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Speaker 1: Who is Mark Webber. He's a self made business executive
Speaker 1: here to help you find your success from the New
Speaker 1: York City projects to the Avenue Montaigne in Paris. His
Speaker 1: global 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. Every year the day after Labor Day, I
Speaker 2: have my reoccurring nightmare. It's the final day of college.
Speaker 2: I get a call from the dean's office informing me
Speaker 2: on one credit short and I can't graduate with the class.
Speaker 2: Wakes me right up, But it's perfect timing for back
Speaker 2: to school. Just maybe something to do with me failing
Speaker 2: kiddio literature in my senior year at college and having
Speaker 2: to go to summer school. Who knew Alice in Wonderland
Speaker 2: has deep meaning and significance mentioning summer. I always remember
Speaker 2: finally the summer ending. It was sad, but I was
Speaker 2: excited about the new school year. A new book bag,
Speaker 2: new clothes, new people I didn't dislike humans, then new subjects.
Speaker 2: Fast forward these years later, I'm devastated this summer's ending.
Speaker 2: Along the way, I learned new lessons when summer ends,
Speaker 2: gone on the white pants for everyone, Just not me.
Speaker 2: I've already added to my closet new black pants, black
Speaker 2: cargo pants to be exact. Which I'll wear with a
Speaker 2: light sweater, black sweater. Or I'm gonna wear with a
Speaker 2: sport coat with black swede boots in a black sweater.
Speaker 2: Very cool look. Yes, when I was little, I'm thinking
Speaker 2: about new clothes or changing the pale. This whole thing
Speaker 2: is still exciting. New is new In the fashion luxury world,
Speaker 2: back to school always represented a huge spike in business.
Speaker 2: You go to the stores Abercami packed, American Eagle, Pack,
Speaker 2: Gap packed, even the off price guys TJ Max. This
Speaker 2: time of year boom time, mid tier department stores, Coal's
Speaker 2: and Macy's. Even luxury back to school shopping huge. A
Speaker 2: tip TiO retailers out there. Put the salespeople in place,
Speaker 2: get the registers manned it's September, It's back to school.
Speaker 2: Everyone will change their clothes now. Not to be left out,
Speaker 2: this is not the only thing that changed. The world
Speaker 2: changed when I first started the radio showing podcasts are
Speaker 2: excited for the September show. I remember September. I called
Speaker 2: it out as the super Bowl for the fashion and
Speaker 2: luxury industry. I pointed out that everyone in media was
Speaker 2: lined up for Men's Fashion Week September. That's still happening,
Speaker 2: but the world of media, particularly fashion media, has changed.
Speaker 2: The September issue of Vogue was huge. I started one
Speaker 2: show by dropping the magazine on my desk in the studio.
Speaker 2: The sound was so loud it was like dropping a
Speaker 2: brick off the Empire State Building. Nine hundred pages of
Speaker 2: new ads, new photos, new models, new statements. And every
Speaker 2: other magazine competed for the role of super Bowl leader. Harper's, Bizarre, Cosmopolitan,
Speaker 2: l Vanity Fair, Men's, it was GQ and Esquire, every brand,
Speaker 2: every designer fighting for position upfront in the magazines Vogue,
Speaker 2: who did win the advertising super Bowl every year? That
Speaker 2: was September. But I have to say there are no
Speaker 2: more magazines. I love presenting my new marketing campaigns to
Speaker 2: the company into the board. I loved even more seeing
Speaker 2: everyone else's Today magazines do not exist. This is a
Speaker 2: loss to the digital world. Consumers are losing these visuals,
Speaker 2: and that impact hurts. I miss magazines. I miss commercials
Speaker 2: that aren't about pharmaceuticals with stories that make me nauseous.
Speaker 2: I can't take those commercials. I'd like to see some
Speaker 2: fashion commercials back on TV. I miss fashion, but back
Speaker 2: to school. Yes, September is the beginning of fall in
Speaker 2: luxury fashion to jump into new business, a palette cleansing
Speaker 2: at exciting time. Now when it comes to work, I
Speaker 2: do not miss working. I do not miss doing. I
Speaker 2: do not miss the human contact. I do not miss
Speaker 2: the pressure of the field. I don't even miss the pay.
Speaker 2: What I do miss is I used to be important,
Speaker 2: particularly this time of year. Now, thank god, my sons are.
Speaker 2: I get to live the excitement with them. Now. What
Speaker 2: a switch. But I suppose that's the natural state of
Speaker 2: things in terms of missing I do miss the perks
Speaker 2: of being important, particularly in September. My front row box
Speaker 2: at the US Open, my front row box at the Yankees,
Speaker 2: my front row at Donna, Karen Calvin Klein or vtone
Speaker 2: runway shows DK why run my shows? I miss visiting
Speaker 2: stores anywhere in the world knowing my pictures are in
Speaker 2: the back. So if I show up, they know who
Speaker 2: I am. It's great for the ego. I'm allowed. No,
Speaker 2: there is a feeling when you're recognized for your position
Speaker 2: on a job well done. It's prices. We are identified
Speaker 2: by what we do. Hi, I'm Mark Webber. What do
Speaker 2: you do? Not everything? But it matters all this and more.
Speaker 2: I think about each September, the week after Labor Day
Speaker 2: in fashion known as back to school. So much has
Speaker 2: changed in the world. Think about politics. Election Day used
Speaker 2: to be a day. It's now election weeks. It's election
Speaker 2: weeks away till we have the answers. Now I know
Speaker 2: COVID forced mail in ballots. Can I ask why are
Speaker 2: we still doing them? We were all supposed to sign
Speaker 2: up and go to the ballot box. I should point
Speaker 2: out in fashion that last week I mentioned in the
Speaker 2: US Men's Open that I didn't like tank tops in
Speaker 2: and I thought they were a deterioration at the US Open.
