Corporate Unis

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

11/09/09 - Monday

Shirt: Jos A Bank / Tie: Old Navy / Belt: GAP/ Pants: Claiborne

Clean look, mean color scheme

11/06/09 - Friday

Shirt: Abercrombie and Fitch/ Belt: GAP / Pants: GAP

Wore one of my favorite shirts today. It's not the best-fitting shirt in the arsenal, but I like the colors/pattern.

Kicking it, no shin guards

Don't worry, I tucked in the shirt before I traipsed through the office

Upper West Side, NYC - "I woke early this morning singing a new song"

Sunday, January 10, 2010

11/05/09 - Thursday

Shirt: La Chemise Club / Tie: Calvin Klein / Belt: GAP / Pants: Express

Said it before... Love the pants.

Shirt collar is a bit too tight though. Good shirt to wear on days I don't elect to wear a tie.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

11/04/09 - Wednesday

Suit: Jos A Bank / Shirt: Jos A Bank / Tie: Old Navy / Belt: GAP

Like this combination, which was paired with a suit this time.

Side note: I haven't seen funky/edgy Old Navy ties in a while and it had me thinking, could they have stopped offering such ties as a result of upper management's rocky breakup with (ex) lead designer Todd Oldham? Hmmm one can only speculate.

From the Business Week article "Old Navy May Still Be at Sea":

Although harnessing the power of a celebrity designer was by then common, few retailers had tried it the way Old Navy set out to. Usually designers put together a line of their own or create a one-time collection to get people talking. Either way, they are fairly isolated from the everyday workings of the company. Oldham, however, who traveled back and forth between New York and San Francisco, was supposed to inspire and motivate the designers in any way he saw fit. The idea of a well-known fashion figure hovering over the entire creative process at a retailer the size of Old Navy was an altogether different undertaking, one that would require finesse and tenacity.

Changing Old Navy's attitude toward design was going to be a challenge, especially for someone working part-time and without any direct authority or reliable means of persuasion. To spark designers' imaginations, Oldham created a library of fashion monographs, old magazines, and catalogs that reflected his aesthetic: bold, colorful, retro. He showed a marching band uniform, a varsity sweater; he combined a Fifties prom skirt with a ski sweater from the Seventies. "My ideas weren't supposed to go into the stores," Oldham says. "What inspires a designer might horrify a merchant. My goal was to inspire the designers to create something appropriate for the merchants."

But it quickly became clear that some of Old Navy's more literal-minded merchants were skeptical that the designers could interpret Oldham's ideas. "Right from the beginning, I sensed that Todd wasn't the right fit," says David Fox, who returned to Old Navy in November 2007 after a three-year absence specifically to work with Oldham. "As much as the company may want to be creatively driven, it hasn't ever been. It wasn't then. It isn't now. In order to be successful there, you have to understand that."