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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The following is an Encore presentation.
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This show is produced and hosted by Mark Webber.
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The show is sponsored by G three of Parow.
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The views expressed in the following program are those of
the sponsor and not necessarily the opinion of seven tenor
or iHeartMedia. Who is Mark Weber. He's a self made
business executive here to help you find your success from
the New York City projects to the Avenue Montaigne in Paris.
His global success story in the luxury world of fashion
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is inspirational.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
He's gone from clerk to CEO twice.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Mark his classic proof that the American dream is alive.
And well, here's your host of Always in Fashion, Mark Weber.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Mark Weber. Tonight, I want to talk about color, color
and business, color in life. Therefore, this show, being that
it's a business show, will be called the Color of Money.
Everything we do is in color. Nature, we are in color.
There's an abundance of colorful themes in our lives, the
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good things and the bad color our lives. Life is
like a rainbow. You need both the rain and the
sun to make the color. Have you ever gotten up
early and seen the sunrise or stayed late to see
the sunset. Our evenings lately have been amazing, the clouds
and the sky, the oranges, the colors, just amazing. Our
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colors come from life, green grass, red sunrises, yellow sun,
blue sky, blue oceans and seas, orange sunsets, black as night,
white as snow. The snow was a beautiful reminder this
week of color and nature in our lives. And let's
not forget what grows, because what grows grows in colors. Grapes, raspberries, oranges, roses, tomatoes, berries, apples,
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corn wheat, plums, avocados, lettuce all grow in color. There
are also descriptives used for coloring our lives. There are
also descriptives used for coloring in our lives. The sunset
paints the day, nature awakes its day in brilliant colors.
There's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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Life is like a sea of vibrant colors. Let's jump
in our language. There's color in our language, there are
color in our expressions. Let's give it some color. We
used to explain something in detail. You see their true
colors a statement of what someone really stands for. He's
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true blue, depicting honesty and loyalty. She's black or white,
there is no gray, signifying a steadfast broach to the
morals of life and a grounding that's so important. He's
a redneck. H Let's not called that anything but his style,
although it traces back to workers working in the field
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for physical labor and this sun making their next red.
She's telling a white lie, a lie, but just the
little one. Let's color outside the lines for those of
you who are rogues. Colors can define us and it
defines our mood. Let's talk about colors in our mood.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
It's good on who.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Looks good on Manos and.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
All the wall but darling and dormant. Yeah, blue. How
about when you say someone unfortunately is yellow illustrating cowardice.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I've got those yellow stains, No silly, yeah, Los Sanders.
Whence I went by and is a shot.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
It's always there.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I am not.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I've got those.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yellow stains, the yellow stains.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah, that's the cane mutiny. And they're talking about Humphrey
Bogoon for your mudo vi buffs. Let's get a little
bit more color. Let's get a little bit more modern
and talk about anger in the movies.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
What do you want to discuss now my favorite color.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
That's angry, Jack Nicholson, listen tonight. Out of respect for
the holiday season and the colors that are so plentiful,
I want to discuss color on this show. In fact,
I wanted to discuss in our business show color under
the guise of the color of money. Our money is green.
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Our business is done in green dollars. Our businesses are
recorded in red ink for losses and black ink for profits.
I should also tell you that all around the world
money is colorful. Some currencies use color to differentiate the values.
Green is one value, red, purple, blue, or black hole
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representing other denominations. Yes, we live in color. Even our personalities,
that in which is most personable to us and defines
us is often defined by color. He's colorful, hey, speaking
of colorful personalities.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Hi, Jesse Weber, Hello, Hello, Hello. You know who you
sound like tonight? You sound like Bob Ross. You know
who that is? That's the guy the Afro that would
paint all the time.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Oh my gosh, her learn how to paint. That's why
I'm just going to.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Use a nice little brush of red, a nice little
bush of blue. Actually, I'm not doing it justice let's
play a clip of him.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Let's just do a happy little painting the day. It's
such a it's such a beautiful day. We'll start with
a little touch of the thylow blue. We just use
the old two inch brush, tap little color into it.