Speaker 2: But I was wrong. I look now, for the rest
Speaker 2: of the two weeks I plowed all the fashion I've seen,
Speaker 2: it's exciting. It's same for the women, powerful women playing sports,
Speaker 2: standing their ground in fashion. Wimbledon my favorite. It's all
Speaker 2: white has its place, It's all pomp and circumstances. But
Speaker 2: I did call it out and I wanted to correct
Speaker 2: my pisions. I love Amazon. I bought their stock, but
Speaker 2: when shopping comes, whenever I need something, I know they
Speaker 2: have it, from toothpaste to car mats. Fashion not so
Speaker 2: much I do miss looking around or all the stores
Speaker 2: are closing or have closed. I recognize the importance of
Speaker 2: brands and designers who put their names above their doors
Speaker 2: and stand for who they are. It's one thing to
Speaker 2: see Polo and Macy's and another to be at the
Speaker 2: Mansion on seventy second Street. But while I'm mad at
Speaker 2: seeing Polo in Woodbury Commons, the large outlet store gives
Speaker 2: me a feeling of happiness knowing that the outlet industry,
Speaker 2: factory direct retail, is alive and well for so many
Speaker 2: global brands. I grew up in that industry as well
Speaker 2: and was always proud to have my name over the doors.
Speaker 2: Calvin Klein, Donna Karen Dky, Ezard van Usen, Yeah, the
Speaker 2: world is changing. Brands are found anywhere and everywhere. I
Speaker 2: think that's good as long as the quality retains its
Speaker 2: integrity good word integrity. We need integrity. For instance, in pricing,
Speaker 2: I don't want to buy a venues in White Dressers
Speaker 2: and Macy's for twenty five dollars and they get home
Speaker 2: and find it at nineteen ninety nine at Amazon. We
Speaker 2: can't become an industry of doubt. Value is important, so
Speaker 2: is understanding what you pay for. Using that example, a
Speaker 2: twenty five dollars white van Us and shirt may be
Speaker 2: the exact shirt that you'll find in Amazon or in
Speaker 2: an outlet center at Woodbury for nineteen ninety nine. But
Speaker 2: remember Macy's goes on sale quite often and they are
Speaker 2: also in nineteen ninety nine, so you have to know
Speaker 2: how to shop and win to shop. But even Mornportant
Speaker 2: I mentioned Woodbury commons the outlet center. You invest time
Speaker 2: to drive to Woodbury. Your time has value, so does
Speaker 2: the price of gas. In fact, the manufacturer in this
Speaker 2: case fan User is selling you directly without a middleman,
Speaker 2: and that allows them the ability to discount the price
Speaker 2: to you at nineteen ninety nine or even less. So
Speaker 2: everyone's happy you get a great shirt at a great price,
Speaker 2: you respect it for your willingness to invest your time,
Speaker 2: and everyone financially benefits. Yet the world has changed, probably
Speaker 2: for the better. I think, probably for the better, I hope.
Speaker 2: But it is September, a huge month of change. Election
Speaker 2: is around the corner. I do want a change in government,
Speaker 2: whoever can deliver it. I want an office. This is
Speaker 2: no popularity contest for me. I want less crime. I
Speaker 2: want legal borders documenting the good guys from the bad guys.
Speaker 2: I want less woke. I want more common sense. I
Speaker 2: want international strength. It's dangerous out there. Russia is a
Speaker 2: serious player that needs to reason with. China is too big,
Speaker 2: too successful to be ignored. The Middle East can blow
Speaker 2: up at any time and needs a strong hand. Who
Speaker 2: is best to navigate our country? I want less inflation
Speaker 2: and cheaper gas. I want cheaper everything, and please someone
Speaker 2: as I hope for change. Bring us together. All of
Speaker 2: us can agree to disagree and in the end appreciating
Speaker 2: differing opinions, recognizing each other's point of view, and be
Speaker 2: a united country. Oh hey, Mark, you have a phone call.
Speaker 2: A phone call? Okay, what's up? Who's on? Is Mark?
Speaker 2: Weber always in fashion.
Speaker 3: This is Jesse Weber calling in from Jesse.
Speaker 2: So where are you? So?
Speaker 3: What did you say before you said you don't miss working.
Speaker 3: I think miss working because I'm on vacation. I'm on
Speaker 3: vacation in Italy right now.
Speaker 2: Which part of Italy?
Speaker 3: So I was in the lake Como region and now
Speaker 3: Rome and I have a problem. I don't think I'm
Speaker 3: coming home. I think I'm from now on. I'm going
Speaker 3: to do this show with you with the six hour
Speaker 3: time difference, because whatever we're doing in America, we're not
Speaker 3: doing it right.
Speaker 2: I think I need to stay here, hang out with
Speaker 2: George Clooney.
Speaker 3: It's funny. I saw his villa. We took a boat
Speaker 3: tour and we saw his villa, and his villa is beautiful.
Speaker 3: It's gorgeous. It's big, but surprisingly it's not the biggest
Speaker 3: villa in Lake Como. It's not even the night villa.
Speaker 2: Well, he voted a long time ago, and there are
Speaker 2: a lot of rich people in the world.
Speaker 3: But I take it. I take it in a heartbeat.
Speaker 4: But it's that's in a magical place.
Speaker 3: My gosh, you've been to lake Como, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I have. I've been to everywhere in Italy, I guess,
Speaker 2: but you know I never told you this that when
Speaker 2: I went to Rome, I was so taken aback with Rome.
Speaker 2: I was on a business trip. I said, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm changing my name to Mark do Roma. And whenever
Speaker 2: I would write in telex is a text, I would
Speaker 2: sign them de Roma. And to this day, my closest
Speaker 2: friend Stewart, if you ever hear him talk to me,
Speaker 2: he calls me Doroma. And it stems back from the
Speaker 2: early days of my travels to Rome.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that that was what it was from.
Speaker 3: I knew that that was your nickname.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was the way I signed all my telexis
Speaker 2: and emails and everything. Doroma, Marco Doroma. Where are you now?
Speaker 2: You're in Rome.
Speaker 3: I'm in Rome. And you know it's interesting today I
Speaker 3: visited the sistein Chapel, Vatican City, Saint Peter's Silica. We
Speaker 3: had been there, you and I fifteen years ago when
Speaker 3: you were on a business trip and you brought me.
Speaker 3: And you know what's remarkable, it's all the same, nothing now.
Speaker 2: Five hundred years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, fifteen years. It hasn't changed. When reality, this
Speaker 3: thing has been here for like five hundred.
Speaker 2: And six hundred years amazing, amazing, history is incredible.
