm not looking for perfect, I'm looking perfect for me. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The Olympics got me thinking about it. Every one of
Speaker 3: those athletes trains from the moment they're a child, some
Speaker 3: two years old, four years old, twelve years old, fifteen.
Speaker 3: Now they're in the twenties and the striving pererfection. Some
Speaker 3: of course have come to multiple Olympics in their thirties.
Speaker 3: But I don't believe in this particular Olympics in Paris,
Speaker 3: anyone received a perfect ten on any score, and if
Speaker 3: there were some I didn't see it. There were few
Speaker 3: and far between. The drive for perfection is outrageously hard,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't mean you shouldn't try, which brings me
Speaker 3: to politics. This is where I usually took politics to Jesse.
Speaker 3: He's not here right now. He's busy again, always working,
Speaker 3: always work, And I'm sorry he's not here, so I'll
Speaker 3: have to carry this myself. I hesitate to tell you
Speaker 3: what I'm about to tell you. I'm a Trump fan.
Speaker 3: I can't help myself why because I knew him. I
Speaker 3: worked with him. I did the licensing deal with him
Speaker 3: that started Trump Apparel when he was on The Apprentice.
Speaker 3: It was a huge, huge success at Macy's and lasted
Speaker 3: for quite a long time. But I got to know
Speaker 3: him during that period in time, and everything he promised
Speaker 3: he would do, he would do. So I lean in
Speaker 3: with the idea that I'm going to give Trump the
Speaker 3: benefit of the doubt. I think said that listening to him,
Speaker 3: watching him for the last eight years. He's done some
Speaker 3: great things. But he's also, I say myself, an acquired
Speaker 3: to He's an acquired taste. I could see why people
Speaker 3: don't like him. I get it, But I'm a fan.
Speaker 3: I'm a fan because of what he accomplished when he
Speaker 3: was president. I have tremendous problem with the way he
Speaker 3: articulates what he wants to accomplish, the things he says,
Speaker 3: the way he addresses people. Some of the things that
Speaker 3: he ascribes to I find ridiculous in a problem and
Speaker 3: it really upsets me for him. If he's going to
Speaker 3: be present, if he wants to be present, he doesn't
Speaker 3: have much margin for era. He's got to get it together.
Speaker 3: But there is a common sense when it comes to
Speaker 3: Donald Trump. When he stood up at the last time
Speaker 3: I saw him address the crowd, he said, electric cars
Speaker 3: are not for everyone. Those people want electric cars can
Speaker 3: have electric cars. Those people who don't don't. And there's
Speaker 3: a lot of common sense that goes into play. And
Speaker 3: I often ask myself how he should behave what is
Speaker 3: his message? And this week he did something that I
Speaker 3: thought all along he should have done a while ago.
Speaker 3: It's the most simple question that anyone could ask in
Speaker 3: a presidential election. Simply put, are you better off? Four
Speaker 3: years later? I want to play for you the commercial
Speaker 3: he just did, and it's really a speech of Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 3: You'll get the point.
Speaker 4: Please welcome President Ronald Reagan, who has a few questions
Speaker 4: for you.
Speaker 5: All of you will go to the polls who stand
Speaker 5: there in the polling place and make a decision. I
Speaker 5: think when you make that decision, it might be well
Speaker 5: if you would ask yourself, are you better off than
Speaker 5: you were four years ago? Is it easier for you
Speaker 5: to go and buy things in the stores than it
Speaker 5: was four years ago? Is there more or less unemployment
Speaker 5: and country than there was four years ago? Is America
Speaker 5: as respected throughout the world as it was? Do you
Speaker 5: feel that our security is as say that we're as
Speaker 5: strong as we were four years ago? If you don't
Speaker 5: think that this course that we've been on for the
Speaker 5: last four years is what you would like to see
Speaker 5: us follow for the next four then I could suggest
Speaker 5: another choice that you.
Speaker 4: Had President Trump. He'll make America great again.
Speaker 3: Simply put. Ronald Reagan was a genius in his own right.
Speaker 3: He was one of the best presidents ever. He created
Speaker 3: a world through communication. He inherited a disaster. After Carter
Speaker 3: Jimmy Catter was the president, he got voted out and
Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan came in. Twenty percent interest rates recession. I
Speaker 3: ran holding hostages. You know, he came in with a
Speaker 3: powerful message. The day they found out that he was president,
Speaker 3: I ran announced that they're going to release all the hostages.
Speaker 3: If it wasn't a day, it was the weak was
Speaker 3: the most remarkable thing of all. They were afraid of
Speaker 3: what he would do because he was considered a cowboy,
Speaker 3: someone who would get things done with. Many things about
Speaker 3: Trump are like that. What I like about Trump was
Speaker 3: his record. I can't help but think about what he accomplished.
Speaker 3: Everything he set out to do, he tried to do,
Speaker 3: and he got waylaid by the COVID virus. Now having
Speaker 3: said all of that, he reduced inflation. There was no
Speaker 3: jobless rate. Everybody's working, everybody was making more money. He
Speaker 3: got the NATO allies to pay their fast share. He
Speaker 3: eliminated trade agreements that didn't make sense for this country.