Just pull a little color out and tap the brush
into it. That makes sure you got a nice even
distribution of color. See all the way through the bristles.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
See, I can't tell who's Mark Webber and who's a
bob rust to me?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
If that's what I said out, somebody over there locked
the windows. I'm going out.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Let's talk about color tonight.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I don't know is that a compliment. I don't like
the way that sounds.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
But anyway, I will tell you do make a compelling
case about color. So, considering the name of the show
is always in fashion, I was waiting for you to
mention that fashion is all about color. Actually, I must
tell you I love fashion. Colors always on my mind.
Every day I get dressed, I'm thinking about what I'm
gonna wear, what statement I want to make, and always, always,
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always what color I'm in the mood to wear. I
have to consider not only what I like, but what
will the camera like I can't wear as bright, extravagant
clothes as I would want.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Okay, okay, so you seem to care about fashion.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Oh of course I really enjoy You think i'd be
your co host on here if I didn't enjoy fashion.
I really enjoy clothes.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Let me ask you a different question. You think you're
good at pulling wardrobe together, mixing matching colors?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
No, I'm not good, I'm great.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Great. So you think you really no color?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Hmm. You're an expert, mister attorney is an expert in color.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Listen, you don't hold the franchise is the only human
being who understands fashion, let alone in our family.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Ah so now you're an expert.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I know dressing, I know color, I know all that.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Hmm. I gotta tell you, I was very, very hopeful
that you would say that. I got an idea. You
up for a game, Jesse?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Uh huh Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Told the listeners really like our games. You up for
a game, A game of color? Sure?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
This sounds interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Okay, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna play a
game of color. Now you're saying you're an expert, and
I want to see if you're an expert. So here's
what I'd like to do.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
It's a little bit of pressure.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Well you are, you're an expert.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah, okay, let's okay.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Here's what i want to do for those of you
out there. I'm about to take a pen and a
paper and keep track of this game. I'm going to
set up two columns, one on the left and one
on the right. The one on the left is a
question I'm gonna ask Jesse where he gets it right,
and the one on the left I'm going to leave
for the questions that he gets wrong. If you want
to play along, why don't you get a paper and
pencil and we'll do the same thing together. I'm gonna
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wait a minute on a night that we're talking color.
I'm always in fashion. Are you ready to play, Jesse?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Yes, sir, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That's the game we're gonna play. I'm gonna give you
color names and all you have to do is say
what color. It is simple, so it's gonna be probably. Okay. Okay,
let's do one just for a test so everybody sees
where we're going. You're ready? Tangerine orange? Reh?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Really right? You got it.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Okay, we go all right once again. Now let's start
keeping tracked.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
You ready, Yes, that doesn't count as a right one. No,
but then the right.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Now okay, first one emerald, yes, sage, sage, red, eh,
all right, that's so simple. Ah, show truce, Oh.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
My gosh, h.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Gray no blue, Ah, here's one incandescent. Right, I don't
have a clue. I'm not going to count.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
That's not even a real one.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
That's a color ruby, red, red, okay, very good, lapis.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Blue, Give me a minute.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Green Okay, I can give you a minute. But we've
got a lot of colors to go here, Kiwi green,
very good, jesse, mango, orange, oh, maroon, purple, well, burgundy, red,
ok peach, orange, passion, pink.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Wrong, that's red pink?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Well, which is it?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Passion?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Red?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Pink?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Okay? Red red? Give you a red like an elementary
school all right?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Blood red?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Okay? Moonlight white? Ah, black pine.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Just for the record, that one makes no sense.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Green okay, you're doing okay here? Uh? Camel tan okay,
seladdn blue green, cinnamon brown very good? Sell down, sounds
like a transformer. Cinnamon cinnamon brown. Okay, Tan, I give
you that cobalt, oh blue, very good, copper brown, rust okay,
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carl green, caral is green, pink orange, all right, raspberry red,
that's an easy one. That's easy. Black, gray, gray, sand tan, eggshell, white,
off white, white, flex.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Sea, I don't know, seeds.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
T futia, pink woo, that one. I thought we'd have
you on iris green blue, Kelly Mike pink, pink, pink,
Kelly's pink. Huh green, that's an easy one. Oh my gosh,
mauve gray, pink, liver, gray brown, let's see linen white,
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give you that one, white, tannish, okra green.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
It's a vegetable, so is that?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
You know what? I don't know?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
The mustard yellow?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Okay, pastel blue, wrong lights, I'm looking for lights, lights,
pearl color, pearls my game, keep going, pearl, ivory, off white.