Speaker 3: I missed have me on the trip, but it's great here.
Speaker 2: That's what your wife is for, that's true. How are
Speaker 2: the clones?
Speaker 3: I don't want to miss The clothes are great. I
Speaker 3: bought Nyvy swayed Low first, not from a department store,
Speaker 3: not from a big store that but one of the
Speaker 3: local stores, the boutique Italian stores. They fit me like
Speaker 3: a glove. They're amazing. The quality here is incredible.
Speaker 2: How's the food too good?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to lull me back in the United States.
Speaker 3: But it's actually I'm not really gaining weight, which is
Speaker 3: so interesting because all the ingredients are so fresh. I
Speaker 3: ate a whole pizza to myself yesterday and pasta that night,
Speaker 3: and I haven't really gained weight.
Speaker 2: You buy me anything.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to buy you something. I know your shoe size.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to buy you the shoes that might look
Speaker 3: good on you. But you're a tough sell. I can't
Speaker 3: get anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't worry about getting anything from me. And in
Speaker 2: this case, everything you bought me this year for Father's Day,
Speaker 2: my birthday, I returned.
Speaker 3: Exactly by the way. Did you ever wear what I
Speaker 3: bought you from Greece for my honeymoon?
Speaker 2: No, but it was a beautiful shirt. I just don't
Speaker 2: wear colors. It's a gorgeous shirt.
Speaker 3: You're impossible to lie. I'll buy you a magnet. You
Speaker 3: can put her on your refrigerator.
Speaker 2: Look, if it's not black or white, I don't wear it.
Speaker 2: Sometimes tan if it's really special. But you know, I
Speaker 2: don't need anything. I have everything. Really, I don't need anything.
Speaker 2: But thank you for thinking of me.
Speaker 3: And no, of course, no, it's it's great. I'll be
Speaker 3: home soon. But I didn't want to miss always in
Speaker 3: fashion despite the time difference. How's been handling the show
Speaker 3: without me?
Speaker 2: You know, it's I'm getting used to it. You never
Speaker 2: hear You're always busy. Now you're on vacation. I know,
Speaker 2: like doing it alone. I prefer you have you. I'm
Speaker 2: really excited that you called in. This is great.
Speaker 3: If I can't make it into the studio, maybe this
Speaker 3: is another way I can.
Speaker 2: Maybe who's going to win for president?
Speaker 3: I mean it's looking like Kamala Harris because that she
Speaker 3: is the darling of the media, and she's the darling
Speaker 3: of the left. Even though there's some serious question marks
Speaker 3: in terms of what she's about, who she is. You
Speaker 3: still don't even really know. She hasn't done a full
Speaker 3: interview by herself. She has the debate coming up with
Speaker 3: Donald Trump. If that doesn't get canceled, I think that
Speaker 3: that's going to be a pivotal point in this election.
Speaker 3: That could be a real big problem for her.
Speaker 2: Well, she's changing the policy. She's into fracking in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: Now she's into building a border wall for seven hundred
Speaker 2: million dollars. All of a sudden, she's sounding like, oh,
Speaker 2: and she's going to non tax tips, which was tums idea.
Speaker 2: So she's doing a lot of flip flopping right now.
Speaker 3: I get it. I get it. But you've said it
Speaker 3: best before. There's such a hatred of Donald Trump. And
Speaker 3: also I've said it before, he's his own worst enemy.
Speaker 3: So if he doesn't do the minimum of what he
Speaker 3: needs to do at the debate, this could be her election.
Speaker 3: If he really just starts with the vendettas and the
Speaker 3: gripes and he doesn't focus specifics, and he maybe is
Speaker 3: a little too ugly in his attacks against Kamala Harris,
Speaker 3: he's going to lose and he'll blame everybody else, but
Speaker 3: in the end it would be his own fault.
Speaker 2: Did you feel the American election at all? In Italy?
Speaker 2: The people wear mega hats. Are they talking about her
Speaker 2: in their country? They don't care.
Speaker 4: Other than a store that sells little toy ducks that
Speaker 4: has a Donald Trump duck like of duck and the
Speaker 4: version of Donald Trump, there is absolutely no mention of
Speaker 4: American politics.
Speaker 2: Interesting. It just goes to show you we're will follow.
Speaker 3: My wife and I were walking and we were outside
Speaker 3: of i think some government building in Rome, and there's
Speaker 3: a bunch of reporters and I think they were interviewing
Speaker 3: some politician and we're in the background. So somewhere we
Speaker 3: are on Italian television and it's this very big important politician,
Speaker 3: government officials being interviewed in alien and irons.
Speaker 2: So being that you're becoming famous, did anybody recognize you?
Speaker 3: So funny you should say that we had a tour
Speaker 3: guide for the Vatican and it was raining today. So
Speaker 3: I'm wearing a hat and she picks us up and
Speaker 3: we go in the car and I take my hat off.
Speaker 3: She does a double takes and she goes, oh my goodness,
Speaker 3: I didn't realize who you are. She goes, I used
Speaker 3: to watch you all the time on Long Crime, the
Speaker 3: Alec Murack trial, and I was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: thousands of miles away, somebody knows me. It was incredible.
Speaker 3: She was a big fan.
Speaker 2: My son, Jesse. This is hysterical. All right, listen, it's
Speaker 2: late there. I'm gonna let you go. Thank you for
Speaker 2: calling in. Of course, listen in on the weekend. Back
Speaker 2: to school, that's what we're talking about. Now. Gives me
Speaker 2: the creeps, going back to school summer ending. But we'll say,
Speaker 2: I got some things to talk about.
Speaker 3: I'm trying not to think about it because I'm still
Speaker 3: on vacation. But I love you and have a great
Speaker 3: show without me, all right.
Speaker 2: Be wellme regard to Steve the wife, so long. God's
Speaker 2: the Haley With that as a backdrop, what a nice surprise.
Speaker 2: We'll take a break tonight. It's back to school.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to it always in fashion, here's your host,
Speaker 1: Mark webber.
Speaker 2: Tonight, I'm thinking about September. It's back to school term
Speaker 2: we use in the fashion industry to I guess call
Speaker 2: out the fact that this is the time of year
Speaker 2: that everyone goes back to school dates back to when
Speaker 2: you had to buy all those kids and rewardrobe everything.