Speaker 3: He didn't like the Paris Climate Accords because India and
Speaker 3: China were given a free pass till two, thy thirty
Speaker 3: five or twenty fifty.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 3: Those countries were just industrializing. They belieded a break according
Speaker 3: to that, but it didn't help the Climate Accords. This
Speaker 3: selection is based on two people. Kamala Harris. She's the
Speaker 3: most radical Senator. I'm told that ever n her policies
Speaker 3: and her PORTA records and everything she's done is really questionable.
Speaker 3: I don't like what she stands for. I don't like
Speaker 3: the policies. I don't hear the common sense. I don't
Speaker 3: hear the solutions to the country. The border isn't working,
Speaker 3: inflation's a problem, defund the police. Crime is escalated. You
Speaker 3: have to hide your watch when you walk the street.
Speaker 3: You can't walk down New York alone. You can't go
Speaker 3: on the subways. Electrical bikes are no rules. There's a
Speaker 3: lot of terrible things happening in this country now. And
Speaker 3: you have to look and ask yourself, where were the
Speaker 3: Democrats the last four years? What have they accomplished other
Speaker 3: touchy feely stuff. Look, you're talking about perfection. This country
Speaker 3: is not perfect, but it's moving towards perfect. It's always improving,
Speaker 3: it's always trying to do the right thing. And I
Speaker 3: ask us all now, the first time ever Trump has
Speaker 3: a message, it's not even his words, it's Ronald Reagan's word.
Speaker 3: Hear that speech. I'll play it again right now.
Speaker 4: Please welcome President Ronald Reagan, who has a few questions
Speaker 4: for you all.
Speaker 5: Of you will go to the polls who stand there
Speaker 5: in the polling place and make a decision. I think
Speaker 5: when you make that decision, it might be well if
Speaker 5: you would ask yourself, are you better off than you
Speaker 5: were four years ago? Is it easier for you to
Speaker 5: go and buy things in the stores than it was
Speaker 5: four years ago? Is there more or less unemployment in
Speaker 5: the country than there was four years ago? Is America
Speaker 5: has respected throughout the world as it was? Do you
Speaker 5: feel that our security.
Speaker 2: Is a saint?
Speaker 5: That we're as strong as we were four years ago?
Speaker 5: If you don't think that this course that we've been
Speaker 5: on for the last four years is what you'd like
Speaker 5: to see us fall over the next four then I
Speaker 5: could suggest another choice.
Speaker 4: That you have President Trump. He'll make America great again.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Are you better off four years later? Tonight's show, I'm
Speaker 3: talking about perfection. I'm thinking about what it takes to
Speaker 3: be perfect. But I have learned for myself so I
Speaker 3: can live a normal light. I'm not looking for perfect,
Speaker 3: just perfect for me back.
Speaker 2: In a minute. Always in fashion.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to always in fashion. Here's your host, Mark Webber.
Speaker 3: I've always been a perfectionist. I've always tried to be perfect.
Speaker 3: I've always looked for perfect and the truth is you
Speaker 3: never find it, and I can find it very stressful
Speaker 3: and disappointing that when I'm looking for perfection it doesn't
Speaker 3: really exist. I hate to admit it. I can't find great.
Speaker 3: I think good is the enemy of great. Anybody says
Speaker 3: that's good, great, that's fine, Hey nice, it's the enemy
Speaker 3: of great. I want at least great. But I've always
Speaker 3: been looking for perfection. The other day, someone I was
Speaker 3: with asked me about my career, and I thought about
Speaker 3: what have I achieved? What has been perfect? And nothing? Simple? Nothing?
Speaker 3: And then I said to myself, you know, all these people,
Speaker 3: if they really wanted to know who I am, and
Speaker 3: they asked these questions, and now I'm talking to them,
Speaker 3: I wonder what they would find on the internet about me.
Speaker 3: And I got to tell you, you go on the internet,
Speaker 3: there's an awful lot of stuff about Mark Weber, whether
Speaker 3: it's corporate executive, whether it's LVMH or frankly, whether I
Speaker 3: got fired from PVH all those years ago, how many
Speaker 3: years ago. Is it now eighteen years and I still
Speaker 3: can't forget it. But it's an interesting story because there
Speaker 3: it is out there forever once since in words, you
Speaker 3: never goes away. And I thought about what would people
Speaker 3: see when they read about me. They would read about
Speaker 3: my radio career, my books, beautiful things, you know. Mcgrough
Speaker 3: Hill taps Mark Weber's book, moroc Hill gets the rights
Speaker 3: to Weber's new book, and on and on and on.
Speaker 3: LVMH signs Weber for top spot in the USA. But
Speaker 3: I can't help but read that I was fired. And
Speaker 3: when you read what was written, it said that I
Speaker 3: didn't tow the company line, that I was dressing wearing
Speaker 3: jeans and casual clothes to work, and then I just
Speaker 3: wasn't their kind of guy. And I accept that because
Speaker 3: I wasn't. When I was named CEO of the company.
