April 29, 2009
Thanks Everybody
Gee whiz, we just put up the blog last night and finished it with some of the art we had in the archive and I'm hearing from pals from all over. This is more than gratifying because I did spend some time putting the original blogs together and wanted them to have some information in them you would find amusing and maybe even helpful. So the initail blast from my friends in cyberspace is giving me a lot of motivation to press on and do more. You've been warned.
Thanks everybody.
PW
April 16, 2009
Fashion Shows…What’s right and what might be off with them?
I thought I might weigh in on fashion shows today. Each season we do what is called the "front of the house" for eight to ten fashion designers in New York. In layman's terms that means we coordinate all the invitations to the shows, the responses, seat them and handle the press interviews with the designers before and after the shows. It's labor intensive, as it requires literally hundreds of phone calls, seating meetings (each person has an exact seat at each show) ...
April 14, 2009
How Do We Travel In A Recession?
The answer to that is carefully...
Now look, I'm not a kid anymore and I'm 6'1" tall weighing in at 190 pounds. I go to the gym and while not obese I am not a small fella. After 35 years of business and personal travel I have "retired" from economy class with the exception of JetBlue, which I will take in a pinch if the flight is short, if I have to be somewhere fast and if the other airlines are price gouging. Otherwise it's business class for me all the way.
So ...
April 12, 2009
Can I Have Just One Luxury In These Times Please?
The fashion designer John Weitz (brilliant guy who never designed much but was a master of licensing a la Pierre Cardin) used to have a great catch phrase, "A gentleman should wear only one "fancy"" which was an arcane way of saying that a real guy shouldn't get all duded up if he was going to be well dressed.
So, if he had a bright tie on he wore it with a plain, say gray suit, he looked good and you saw the tie and that was it. If he wore a ...
April 10, 2009
Will Anybody Ever Pay Full Price Again?
In times gone by we have all bought stuff on sale, but if it was a real find and something we liked a lot that was a rarity. We got used to the idea of buying an okay leftover at a value...didn't love it, but hey, it was so inexpensive. Now the cream of any crop you can name in fashion, accessories, footwear or whatever can be yours at 60% off...today is solved, but what are we going to do about tomorrow?
I was in a terrific specialty ...