Speaker 2: But everyone else ends the summer, starts to fall, thinks
Speaker 2: about their new wardrobe, thinks about what they're going to
Speaker 2: do with themselves for the rest of their life. Because
Speaker 2: everyone gets a chance to reboot and be whoever you
Speaker 2: want to be. We get a little more serious because
Speaker 2: when out on the beach, so it's back to school
Speaker 2: and lot going on. That's some things I wanted to
Speaker 2: talk about. The first of all is James Carville, the
Speaker 2: political pundit that you see on the Democratic TV. James
Speaker 2: Carvill interesting guys, unusual looking guy, but extraordinarily smart, and
Speaker 2: I always liked him. In fact, in fact, one of
Speaker 2: my most important speeches when I received the American Image
Speaker 2: Awards Man of the Year award, I used to quote
Speaker 2: from him, and it was I was talking about the
Speaker 2: industry and how thankful I was to be, and I said,
Speaker 2: I get paid for my heart, but I throw in
Speaker 2: my head for free. And it became a thing with me.
Speaker 2: I liked it and I really felt good, and it
Speaker 2: came from James Carville. Anyway, the other night I saw
Speaker 2: him being interviewed on Hannity, and even though he's from
Speaker 2: the left, he's always been fair politically. When he was
Speaker 2: interviewed with Hannity, he was asked about the border, and
Speaker 2: he said he agreed that the Biden administration and the
Speaker 2: old Democratic Party did not handle the border properly, that
Speaker 2: we had a problem, it needed to be fixed, that
Speaker 2: we had the wall, it was in good shape, and
Speaker 2: it was a mistake the way they handled it. But
Speaker 2: then when they got into the economy, he slanted the truth.
Speaker 2: And it really really bothered me because I know how
Speaker 2: smart he is, and he said Biden inherited a horrible
Speaker 2: economy and he fixed it. Let's be honest. Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: when he was president, in his first three years, built
Speaker 2: the strongest economy in the United States in fifty years.
Speaker 2: We were leading the world. Everyone was thriving, wages were
Speaker 2: going up, Unemployment was non existent, everyone was doing well,
Speaker 2: everyone was spending, everyone was happening. His policies worked, and
Speaker 2: then COVID COVID, we closed the country. How could the
Speaker 2: economy do well? The whole business world was shut down.
Speaker 2: People were locked in their homes. So, of course, by
Speaker 2: the time Biden became president and the country opened up,
Speaker 2: there was a boom time in the United States. There
Speaker 2: was pent up demand. People were excited to get out
Speaker 2: of the house, they were excited to go out and eat,
Speaker 2: they were excited to go anywhere. And Biden inherited this demand.
Speaker 2: There's an extraordinary time. Can't give Biden credit for that.
Speaker 2: If he inherited the worst, he inherited this demand also.
Speaker 2: So when I listened to James Carville, I was very disappointed.
Speaker 2: Come on, James Carvill, We're in enough trouble without you
Speaker 2: putting spin anyway. Politics aside, It's back to school. I
Speaker 2: want to talk about business. I want to talk about
Speaker 2: all the brands in my industry. I've been shopping a lot,
Speaker 2: going in stores looking what's going on. Tell you the truth,
Speaker 2: I'm unimpressed. First of all, it's mostly spring merchandise in
Speaker 2: the stores. They haven't transitioned to fall quickly enough, and
Speaker 2: I don't know what's go going on. It's September. People
Speaker 2: don't need short sleeve shirts. People want sweaters. They want
Speaker 2: to see what's new. I'm looking at these stores and
Speaker 2: I'm wondering who's who, What's what I often think about,
Speaker 2: and I talk about the difference between Asia, Europe and here.
Speaker 2: The big companies in Asia, like here, very often were
Speaker 2: started by families. There was a Toyomenka family or a
Speaker 2: Toyota family. There are people who built these companies and
Speaker 2: the Asians in general, I spent a lot of time
Speaker 2: in Hong Kong and China. These are entrepreneurs who started
Speaker 2: companies with a goal that they would build something and
Speaker 2: pass it on to the next generation, who'd pass it
Speaker 2: on to the next generation, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2: And you would be working with the second, third, or
Speaker 2: fourth generation of entrepreneurs in a family. And therefore they
Speaker 2: were always worried about legacy. Each succeeding family CEO or
Speaker 2: president to hand off their healthy company to their son
Speaker 2: or daughter and on and on, and that's what they
Speaker 2: cared about. So they were making decisions for the long
Speaker 2: term and making decisions based on what was best for
Speaker 2: the business, and I had to applaud them for that.
Speaker 2: In the European sector, when I got to luxury, I
Speaker 2: learned a lot about luxury companies. They were all about strategy,
Speaker 2: all about identifying what a brand represents. If I asked
Speaker 2: you what created Hermez, I don't know if you would
Speaker 2: realize that Hermez were really people that built saddles and
Speaker 2: bridles for horses. So when you see them, there's always leather,
Speaker 2: there's always accessories that have something to deal with the horse,
Speaker 2: to stir up some of the other intricacies of horse riding.
Speaker 2: But Hermez was built on coach building, whereas my friends
Speaker 2: at VITONE were built on travel and luggage, and while
Speaker 2: they both expanded their businesses dramatically, they never forgot what
Speaker 2: their legacy was and how they would continue the luxury business.
Speaker 2: My friends at lv I learned never put merchandise on sale.
Speaker 2: They're all about strategy, and the strategy at LV Louis
Speaker 2: Vuton is that when someone invests in one of the handbags,
Speaker 2: the value of it will never go down, and therefore
Speaker 2: they made determinations never to have sales in louisviutone merchandise.
Speaker 2: So they watch their inventories very closely, and if in
Speaker 2: fact they have a problem, their inclination, if they don't
Speaker 2: give their own workers a chance to buy it, is
Speaker 2: to destroy it rather than to have sales, but the
Speaker 2: key to their longevity was positioning it forever understanding. No
Speaker 2: matter what they do, they had to understand the DNA,
Speaker 2: never veer from it, build upon it, but never forget
Speaker 2: what they represent and stay true to themselves. Man of
Speaker 2: them be it. You know, it's interesting. My favorite luxury
Speaker 2: story is not about luxury, it's about Costco. I'll never forget.