Speaker 3: The only request that the former CEO, who handed off
Speaker 3: the reins to the CEO to me. I was president
Speaker 3: in corporate, I was a board member. He suggested that
Speaker 3: I become his replacement when he decided to retire. He
Speaker 3: met with the board, convinced the board they made me
Speaker 3: the CEO. But he asked me one thing and one thing,
Speaker 3: only spend time with the board, have lunches with him,
Speaker 3: have dinners with them, call them, etc. Now, in hindsight,
Speaker 3: if you asked me how many times I called any
Speaker 3: board member, anybody want to guess. Zero? Oh. Never once
Speaker 3: did I call a board member. Never once did I
Speaker 3: initiate a lunch. Never once did I initiated dinner. I
Speaker 3: just didn't do it. Now. The interesting thing about my
Speaker 3: termination when the time happened, it was mentioned in the
Speaker 3: article that I saw the other day that it wasn't
Speaker 3: for performance because the company was doing fine. So it's
Speaker 3: an interesting phenomenon. But I'll tell you when I knew
Speaker 3: for sure that something wasn't perfect, which is the conversation
Speaker 3: for tonight. My first major board meeting after becoming CEO
Speaker 3: had to do with I was concerned that our growth
Speaker 3: was slowing down. Public companies, you get paid to grow
Speaker 3: the company. Public companies are for shareholders. Shareholders invest in
Speaker 3: the company, and people don't buy your stock invest in
Speaker 3: your company unless they think the stock is going to
Speaker 3: go up in value. And the only reason you're the
Speaker 3: CEO is for the stock to go up up in value.
Speaker 3: Forget all the nice things about building the brands pile,
Speaker 3: inviting a wonderful environment for people to work. The only
Speaker 3: reason you're in a CEO job is to build and
Speaker 3: grow the company. Increase the market value, increase the earnings
Speaker 3: per share so the stock price will go up. That's
Speaker 3: your only job period now. Being a good guy treating
Speaker 3: people fairly, absolutely, that's part of the job. But your
Speaker 3: job is to grow the company. And in my first
Speaker 3: major board meeting, it became clear that the growth of
Speaker 3: the company was in question. We had bought Calvin Klein,
Speaker 3: which was the last great deed of my former CEO.
Speaker 3: His job was to buy it. My job was to
Speaker 3: manage it, and we were doing a spectacular job. But we
Speaker 3: got to the point that I was concerned that it
Speaker 3: wasn't growing, and I was concerned that if we didn't
Speaker 3: find something quickly or appropriate for the company, that our
Speaker 3: stock would start to stagnate rather than grow the way
Speaker 3: it had been doing for the last couple of years.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: When I looked at it, we had a number of choices.
Speaker 3: One was that we had a number of licensees that
Speaker 3: had large components of the Calvin Kline business within their purview.
Speaker 3: For example, Fragrance was done with Unileva, big business. Should
Speaker 3: we be in the fragrance business? Buy it back ourselves. No,
Speaker 3: we knew nothing about it. But there's a company known
Speaker 3: as Wannaco. They no longer exist. In fact, that's the
Speaker 3: company I wanted to buy. Why because they had the
Speaker 3: license to Calvin Kline Genes, which I knew we could
Speaker 3: run and do very well. And they had the license
Speaker 3: to Calvin Kline Underwear, which was a mainstay in America
Speaker 3: and one of the most amazing basic businesses in the world.
Speaker 3: You have a bunch of fashion styles that you come
Speaker 3: and go, but your core Calvin Kline underwear business is
Speaker 3: like a bank account. It continues to sell the year
Speaker 3: after year after year, and you're good at replenishment. Every
Speaker 3: time something sells, you send a new shipment. Every time
Speaker 3: something sells, Macy's takes it out of the back, the
Speaker 3: extra Cavil Klan under it, puts it on the floor
Speaker 3: so the customer can get it. I wanted to buy it,
Speaker 3: and I thought it would provide an amazing opportunity to
Speaker 3: grow the company. I will tell you in hindsight, either
Speaker 3: two or three years later, don't hold me to it.
Speaker 3: PVH did buy Calvin Klein from Warnaco, and after that
Speaker 3: it's all uphill. But the interesting thing in that meeting
Speaker 3: I said to the board, look, we can coast and
Speaker 3: we'll do fine, but if we wanted to continue to
Speaker 3: grow at the twenty percent rate, we have to make
Speaker 3: an acquisition. And I think this makes the most sense
Speaker 3: for us. Logical said, well, I couldn't have done it
Speaker 3: any better if you asked me to do it again.
Speaker 3: It's exactly what I would say again. At the end
Speaker 3: of the meeting, my boss says to see me. The
Speaker 3: former CEO, who remained on his chairman, asked me to
Speaker 3: come down to his office, closes the door and starts
Speaker 3: yelling at me, what the f were you thinking when
Speaker 3: you said the word coast? What what's wrong with the
Speaker 3: word coast? I made a point that I didn't want
Speaker 3: to just coast. I wanted to be aggressive. I wanted
Speaker 3: to be a CEO that was gonna build a business.
Speaker 3: Said you don't use the word coast, And it was
Speaker 3: then that I knew that my role as CEO wasn't long.
Speaker 3: There were plenty of signs beforehand. One of the most
Speaker 3: amazing signs was the night before he was turning over
Speaker 3: the CEO role to me in a June annual meeting.
