Banana Republic has always filled me with a mix of hope, despair and dread. Hope because the cool, crisp, modern, and attractive people in their ads work as intended: they attract. Whether engaged in happy plans in sunlit meeting rooms or harmonizing with contemporary artworks in white box museums, they suggest a happy world of productive teamwork in creative professions and culturally sophisticated socializing. Despair because the clothing … [Read more...]
About Aaron Mack Schloff
Aaron Mack Schloff writes about clothing and theater in New York City, and blogs at schloffshow.blogspot.com.
What are Stores for These Days?
April 2, 2008 | By
A few weeks ago, I was patrolling some of New York’s best multibrand men’s stores reporting a story that has now appeared in the New York Sun. Actually, since the story was first assigned back in December, I was re-reporting – all of the winter clothes I had first seen have now, to the retailers’ relief, left the building. New York should have more good ones than it does. I count a dozen, of which I chose half (the sixth, cut from my … [Read more...]
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