Speaker 2: I was at dk and Y, which was owned by
Speaker 2: elvim Age, Leuviton, Mobo Hennessy, and I was selling Costco.
Speaker 2: I was selling them jeans. Jeans was the entry into
Speaker 2: DKNY that the least expensive, most successible product to anywhere
Speaker 2: in the world for DKY or Donna Karen was the Genes.
Speaker 2: They were twenty five to thirty five dollars at the time,
Speaker 2: and when you look at DKY and Donna Karen, you
Speaker 2: know Donna was making dressers that could be ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: So the entry into luxury was through Genes and Costco
Speaker 2: had a huge interest and we had a great, great
Speaker 2: jeans team at the time. There were two women who
Speaker 2: ran the DKY jeans business, Christa and Gale, both consummate professionals,
Speaker 2: and we built a nice business. Thirty million dollar business.
Speaker 2: One day, I get a call from someone in corporate.
Speaker 2: Why are you selling Costco? I said, because they pay
Speaker 2: us a lot of money. We make a lot of money.
Speaker 2: The merchandise comes in on pallets, they put it out
Speaker 2: on a table. In three weeks it's gone. Nobody remembers
Speaker 2: it was there except when they see it. They want
Speaker 2: the brand and that customer will pay for it, and
Speaker 2: it was an extraordinary business. They said, well, we don't
Speaker 2: want you selling Costco anymore. We don't think it's right
Speaker 2: for the brand. And I said, can I remind you
Speaker 2: that one of the largest companies within the group is
Speaker 2: wine and Spirits, and the largest user of wine and
Speaker 2: champagne in the United States was Costco. Well that's different.
Speaker 2: We don't believe that your brand belongs in Costco. I said,
Speaker 2: you know, we're going to lose a lot of profit
Speaker 2: if we pull out of there, because it's a nice,
Speaker 2: clean business. We respect the customer, we respect the way
Speaker 2: the merchandise is handled. Are you sure. We're sure. We
Speaker 2: don't think it's in keeping with the brand at the time,
Speaker 2: so we pulled from Costco. They understood. They were upset.
Speaker 2: We had a relationship with them as a company because
Speaker 2: of wine and spirits, and we moved on a few
Speaker 2: months later, We're in our financial meetings in Paris in
Speaker 2: the boardroom and I share with them the results of
Speaker 2: the company. And I took a huge hit because we
Speaker 2: gave up the thirty million dollars in Costco. And I said, well,
Speaker 2: why'd you do that? And I said, because I was
Speaker 2: told to. And then they started whispering on the other
Speaker 2: side of the corporate table. And after looking at the results,
Speaker 2: they said to me, can you get it back? And
Speaker 2: I scratched my head. You know, it's June, we're having
Speaker 2: financial meetings. The big season is Christmas, in New Year's
Speaker 2: and a holiday. How are we going to do this?
Speaker 2: And I looked at christ and I looked at Gail,
Speaker 2: and I said, can we get it back? They said,
Speaker 2: we can try, and I saw it. These two women
Speaker 2: do something that was incredibly exciting. How they went back
Speaker 2: with their relationships and the right spin and we made
Speaker 2: an era and we want to be Costco forever. Blah
Speaker 2: blah blah. Whatever they sell, and we recreated the business
Speaker 2: and we pretty much picked up everything we lost. But
Speaker 2: generally speaking, I explained to you how European companies think,
Speaker 2: and how do we Americans think. We're more about survival.
Speaker 2: We're not about what the future is. We don't stand
Speaker 2: up long for what we believe in. We don't man up.
Speaker 2: We just do what the next quarter will say. And
Speaker 2: I'm very concerned about that. Now. There are some companies,
Speaker 2: of course. You look at Torry Birch and American Company. She's
Speaker 2: protecting her brand. You look at Ralph Lauren, he's protecting
Speaker 2: a brand. But by and large, most of the brands,
Speaker 2: and even designers to a degree, But most of the
Speaker 2: brands that are made in America. When I say made
Speaker 2: in American, I mean American origin, not necessarily manufactured, are
Speaker 2: playing games with their distribution. They're making decisions for the
Speaker 2: brand that may or may not be right. And a
Speaker 2: lot of these American people now are changing the future
Speaker 2: of our industry. They're changing what the brands represent. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of investment banking in the peril and luxury sector,
Speaker 2: and they're in it for one reason, the right reason,
Speaker 2: I think, to make money. But they're in and they're out.
Speaker 2: They buy companies, they pump them up, they sell them,
Speaker 2: and they move on. But companies are supposed to be
Speaker 2: there forever, they're supposed to last. To test the time
Speaker 2: and sometimes making financial decisions instead of long term strategic
Speaker 2: decisions doesn't work. So I am afraid of the future
Speaker 2: for our industry when I sit here and talk. Now,
Speaker 2: the good news is we all need clothes. So what
Speaker 2: is the future of our business? I can tell you
Speaker 2: all the luxury companies have their own retail stores. You
Speaker 2: see their names above their door. They have full control
Speaker 2: of their assortments and they're building a future. Then there
Speaker 2: are other brands that might not necessarily be luxury, but
Speaker 2: are doing the same things. You look at Lacoste their
Speaker 2: own doors, they name them of the doors. They have
Speaker 2: their own stores, look at guests, same thing. They have
Speaker 2: their own stores. They may also have shops within other
Speaker 2: department stores that they feel the right level of department
Speaker 2: store to sell the price points and to the customer
Speaker 2: who'd be interested in their brands. You walk into Bloomingdale's,
Speaker 2: it's a great store. It's a compilation of brands. I
Speaker 2: love Theory. They're one of my favorites. They always are
Speaker 2: in Bloomingdale's. They look good. They have their own shops.
Speaker 2: All Saints, which began as a great retail concept you
Speaker 2: could find wholestsale or in department stores. Bloomingdale's, Macy's looking
Speaker 2: great in their own image with their own stores. They're
Speaker 2: doing the right thing to protect the brand, but overall
Speaker 2: I'm worried about the future of the brand and the
Speaker 2: future of retail is omni channel. Now, if I asked
Speaker 2: most of you out there what is omni channel, you
Speaker 2: wouldn't realize what omni channel is and what omnichannel is
Speaker 2: is a combination of all the above with the added
Speaker 2: benefit of e commerce. There's no question buying online, sitting
Speaker 2: on your phone at home shopping is huge and is
Speaker 2: having a major impact on the results of retail stores alone.