Speaker 3: There was a big, big go away party for the
Speaker 3: former CEO, and everyone did videos and sent words from
Speaker 3: all of the world congratulations, congratulations that I made a
Speaker 3: short speech and everything, and the dinner was spectacular but
Speaker 3: was interesting. No one wished me luck. I mean the
Speaker 3: outgoing CEO, the king is dead, long lived the news King.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know he did a great job. He's beloved.
Speaker 3: I loved him. He was my closest ally, one of
Speaker 3: my closest friends. I couldn't have ever been successful out
Speaker 3: or I loved him. But nobody took the time to
Speaker 3: stand up and say, Bruce is leaving, the new CEO
Speaker 3: is coming in. This is a remarkable time. Let's give
Speaker 3: a round of applause or welcome. That's not how I
Speaker 3: was introduced. I was on video and gave my speech
Speaker 3: and I knew it. And I had asked the guy
Speaker 3: planning the meeting, who's also one of my close friends,
Speaker 3: has anyone talked about a toast to me or recognizing
Speaker 3: me at this Then he said no. I said, well,
Speaker 3: listen to me. I don't want you to offer it up.
Speaker 3: I don't want you to say anything. I want to
Speaker 3: watch it. I want to observe what's going on. At
Speaker 3: the annual meeting the day the business was turned over
Speaker 3: to me, I watched the board. They weren't looking at me.
Speaker 3: They didn't appear happy to me. My wife is the
Speaker 3: one who told me. She said, I'm sitting here mark
Speaker 3: after the meeting, and she says, no one came over
Speaker 3: to wish me luck. She wasn't even given the seat
Speaker 3: of honor. Someone else took the seat row and in
Speaker 3: front of us. She couldn even be in the front row.
Speaker 3: So I knew from day one. My wife knew more
Speaker 3: than me that my role as a CEO was imperfect,
Speaker 3: that it wasn't going to last the test of time.
Speaker 3: And I remember when I got terminated. I had drinks
Speaker 3: with the former CEO. What the hell happened? And he
Speaker 3: said to me, I told you you needed to spend
Speaker 3: time with the board, and you didn't, So be it.
Speaker 3: That's life. If I had to do it all over again,
Speaker 3: would I have done it? Perhaps, But I never dreamed
Speaker 3: that it would turn out that way. But nothing in
Speaker 3: life is perfect. No one's perfect, and certainly I wasn't.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I can think of all the times. Every time I
Speaker 3: mastered a discipline, when I went from not knowing the
Speaker 3: finances to being great at finances, it wasn't enough then
Speaker 3: it was the next thing I needed to do. When
Speaker 3: I learned about the warehouse and everything going on and information,
Speaker 3: time never perfect. I always had to go on and
Speaker 3: on and on, and it was never happy. It wasn't
Speaker 3: my time to be. The time came and gone another
Speaker 3: meeting with my former friend and he said to me,
Speaker 3: you know the board didn't want you. I had to
Speaker 3: convince them. And I looked at him and said, that
Speaker 3: would have been nice to know three years ago. What
Speaker 3: are you telling me now. I didn't know they didn't
Speaker 3: want me. I just thought they had to work hard
Speaker 3: at the time to decide whether they would take someone
Speaker 3: from in house or bring someone from outside. Anyway, I
Speaker 3: make a long story short. Life's not perfect. It's not
Speaker 3: perfect for me, it's not perfect for you. Get over it.
Speaker 3: I'm talking perfect tonight because I know it's a goal
Speaker 3: that I strive for every day. But I learned for
Speaker 3: happiness purposes. I'm not looking for perfect, just perfect for
Speaker 3: me simply means I want to find things that I
Speaker 3: could do that I could like that I think are
Speaker 3: perfect whether they are or not, and make myself happy
Speaker 3: back in a minute.
Speaker 2: Always in fashion, I.
Speaker 3: Spent a lifetime of my career building the Van Usten Brand,
Speaker 3: and I am so pleased that they're with us now
Speaker 3: talking about suits. Men were dressing up again and it's
Speaker 3: become cool to wear a suit. Suits can be worn
Speaker 3: on multiple occasions in multiple ways. You could wear a
Speaker 3: suit formally to go out at night or to an event.
Speaker 3: You wear a suit to the office with or without
Speaker 3: a tie. If you look closely, now fashion trends, suits
Speaker 3: are being worn with turtlenecks or mark next. The choices
Speaker 3: are endless and every one of them looks right. You
Speaker 3: could really really look the part. I believe that packaging
Speaker 3: yourself is as important as the products you package, and
Speaker 3: wearing a suit is one of those things that make
Speaker 3: men look their best. Venues and invented a new idea.
Speaker 3: It's called the cool flex suit. It's been engineered with
Speaker 3: stretch technology, giving you the most comfortable fit and mobility.
Speaker 3: It's wrinkle resistant fabric, it's cool moisture WICKI it makes
Speaker 3: it perfect for all occasions. As we discussed just now,
Speaker 3: this new style of looking shop while feeling cool and
Speaker 3: comfortable is amazing and I'm so excited that the van
Speaker 3: Using company is involved in this new technology and is
Speaker 3: embracing the whole idea of dressing up. Let's not forget
Speaker 3: van Usen made its name with dress shirts. It's only
Speaker 3: proper that the suit business follows strongly in its way.