I'll give you that one, okay. How about uh, sapphire.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Pink red, purple blue, salmon, you know, pinkish.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Right, sepia bluepia color and photographs you that yellowish color,
you know that's washed over.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
We're going to use a nass red and o tope
off white.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
No, what is it? It's it's like a deepish Tannish
teal blue, terra cotta blue, am brown, turquoise green blue.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
That's green, ultra marine, turquoise, ultra marine green blue.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Okay, I'll give you that one. Violet purple, good boy. Ready,
here's one for you, wisteria blue laughnd wow, okay, zephyra.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
You're making up words.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
I'm not purple deep blue. Okay, the last one I'm
gonna go. Wait, let me see. Yeah, that'll be the
last one. You're ready. Cordivin orange. You see this one
bothers me because cordivin is the color of burgundy penny loafers,
and you're supposed to be a fashion guy. So let's
look where we are on the game. You're ready, Yeah,
I'm hitting them up. On the right side, you got five, ten, fifteen,
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twenty five.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I got twenty five right And on the.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Wrong side you got ten fifteen twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Not bad when I fail?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Well for an expert, Well you got fifty out of
one hundred and two.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Is there a curve on this exam?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
This is in law school. Yeah, you failed for an expert,
miss the expert. That's the point.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I have to go. I have to I have to
go hang out with Crayola more.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
There's a point here, right. First of all, it's tougher
than your thoughts.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
It's a lot tougher than I thought.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Well, nothing in life is easy, and that's what we
have to take away and remember. And the point is
that color is not so easy, even in fashion. How
about in our lives and fashion as in all business
is about money and color and money. Tonight comes together
and Always in Fashion we're going to talk the color
of money. Be back in a minute.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
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Welcome back to it always in fashion. Here's your host,
Mark Webber.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
You can't help but be amazed that the color is
in the world. The sunrises, the sunsets, they're amazing. I
look forward to them. I stay up for them, or
I get up early. To look. But I am overwhelmed
by the amount of color all around us in this city,
just walking the stores. It's amazing point of time for us.
We're a business show, and I started thinking, of all things,
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the color of money. Let's talk about fashion and color
in business. Fashion is a business. It makes money, and
colors often of the reasons you make the money. There
are colors in fashion that are great money makers, and
they are colors that are losers. Let's start off with
a very important color. The number one fashion color is
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blue blue, and it is not a sad blue. The
number one color in fashion actually is navy blue. Blue
signifies traditional, it's comfortable. And I'll tell you the interesting
thing about traditional and fashion. There are two to three
times the amount of traditional people in this country than
modern forward people. Tradition is just that tradition. It shows
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a history, it shows a longevity, it shows a comfort level.
And everything you do and you walk into a Ralph
Laurence store right now and ask them what's going on
with color, they'll tell you, we're very excited. We have
navy blue right now. That's one of our important colors.
Navy blue is very, very predictable. That's another reason. It's
great in business. You just know if you do something
something in navy blue with colors that match navy blue,
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you're gonna make money doing it. Everything matches navy everything
except for brown shoes. I guess she had surprised. They
said that Jesse shocker.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
In fact, it's funny. We ran into somebody in the office,
grabbed us and said, look, look look at my shoes.