Speaker 2: But I will tell you e commerce online shopping is retail.
Speaker 2: It's just in a ethereal store. It doesn't exist except online.
Speaker 2: My favorite story again is when I learned about omni
Speaker 2: channel goes back to Macy's, who, in myself, is one
Speaker 2: of my favorite stores in the world. I'm concerned their
Speaker 2: financial results have not been good. They just missed their
Speaker 2: numbers on the last quarter, and everyone's talking gloom and
Speaker 2: doom again and they have the hawks surrounding them looking
Speaker 2: to buy it and turn it into a real estate venture.
Speaker 2: And I need Macy's. We all need Macy's. Matter of fact,
Speaker 2: if I was Macy's, all my ads, I'd put it
Speaker 2: in whatever newspaper, whatever online availability is, even on TV,
Speaker 2: I would list the brands because that's what they are,
Speaker 2: and that's what i'd sell against because nobody else can
Speaker 2: do that. But Macy's omni channel goes back to I
Speaker 2: moved into a new house and my wife and I
Speaker 2: needed dishes China they call it, but dishes and where
Speaker 2: to buy them? And I went to Bloomingdale's. They had
Speaker 2: a nice assortment, and I went to various different stores.
Speaker 2: I even went to bed Beth and Beyond at the
Speaker 2: time didn't have a nice assortment. I went into Macy's
Speaker 2: and they had an incredible assortment. And at the time
Speaker 2: what really excited me was Martha Stewart. They had these
Speaker 2: beautiful white dishes and twenty different choices of shape and size.
Speaker 2: They were relatively inexpensive. But my wife wasn't with me,
Speaker 2: so I called her on the cell phone and I
Speaker 2: put it on FaceTime and I let see what I
Speaker 2: liked and whether she liked it, and she said, I
Speaker 2: love it. So that weekend we went to the Macy
Speaker 2: store in our neighborhood and there was a great woman
Speaker 2: working there, and she took us through and I showed
Speaker 2: her the video that I had taken the things. She liked.
Speaker 2: She took me into Martha's Stewart and she's plained, we
Speaker 2: got all of this for you. I said, how am
Speaker 2: I going to carry a setting for twelve of all
Speaker 2: the stuff? She says, You're not going to carry anything.
Speaker 2: We're going to send it all to your house. I said,
Speaker 2: how's that going to work? She said, well, first of all,
Speaker 2: we have five hundred stores, and we look at our
Speaker 2: five hundred stores as warehouses, not just stores where you
Speaker 2: can come in shop. We will get this plate or
Speaker 2: that plate, or this fork or that fork or whatever
Speaker 2: it is, the glass you want, we will go into
Speaker 2: our system, and if it takes five or ten different
Speaker 2: stores to put the assortment together, it's all going to
Speaker 2: be mailed to central locations and they in turn will
Speaker 2: ship them to you and you'll have full sets. And
Speaker 2: I have to tell you he worked exactly as she
Speaker 2: said it would. We got full service for twelve. It
Speaker 2: came in three different shipments from three different stores. But
Speaker 2: it came in perfectly. And that, my friends, is omni
Speaker 2: channel the inline experience in the store to look at
Speaker 2: it all, and then the shipment's coming from either the
Speaker 2: stores or from their warehouses for in commerce brilliantly. And
Speaker 2: that's the future of retail. When I worry about the future,
Speaker 2: back to school and this is such an important peak time,
Speaker 2: I know that we only need clothes, We eat on dishes,
Speaker 2: we wear shoes. Life will be fine as long as
Speaker 2: companies take care of themselves. Back in a minute, Always
Speaker 2: in Fashion spent a lifetime of my career building the
Speaker 2: van Usen brand, and I am so pleased that they're
Speaker 2: back with us now. Talking about suits, men were dressing
Speaker 2: up again and it's become cool to wear a suit.
Speaker 2: Suits can be worn on multiple occasions in multiple ways.
Speaker 2: You could wear a suit formally to go out at
Speaker 2: night or to an event. You wear a suit to
Speaker 2: the office with or without a tie. If you look closely,
Speaker 2: now fashion trends, suits are being worn with turtlenecks or
Speaker 2: mark next. The choices are endless and every one of
Speaker 2: them looks right. You could really really look the part.
Speaker 2: I believe that packaging yourself is as important does the
Speaker 2: product shoe package and wearing a suit is one of
Speaker 2: those things that make men look their best. Venuesing invented
Speaker 2: a new idea. It's called the cool Flex suit. It's
Speaker 2: been engineered with stretch technology, giving you the most comfortable
Speaker 2: fit and mobility. It's wrinkle resistant fabric, it's cool moisture wicki.
Speaker 2: It makes it perfect for all occasions. As we discussed
Speaker 2: just now, this new style of looking sharp while feeling
Speaker 2: cool and comfortable is amazing and I'm so excited that
Speaker 2: the van using company is involved in this new technology
Speaker 2: and is embracing the whole idea of dressing up. Let's
Speaker 2: not forget venues and made its name with dress shirts.
Speaker 2: It's only proper that the suit business follows strongly in
Speaker 2: its way. You can find van Ues in cool Flex
Speaker 2: Men's stretch suits at jcpenny are online at jcpenny dot com. Guys,
Speaker 2: they're great. You should go look at them. D k
Speaker 2: and Why Donna Karen, New York. Donna Karen began a
Speaker 2: career as one of the finest, most successful, powerful women
Speaker 2: in the fashion industry. She developed a collection aimed at
Speaker 2: the luxury market for women on the go, women who
Speaker 2: were powerful in their workplace, women who had lives that
Speaker 2: extended beyond the workplace, and her clothes went from day
Speaker 2: and to night. An extraordinary collection. But the interesting thing
Speaker 2: Donna Karen had a young daughter, and she had friends,
Speaker 2: and they couldn't afford to buy the Donna Karon collection.