Speaker 3: You can find van Using Koolflex men's stretch suits at
Speaker 3: jcpenny or online at jcpenny dot com. Guys, they're great.
Speaker 3: You should go look at them. Dkn Why Donna Karen,
Speaker 3: New York. Donna Karen began her career as one of
Speaker 3: the finest, most successful, powerful women in the fashion industry.
Speaker 3: She developed a collection aimed at the luxury market for
Speaker 3: women on the go, women who were powerful in their workplace,
Speaker 3: women who had lives that extended beyond the workplace, and
Speaker 3: her clothes went from day and tonight. An extraordinary collection.
Speaker 3: But the interesting thing Donna Karen had a young daughter,
Speaker 3: and she had friends and they couldn't afford to buy
Speaker 3: the Donna Aaron collection, and Donna invented dk NY Donna Aaron,
Speaker 3: New York. It's an offshoot of the Donna Karen collection.
Speaker 3: The same concept a lifestyle brand. Now we talk about
Speaker 3: lifestyle brands, what does that really mean? Simply what they say,
Speaker 3: there are brands that follow you throughout your lifestyle. You
Speaker 3: get up in the morning, you start to get dressed
Speaker 3: Donna Karen dcan why as intimate apparel, as hosiery, as
Speaker 3: all those products. You're getting dressed for work. You get
Speaker 3: accessorized shoes, handbags, and it takes you through the day.
Speaker 3: The remarkable thing about DK and Y clothes for work,
Speaker 3: they work into the evening. The dresses, the suits, the pants,
Speaker 3: the sweaters, the blouses, extraordinary clothes at affordable prices that
Speaker 3: go from day in tonight. Part of your lifestyle is active.
Speaker 3: You have weekends, you have events, you participate in sports.
Speaker 3: Donna Karen's casual clothes did that under the DKNY label.
Speaker 3: A vast array of casual sports where that make women
Speaker 3: look great as they navigate their busy lives. Whether you
Speaker 3: going to soccer games for your children or whether you're
Speaker 3: going out to the movies, whatever you want to do.
Speaker 3: DK and Y Jeenes dk Y Sportswear is there for you.
Speaker 3: That's what a lifestyle brand is. And I need to
Speaker 3: mention DKY Activewear, which is extraordinary. The leggings, the sports bras,
Speaker 3: the sweats. You can wear DKY Activewear certainly in the gym,
Speaker 3: certainly when you're working out at home, and certainly if
Speaker 3: you want on the street, because it's that well done.
Speaker 3: The quality of dk why is nothing short of exceptional.
Speaker 3: And why shouldn't it be because it was born from
Speaker 3: the idea of luxury made affordable for women of America.
Speaker 3: DK and Why a true lifestyle brand that takes you
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Speaker 1: Welcome back Always in Fashion, here's your host, Mark Webber.
Speaker 3: Perfect it's an ideal you strive for, something you probably
Speaker 3: will never attain, but something that you walk towards in life.
Speaker 3: An ideal, a goal, or it's a reward that you
Speaker 3: give yourself, the idea of being perfect. I've never achieved perfection,
Speaker 3: but it never stopped me from trying to. I believe
Speaker 3: this country can be perfect. It's not perfect, but it's
Speaker 3: always moving in a direction to be perfect. I believe
Speaker 3: we have an obligation to pick the right candidate right
Speaker 3: now for president If Kamala Harris wins, she's my president,
Speaker 3: and I will respect her and treat her with the
Speaker 3: dignity she deserve. If Donald Trump wins, who's my candidate.
Speaker 3: I will treat him and respect him as he should be.
Speaker 3: I want them to be successful. I want them to
Speaker 3: be admired. I want them to get the country back
Speaker 3: on track, moving in the direction of perfection, even knowing
Speaker 3: the chances are we won't. But to be moving in
Speaker 3: the right direction is a good thing. Now in that
Speaker 3: the name of the show is always in fashion, I
Speaker 3: want to talk a little bit about fashion. I want
Speaker 3: to talk about dress codes. I believe in rules. I
Speaker 3: wish there were dress codes. I wish there were dress
Speaker 3: codes in every restaurant I walk into. I wish there
Speaker 3: were dress codes for people walking down the street. I
Speaker 3: wish there were dress codes for everything. I've just spent
Speaker 3: most of the summer looking at women. God bless them,
Speaker 3: they look great. There are a lot of things that
Speaker 3: are starting to really disturb me. I must tell you, ladies,
Speaker 3: you're beautiful. I like what you represent, I love what
Speaker 3: you're doing. But I got to tell you, I've always
Speaker 3: been uncomfortable with cleavage. But now thongs on the beach.
Speaker 3: I don't understand the message. It bothers me. It makes
Speaker 3: me so uncomfortable. I don't know what to tell you. You're beautiful,
Speaker 3: clothes are beautiful, styles are beautiful. I don't understand what's
Speaker 3: going on, and it's made me crazy. And men, if
Speaker 3: it wasn't for bad taste, you'd have no taste at all.
Speaker 3: I don't know when dressing down became more important than
Speaker 3: looking good. I don't know when it happened. I've written
Speaker 3: books on this subject, and yet I'm caught unawares to
Speaker 3: the degree of lack of taste that exists today with
Speaker 3: men's I had a degree of comfort the other day.