Black shoes, not brown shoes. You become a statement again.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
You go. Everybody knows I hate brown shoes with navy blue.
I was at a cocktail part of the other night.
Some guy came over, a very fashionable guy. He was
very proud. I wear Bruno Kuchinelli, I wear tom Ford,
and there he was with a gray suit wearing brown shoes.
I wanted to strangle him. I said, listen to me.
You can name drop, you can tell me about Couchannelli,
you can tell me about tom Ford. But they don't
wear brown shoes with tan. So what are you talking about.
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It's the best color car. What should I wear with
a gray suit? Black? You dell me, this is nobody
wears black. So my son was there, your brother justin
He looked at the guy, and he said tom Ford
wears black suits only, and he only wears them with
black shoes. So we shut that guy up. But the
point of the story is you need to be true
to yourself to thine own self be true. Remember, there
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are a lot of traditional people in the USA, and
therefore navy blue is an amazing color. Now, before I
leave all these guys wearing brown shoes with navy suits,
I want to play for your national anthem that sheep.
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You're all followers, you're all sheep. Lose the brown shoes.
I don't care what it does to our industry wearing
with brown. All right, we're on always in fashion, we're
talking color. I'm having a good time. Whether or not
we like color, it's all over everywhere. But my favorite
color is black. Black is my favorite color. Black is
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modern black as the evening. Black is dynamic and striking.
We must all admire black. It's limitless, like the night.
It keeps you guessing. It makes everyone more mysterious because
you can't see everything in black. That, in fact, is
what make black so attractive to so many people. You
can't see everything on you when you're wearing it. Black
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is one of the few colors that matches and highlights
and enhances every other the color that exists in the rainbow.
Black with red, silver, or gold ladies perfect any color
of course, white or gray. Black is the perfect backdrop
for any color you wear. You can lead with black
on top, or you can anchor any color with black
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as your pants or your skirt. Nothing beats, by the way,
black on black. Black should be the number one color
in fashion, but it's not because of its severity. Yes,
due to its severity, there are limitations. For example, you
don't wear black suits to work, unless, of course, you're
working for I suppose Tom Ford or Calvin Klein. It's
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just not business friendly. It's too severe. You would not
wear a black dress shirt to work for the same reason.
Yet at night in winter, wearing black is that's the answer.
Black allows men to blend into the night, and black
allows you women to stand out in the night. Black
is a statement that could be worn anywhere. There's a reason.
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Every woman's essential includes the LBD, the little Black dress,
one of my favorite things. Black tights with black shoes,
black sneak is perfect. Black skirt, black jacket, you look amazing. Yes,
you can wear to work as well, ladies, when there's
a new fashion color happening, what do they say, Oh,
brown is the new black? Or green is the new black? Nonsense?
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Black stands alone as black. There's only one black. Modern
contemporary is black. It's a money maker. On the color
of money. Tonight on Always in Fashion, Be back in
a minute.
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Speaker 2 (22:41):
Welcome back to it always in fashion. Here's your host,
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Colors all around us. It's a beautiful time of year.
The sky's a lit, the night's so bright and colorful.
What a great time to be out in the holiday
season looking at color. Because of all those colors, I
decided tonight to about color, and particular because it's a
business show, I'm talking about the color of money. There
are a number of colors that really mean money in
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the fashion business, navy and black. I talked about. It's important,
of course for color to you understand that while I'm
talking about best selling colors, there are bees and they're
best sellers. They're the colors that people wear most the
colors that you should be wearing if you want to
be successful in business. Now, just to finish up on
some of the real powerful colors. The whole family of
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tan and neutrals are huge, and the reason they're huge
is because they're neutral. They're not making a statement, unutil themselves.
They're really canvas really that you can paint upon the
colors of the rainbow that yu really suit you the
best for men khaki pants. I will tell you like
an off white sweat of the khaki pant will look great.
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But then I'll accessrize you and you won't a great.