Speaker 2: And Donna invented DKNY Donna Aaron, New York. It's an
Speaker 2: offshoot of the Donna Karen collection. The same concept a
Speaker 2: lifestyle brand. Now we talk about lifestyle brands, what does
Speaker 2: that really mean? Simply what they say, there are brands
Speaker 2: that follow you throughout your lifestyle. You get up in
Speaker 2: the morning, you start to get dressed Donna Karen decaann
Speaker 2: why as intimate apparel, as hosiery, as all those products.
Speaker 2: You're getting dressed for work. You get accessorized shoes, handbags,
Speaker 2: and it takes you through the day. The remarkable thing
Speaker 2: about DK and Y clothes for work, they work into
Speaker 2: the evening. The dresses, the suits, the pants, the sweaters,
Speaker 2: the blouses, extraordinary clothes at affordable prices that go from
Speaker 2: day in tonight. Part of your lifestyle is active. You
Speaker 2: have weekends, you have events, you participate in sports. Donna
Speaker 2: Karen's Casual Clothes did that under the DK and Y label,
Speaker 2: a vast array of casual sportswear that make women look
Speaker 2: great as they navigate their busy lives. Whether you going
Speaker 2: to soccer games for your children, or whether you're going
Speaker 2: out to the movies, whatever you want to do, dkn
Speaker 2: Y Jeans, dc HY sportswear is there for you. That's
Speaker 2: what a lifestyle brand is. And I need to mention
Speaker 2: DKY active Wear, which is extraordinary, the leggings, the sports bras,
Speaker 2: the sweats. You can wear DKY active wear certainly in
Speaker 2: the gym, certainly when you're working out at home, and
Speaker 2: certainly if you want on the street, because it's that
Speaker 2: well done. DK why is nothing short of exceptional And
Speaker 2: why shouldn't it be because it was born from the
Speaker 2: idea of luxury made affordable for women of America. DK
Speaker 2: and Why a true lifestyle brand that takes you from
Speaker 2: day and tonight, from the week into the weekend. DCN
Speaker 2: Why you can find DKNHY and Macy's DKY dot com.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Always in Fashion. Here's your host, Mark Webber.
Speaker 2: It's September, the summer's ending. I find very depressing the
Speaker 2: weather is starting to change, but it's still beautiful. But
Speaker 2: I grew up in the luxury fashion and retail world,
Speaker 2: and this is back to school. September is a huge
Speaker 2: month for cleansing palace, to starting anew to bringing in
Speaker 2: a whole new range of merchandise and starting life all over.
Speaker 2: This week, Men's Fashion Week, this week, the Men's Open
Speaker 2: this week, big for the baseball season. Everything is big
Speaker 2: and some but us back to school. And I started
Speaker 2: thinking about it, and I've been very interesting in shopping.
Speaker 2: And I talked before about some strategic ideas, and I
Speaker 2: remembered that in the companies that I work for, the
Speaker 2: strategy wasn't called I'm the channel back in the day,
Speaker 2: but we had multiple channels of distribution. We had our
Speaker 2: sales to department stores. We had sales to the off
Speaker 2: price market when we had surplus, but department stores and retailers.
Speaker 2: The stronger they got, the more powerful became, the more
Speaker 2: pressure they put on us in our ability to make money.
Speaker 2: First thing they did was find ways that we could
Speaker 2: bolster their margins, their profits versus our own. There's no
Speaker 2: secret to that. They make more, we make less. Then
Speaker 2: for their own survival, they determined. Each of these retailers,
Speaker 2: every single one of determined and got involved with what
Speaker 2: we call channel conflict, that they wanted their distribution of
Speaker 2: their store protected as the exclusive customer and purveyor of
Speaker 2: your product. So if you were Macy's and you had
Speaker 2: a good business with Calvin Klein, they didn't want you
Speaker 2: competing with them in Belk department stores. Macy's in North Carolina, well,
Speaker 2: they didn't want you to compete with Dillard's in Texas.
Speaker 2: These retailers determined that by having exclusivity they had a
Speaker 2: better future. Whether I agree with it or not, I
Speaker 2: was there when we realized we had to protect ourselves
Speaker 2: and the outlet business was starting to grow. These were
Speaker 2: stores that allowed the manufacture, the brand owner, the designer
Speaker 2: owner to sell directly to the consumer in a different
Speaker 2: channel of business. Two things are happening. One, you're getting
Speaker 2: first chance to buy surplus. It could be end of season,
Speaker 2: it could be a prior season. Doesn't make it bad merchandise.
Speaker 2: They just made too much. Some of it has got awful,
Speaker 2: ugly true. But black socks are black socks, white shirts
Speaker 2: are white shirts. Navy blazer and navy blazes, and on
Speaker 2: and on and on and on. Ralph Lauren Polo's filled
Speaker 2: with thousands of Polo shirts. They're not surplus, they're made
Speaker 2: for the store. So one thing is surplus. You get
Speaker 2: a chance to buy surplus at a great price because
Speaker 2: they need to get rid of it. Fashion is not
Speaker 2: like fine wine. It doesn't improve with age. The other
Speaker 2: is made for you're making products that you know the
Speaker 2: consumer wants. It could be a sweatshirt at Nike. It
Speaker 2: could bear golf shoes and Nike. It could be running
Speaker 2: shoes at Nike. For that matter. They make them for
Speaker 2: the store because they know how profitable the outlet store
Speaker 2: business will be. And without a middleman like a Mace's
Speaker 2: or a Dylid's or a TJ Max in between making
Speaker 2: their own product, they can afford to give you the
Speaker 2: disc it. And that's how outlet stores work. And all
Speaker 2: the products are tied to price points that they feel
Speaker 2: are reasonable and legitimate based on what you can find. Now,
Speaker 2: if you go to a Nike outlet, I don't think
Speaker 2: you'll find Jordan Nike. So manufacturers do cherry pick their assortments,
Speaker 2: but by and large, what they're doing is giving you
Speaker 2: a tremendous opportunity to see a full breath of a
Speaker 2: brand's assortment in products that you may or may not
Speaker 2: find elsewhere at always affordable, fair prices, and the fact
Speaker 2: that you're going to take time to get there, and
Speaker 2: the fact that you're going to spend money getting there,
Speaker 2: and you're going to give a day of your time
Speaker 2: shopping those malls. They give you great prices. So all
Speaker 2: said and done, this is what's on my mind. Back
Speaker 2: to school and take a break back in a moment.