Speaker 3: I was playing in a golf tournament and I'm looking
Speaker 3: at these guys. I tell you, literally speaking, my sons
Speaker 3: and I are the only ones on the golf course
Speaker 3: that wear long pants. I think long pants are more elegant.
Speaker 3: I think it's a better completed look. And to tell
Speaker 3: you the truth, if I was president of the United States,
Speaker 3: the first thing I would do is banded shorts. Shorts
Speaker 3: are not allowed. The only place you could wear shorts
Speaker 3: or bathing suits on the beach. Other than that, you're
Speaker 3: not allowed to wear shorts period. I don't want to
Speaker 3: look at your lafe. I'm not interested. Ninety nine percent
Speaker 3: of you have ugly legs. You don't look good throwing
Speaker 3: your bellies and throwing the clothes you choose. Forget it.
Speaker 3: I don't want you wearing shorts. So I'm getting to
Speaker 3: guy guzzigs to me. He says, you know what, You're
Speaker 3: always wearing white pants. What's are the white pants? Why
Speaker 3: don't you wear shorts? Hey, look, you're kidding, right, This
Speaker 3: is so much cooler. I say, it's not cooler. I
Speaker 3: look at you and your shorts. Their legs are in
Speaker 3: the sun. The heat is bearing down. You have lotional
Speaker 3: sunblock on your legs, beating down, beating bound. I'm wearing
Speaker 3: my pants and the white are reflecting. What are you thinking?
Speaker 3: You can't tell me that works. I believe in dress codes.
Speaker 3: You know, Wimbledon tennis, all white, gotta wear white. They
Speaker 3: look great. There's something about dressing up. It's a nice thing.
Speaker 3: And I've talked about this before. You want success. This
Speaker 3: show is always about success. Always in fashion is always
Speaker 3: about success. Packaging yourself is always about success. Why don't
Speaker 3: you get the most out of what you can be.
Speaker 3: If you're going to work in a company, don't you
Speaker 3: want to do as best you can. I know it's
Speaker 3: not there, but the way you look matters. Having said that,
Speaker 3: we all can't be beautiful, we all can't be handsome.
Speaker 3: We all don't have hair, we all don't have beards.
Speaker 3: Everybody's different. Some are thin, some are heavy, some are not,
Speaker 3: some are tall, some are sure. We have to do
Speaker 3: our best to look our best. And I haven't talked
Speaker 3: about this in a while, but I'm going to do
Speaker 3: it again because the summer liken or not, appears to
Speaker 3: be ending, so once more time, I want to go
Speaker 3: back and tell you that when I was starting out
Speaker 3: in business, when I first showed up at my first job,
Speaker 3: I recognize that everyone was dressed differently. They were very conservative,
Speaker 3: navy suits, gray suits, hermez ties, very little jewelry, very
Speaker 3: very elegant, if you will, But they were all part
Speaker 3: of a club. They either Shopton, Paul Stewart, Brooks Brothers, whatever,
Speaker 3: the right classic stores were, Bergdorf, Sacks, etc. Those who
Speaker 3: couldn't afford those prices found what they needed in Macy's.
Speaker 3: They found what they needed. If they had a very
Speaker 3: limited pocketbook they founded at Tjmax, so there were a
Speaker 3: lot of places Coals came on and off was a
Speaker 3: big assortment of suits actually venues and suits you can
Speaker 3: find in Coals and J. C. Penny for that matter.
Speaker 3: But I had my own dress code at the time,
Speaker 3: and I always wanted to look my best. I always
Speaker 3: wanted to well. I wanted to look good. I liked
Speaker 3: the way I look. I wanted to look the best
Speaker 3: I could. And when I realized I showed up for work,
Speaker 3: I didn't understand the dress code. Now. My style was different.
Speaker 3: I was more continental. I had more of a European
Speaker 3: flare in my American style, so my suits were more
Speaker 3: They didn't have backfence the way most American suits. They
Speaker 3: had straight backs like European suits. I was different, but
Speaker 3: I chased that. I got caught up in different things,
Speaker 3: different colored shirts and different collar shirts, different kinds of
Speaker 3: ties with patterns, And I realized I was making fashion
Speaker 3: statements while everyone else was blending in. And I asked
Speaker 3: myself one day, what's wrong with this picture? I happened
Speaker 3: to have gone to event. Anybody knows me knows the story.
Speaker 3: I wore an orange dresser to event honoring the then
Speaker 3: Governor of New York. I was at a dinner and
Speaker 3: when I got home, I had a picture with me
Speaker 3: and the governor and there I am with this orange
Speaker 3: shirt and I looked at it. I said, I can't
Speaker 3: believe I'm in that picture. It's disgusting. I called my
Speaker 3: wife over. I said, why did you let me go
Speaker 3: out with? She said, you wore What am I supposed
Speaker 3: to tell you how to way with the dress? You
Speaker 3: work in the business. What do you want from me?
Speaker 3: She looked beautiful. I'm standing next to her in a picture.