Speaker 2: Always in fashion, then using, for over one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty years now, has been a mainstay in American fashion.
Speaker 2: This brand that was invented for dress shirts was given
Speaker 2: to coal miners when they exited the mills dirty and dusty.
Speaker 2: The Phillips Venues and Company Phillips families there to give
Speaker 2: them fresh new shirts that they could wear at home
Speaker 2: and feel their best. Over the course of time, venues
Speaker 2: and dress shirts grew and grew and grew to suit
Speaker 2: shirts and ties for the dress up, but now sportswear
Speaker 2: has become a dominant part of the venues and collection.
Speaker 2: You can find these products including sweaters, polos, quarter zips, trousers,
Speaker 2: and even the best of fashion has to be preserved.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I ever mentioned to you the
Speaker 2: advent of the men's necktie. There's nothing better in the
Speaker 2: men's necktie business than the business lunch because guys we
Speaker 2: go out, they'd have their lunch, they have their salads
Speaker 2: or their beef and potatoes, and snow stout about it.
Speaker 2: They would always stain their tie. And therefore the business
Speaker 2: grew and grew venues. And today doesn't want to make
Speaker 2: money on your hardships. They want to do it and
Speaker 2: prevent you from having to go through that. And they
Speaker 2: invented stained shield. It's a technology that was invented to
Speaker 2: protect your favorite items. The Stainshield collection provides extreme defense
Speaker 2: again water based stains by causing spills to beat up
Speaker 2: before they can be absorbed into the fabric. This collection,
Speaker 2: by the way, in addition to regular fits, is also
Speaker 2: often in all body sizes, including big and tall. You
Speaker 2: can find vanues and Stainshield and the great venues in
Speaker 2: styled sports were at Vanuesen dot com. That's Vanusen dot com.
Speaker 2: As one of the world's most celebrated fashion designers, car
Speaker 2: Lagafeld was renowned for his aspirational and cutting edge approach
Speaker 2: to style. His unique vision of Parisian shit comes to
Speaker 2: America through car Lagofeld Paris. He has women's collections, men's collections,
Speaker 2: ready to wear, accessory, shoes and bags. The fashion house
Speaker 2: Carlagofeld also offers a range of Watchers eyewear and premium fragrances.
Speaker 2: You can explore the car Lagofeld collection at car Lagofelparis
Speaker 2: dot com. But it's more than that, I for one,
Speaker 2: love to shop. I love going around and seeing what's
Speaker 2: happening and what catches my attention would make me feel
Speaker 2: good to wear Now. I don't wear the women's wear obviously,
Speaker 2: but I can appreciate it and they look amazing. If
Speaker 2: you want to look right, you want to have clothes
Speaker 2: that fits you well. You want to look like you're
Speaker 2: wearing something that's very expensive, that's exclusive for you and yours.
Speaker 2: You can find it at very affordable prices at Macy's
Speaker 2: Orcarlagofel dot Comparis. The women's ready to wear fashion is extraordinary,
Speaker 2: as well as the handbigs and the shoes, I for one,
Speaker 2: wear men's clothes. Unlike my appreciation of women's clothes. I'm
Speaker 2: a modern guy. I want to look current, I want
Speaker 2: to look the way I want to feel. I go
Speaker 2: out at night, I'm in black and carlago felt is
Speaker 2: my buddy. Calls are great, they fit great, and they
Speaker 2: have little tweaks and touches, whether it's a stripe on
Speaker 2: the sleeve or button at the neck or on the shoulder.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of details that go into Carlagofel because
Speaker 2: he's always been, he always had been one of the
Speaker 2: world's great designers, and this legacy and goes on and on.
Speaker 2: I can't speak enough about it except to say to you,
Speaker 2: you want to feel good about yourself. You want to
Speaker 2: know that you're dressing properly. You want to clothes that
Speaker 2: fits you well. Carl Lagafel, Paris at Macy's Orcarl Lagofel
Speaker 2: dot com.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Always in Fashion. Here's your host, Mark Weber.
Speaker 2: This is September. You ever realize that after the summer
Speaker 2: you're getting a new start at being whoever you are,
Speaker 2: whoever you are up to September, you could change. You
Speaker 2: can change the way you speak, to change your outlook
Speaker 2: on life. You could change the way you dress. You
Speaker 2: can change whatever it is to make a better you.
Speaker 2: In a fashion, luxury and retail business, we get a
Speaker 2: chance to change. One of the fascinating things about our
Speaker 2: industry is we're constantly changing. We're constantly reinventing ourselves. What
Speaker 2: other industry does it. Very few Apple makes one new
Speaker 2: phone a year. Car manufacturers make one model, they keep
Speaker 2: it for five or ten years. We are changing every minute.
Speaker 2: So September is a key pivotal point for change in industry,
Speaker 2: particularly ours. We get to think who we want to
Speaker 2: be and what we want to look like for that season,
Speaker 2: for the next few months, and it's an exciting time.
Speaker 2: The apparel luxury retail industry is staff with geniuses who
Speaker 2: could reinvent themselves and recome up with new ideas on
Speaker 2: a constant basis, whether it's color, style, opportunity fit, conceptually,
Speaker 2: we're a brilliant industry. September is the time for change,
Speaker 2: and we're about to change as well. We need to
Speaker 2: pick new leaders, whoever it is is new. Even our
Speaker 2: vice president will be new as a new leader. We
Speaker 2: know Trump, but he'd be new again. He hasn't been
Speaker 2: in office for four years. We have to make some
Speaker 2: right decisions. Got a lot of problems in this country.
Speaker 2: September is sprint time to election day. Please consider who
Speaker 2: you would think will make the best president. Not popularity counts.
Speaker 2: It's not historical, not this, not that Kamala Harris has
Speaker 2: her benefits, Trump has her benefits. They both have detriments.
Speaker 2: Let's make decisions based on what will make us a
Speaker 2: better country. That is a backdrop. It's back to school.
Speaker 2: Hope you enjoy tonight.