Speaker 3: She's a beautiful dlack dress, and I'm wearing the navy
Speaker 3: suit with this orange shirt and orange and tie. It
Speaker 3: was disgusting, and I really was upset myself as I
Speaker 3: to think about what am I going to do? I
Speaker 3: have to fix myself. I happened to have a prophetic moment,
Speaker 3: a moment that changed my life. I said, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm going to go in simply dressed today. And I
Speaker 3: got dressed. I put on a navy blue suit, a
Speaker 3: white shirt, a navy tie. I wore Sterling silver cuff
Speaker 3: links because I thought wearing a French cuff shirt to
Speaker 3: work would make me look more formal and more elegant.
Speaker 3: I wore black tesseled loafers and a stainless steel Rolex watch.
Speaker 3: I finished getting dressed, I looked in the mirror and
Speaker 3: it stopped me cold, and I said to myself, oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, I look great. I can't look better than this.
Speaker 3: There was no way to improve it. I called my wife, Fir,
Speaker 3: I said, what do you see? What do you mean?
Speaker 2: What do I see?
Speaker 3: I see you? No, I said, what do you see?
Speaker 3: She got to help me here, Mark, I said, let
Speaker 3: me tell you what you see. You see your husband
Speaker 3: looking the best he could look. This is the best
Speaker 3: I can possibly look in my life. And from that
Speaker 3: day I realized my dress code. I knew I was
Speaker 3: going to wear a navy suit to work every day,
Speaker 3: with a white shirt and a navy tie, and for
Speaker 3: fifteen years I wore the same thing every day. Now
Speaker 3: people have accused me of being eccentric, which I used
Speaker 3: to think was a cool word, and I found out
Speaker 3: it means you're a little peculiar. Well, so be it.
Speaker 3: I accept it and I live with it. In fact,
Speaker 3: it was so outrageous that every time I met new
Speaker 3: people who I would work with I'd have to tell
Speaker 3: them my dress story, that I am wearing what looks
Speaker 3: like the same clothes every day. But I want you
Speaker 3: to know every day, I changed my shoes every day,
Speaker 3: I changed my shirt, every day, I changed my suit.
Speaker 3: All of these items, I have multiple ones. They're all
Speaker 3: numbered and I rotate them. But this is my uniform.
Speaker 3: And I wanted you to understand that when you see me,
Speaker 3: I'm not wearing the same thing. And yeah, I had
Speaker 3: to deal with being eccentric for a long time, but
Speaker 3: I learned that Albert Einstein wore a black suit and
Speaker 3: white shirt every day and never changed it because he
Speaker 3: wanted to think about relativity, not the way he looked.
Speaker 3: Now over the course of time, as time went on,
Speaker 3: I found other simple, elegant ways to look the way
Speaker 3: I wanted to look. Chalcoal gray suit, chalcoal gray tide,
Speaker 3: black shoes, starling silver cofflings, and my rolic swad And
Speaker 3: I did this look for the entirety of my business
Speaker 3: career and what came of interest to me. And when
Speaker 3: I realized how impactful and I wasn't really the only
Speaker 3: one in the world doing this. All these years later,
Speaker 3: I go to France to interview Paris with Bernard and Know,
Speaker 3: the founder and CEO of LVMH, Louisatown in Mohennessy. I
Speaker 3: was invited to Paris. I was up for an important
Speaker 3: job and I went to meet him. We're having breakfast.
Speaker 3: I get to LVMH's tower. They have a museum there.
Speaker 3: I went and hung out in the museum, waited for
Speaker 3: one of the security guards to take me up, and
Speaker 3: he ushered me into the private dining room on the
Speaker 3: executive floor of LVMH and then call it. Five minutes later,
Speaker 3: the elegant, tall, slim Bernardo and O comes walking in
Speaker 3: and with his French accent, says hello to me. And
Speaker 3: I realized sitting there right then and there he was
Speaker 3: in his uniform. And as I think back now, I
Speaker 3: don't believe I ever saw him in anything but his uniform.
Speaker 3: Black suit, black tie, white shirt, black shoes, all the ore,
Speaker 3: and I was in my uniform. There's ways to dress now.
Speaker 3: Many companies are differentiated.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: Many companies now have casual dressing, either every day or
Speaker 3: days in the week. I'm told that lawyers have casual dressing.
Speaker 3: When it comes to having clients, they always keep a
Speaker 3: blazer or a suit jacket in there with them. The
Speaker 3: smart move. You want to look your best. That's the
Speaker 3: funny thing about all of this. I see people dressing.
Speaker 3: They don't look good now. They don't know what looks good,
Speaker 3: or they don't know how to look good. And it's
Speaker 3: fascinating to me to watch all the time. I continue,
Speaker 3: yourself is always important. You'll never be perfect, but you
Speaker 3: should strive to be perfect. You don't agree with me
Speaker 3: wearing a suit shirt and tie fine, wear a suit jacket,
Speaker 3: wear an open collar shirt, wear a niche shirt that
Speaker 3: matches a suit. There's many variables that go into it.
Speaker 3: I talk about it in the venues and commercial but
Speaker 3: there's a way to look elegant and differentiate yourself from
Speaker 3: everyone else. You don't want to do that, then you
Speaker 3: dress casually for success, which happened to be the title
Speaker 3: of my first book, Dress casually for success. Because you
Speaker 3: take your tie in suit jacket off doesn't mean competition
Speaker 3: in the workplace disappears. You're still competing. And those of
Speaker 3: you who want to wear your t shirts and your
Speaker 3: jeans and your shorts and do it, go right ahead.
Speaker 3: And if you're an environment that that's the way all
Speaker 3: the people are dressing be my guest. But I assure you,
Speaker 3: if there are ten people in your company doing the
Speaker 3: same job that you are, work isn't enough. There may
Speaker 3: be one or two who shine through that with perfection,
Speaker 3: with race and brilliance that are better than the rest.
Speaker 3: But you're all dressed that way. You're losing out on
Speaker 3: an opportunity. But that as a backdrop. I'm not looking
Speaker 3: for perfect. I'm just looking for perfect for me, back
Speaker 3: in a moment.
Speaker 2: Always in fashion.
Speaker 3: Venues and for over one hundred and fifty years now
Speaker 3: has been a mainstay in American fashion. This brand that
Speaker 3: was invented for dress shirts was given to coal miners
Speaker 3: when they exited the mills dirty and dusty. The Phillips
Speaker 3: Venues and company Phillips Family's there to give them fresh
Speaker 3: new shirts that they could wear at home and feel
Speaker 3: their best. Over the course of time, venues and dress
Speaker 3: shirts grew and grew and grew to suit shirts and
Speaker 3: ties for the dress up. But now sportswear has become
Speaker 3: a dominant part of the venues and collection. You can
Speaker 3: find these products including sweaters, polos, quarter zips, trousers, and
Speaker 3: even the best of fashion has to be preserved. I
Speaker 3: don't know if I ever mentioned to you the advent
Speaker 3: of the men's necktie. There's nothing better in a men's
Speaker 3: necktie business than the business lunch, because guys would go out,
Speaker 3: they'd have their lunch that have their salads or their
Speaker 3: beef and potatoes, and snow stout about it. They would
Speaker 3: always stain their die and therefore the business grew and
Speaker 3: grew venues. And today doesn't want to make money on
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Speaker 3: one of the world's most celebrated fashion designers, Carlaga was
Speaker 3: renowned for his aspirational and cutting edge approach to style.
Speaker 3: His unique vision of Parisian shit comes to America through
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Speaker 3: to wear, accessory, shoes and bags. The fashion house Carlagofeld
Speaker 3: also offers a range of watches, I wear and premium fragrances.
Speaker 3: You can explore the car Lagofil collection at car Lagofelparis
Speaker 3: dot com. But it's more than that, I for one,
Speaker 3: love to shop. I love going around and seeing what's
Speaker 3: happening and what catches my attention, what would make me
Speaker 3: feel good to wear now. I don't wear the women's
Speaker 3: wear obviously, but I can appreciate it, and they look amazing.
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Speaker 3: I for one wear men's clothes. It is unlike my
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Speaker 3: to look current. I want to look the way I
Speaker 3: want to feel. I go out at night, I'm in
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Speaker 3: they fit great, and they have little tweaks and touches,
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Speaker 3: details that go into Carlagafel because he's always been, he
Speaker 3: always had been one of the world's great designers, and
Speaker 3: this legacy and goes on and on. I can't speak
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Always in Fashion. Here's your host, Mark Webber.
Speaker 3: I'm a student of life. I'm a curious person. I
Speaker 3: guess after all a sudden done. If one would ask
Speaker 3: me why I had any measure of success, I would
Speaker 3: tell you it's because of curiosity. Now, success doesn't come
Speaker 3: without hardware, doesn't come in without smarts, it doesn't come
Speaker 3: without dedication, and it doesn't come without drive. And there
Speaker 3: are many ways to talk about drive. One of them
Speaker 3: is seeking perfection. I've often said that good is the
Speaker 3: enemy of great. Settling for good you don't get great.
Speaker 3: Settling for great you don't get perfection. You should try
Speaker 3: for perfection and settle for great. This is life we
Speaker 3: live in. I've always wanted perfection. I've always wanted and
Speaker 3: always realized that it's just out of my grasp. There
Speaker 3: are certain things that you could perfect. I've been on
Speaker 3: the radio for seven years now. Some shows were amazing,
Speaker 3: not perfect, but amazing. Should I be unhappy with them?
Speaker 3: Absolutely not. Some shows were great and had nothing about
Speaker 3: them perfect. I have to live with it. I have
Speaker 3: to understand that that's where life is. But I strive
Speaker 3: for great and I want perfection in everything I do.
Speaker 3: The other night I had dinner and one of my
Speaker 3: favorite restaurants. The food was extraordinary, the service was extraordinary.
Speaker 3: While I was still eating, they put the check on
Speaker 3: the table that ruine perfection. What are you rushing me?
Speaker 3: What are you thinking? I should tell you. At the
Speaker 3: same time, I was still having my appetize. They serve
Speaker 3: the main course that is not perfection and they could
Speaker 3: have had it because the meal was exemplary and the
Speaker 3: people there exemplary. I want perfection and I notice when
Speaker 3: it's not there. In the end, I'm not looking for perfect,
Speaker 3: just perfect for me. And before I go, I just
Speaker 3: give you one thing to think about because of this
Speaker 3: frustration that we all find trying to be bigger than life.
Speaker 3: Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what
Speaker 3: you get. Good Night,