Put you in a player of black shoes and a
black top coat. You look like a million dollars, but
you won't believe me. You wear your stupid brown shoes
and think you're cool. So I'm gonna move on. In ladies,
you know off white at Crew went to white ol match.
Together with a camel top coat, camel color boots, short
or high, beautiful leather bag, you'll look amazing. You know
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how colors of neutrals work together. A whole tan family
is a remarkable family of color. And then that brings
us to another other great color. I want to use
the words as someone we all know who's amazing at fashion,
Taylor Swift, and she says, and I quote, red is
such an interesting color to correlate with emotion because it's
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on both ends of the spectrum. On the one end,
you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation and something and
someone and all of that. On the other hand, you
got obsession, jealousy, anger, fear, anger, and frustration. Yes, red
is a passionate color, and yes, Taylor Swift, you get
it right. Red is a powerful color. Think about black
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with red killer, particularly out for the holidays. Amazing time, ladies,
red lipstick, red nails and shoes, red handbag. Oh my goodness.
Red is a winner at the box office, and it's
one of the most profitable fashioned colors of the year,
particularly this time of year. JESSEI what are you thinking
about all of this?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
I think red also comes in play in law, believe
it or not, really weere do you remember when Christian
Lubaton sued ysl Saint Laurent over red sold shoes.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
They do what you mention, I do.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Uh huh. They did a whole collection of monochrome footwear
and various colors, including red. They tried to protect the
right to use a red soule. In the end, after
going through a whole big legal battle, Christian Lubaton actually
has a trademark right to a red sole with a
contrasting color on top. So if you have a black
shoe with a red sole, they have trademark rights to that.
So if it's limited, but they have a right.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
So if I got that right, anybody wants to do
a red soul has to have a red shoe. Yeah,
all right, thank you, legal legal in the color red.
I think that's really really important. Having said all of this,
we're talking colors in the neighborhood, colors outside in the city,
and now we're talking the color of money and the
theme of our show tonight. Color has such an impact
on our lives and on our businesses and on you.
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But for the moment, there are a lot of losers
out there and a lot of losing colors. If you
think about it, you're getting dressed, okay, were you're going shopping?
After you covered? White, navy, gray, red, pink, light blue, tan?
What other color could you possibly need? Unless you're going
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out jogging you want to wear bright colors. Well, somehow
or another, the designers of America have figured out how
to pick losers out there. If you're wearing colors, then
the ones I just mentioned. All I could ask you
is why this is fashion dangerous? So now I want
to talk about some of the losers. I'm going to
tell you the worst color in fashion. You probably never
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even think about it. Okay, rust? Rust stinks in life?
Who wants something that's rusty. Rust is the worst color
in fashion. Every season, some designer tries to bring it
back and do something with it. I don't get it.
My favorite story I was working for one of my
companies and in it we had a season. It was
full and the guy puts together a line was a
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male guy puts together a line and in it, every
player has a color of rust. It's that ugly brown
color like rust on a car. So I look at
him and say, nobody wears rust. Why do we have
rust in every pat And he says no, they all
wear it. So I got angers nobody wears it. He says, yes,
they do. I said, okay, there are ten people in
the room. I said, you know what, I'm the boss. Guys,
(27:40):
hang with me a minute. Do me a favor. Let's
respect our designer here. Let's pick up our stuff, all
of us. I want to go downstairs. Let's go in
front of the building. I took ten people, including all
of the design team, to the front of the building.
We're standing there. There's a springtime working on fall. I said, okay,
from now on, for the next ten minutes, let's cover
and keep track of everyone who's wearing rust. When they
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walk by. I don't care if it's a tiny bit
of rust or a whole outfit and rust anything. We
stood in front of that store for ten minutes. Not
a single person walk by wearing rust. So I looked
at the designer and I said, what do you think
about it? Eah, you know it's the city. We go
back up to the office. I said to myself, this
guy gotta go. That is, in my opinion, the worst
color when it comes to colors, Jesse, what do you think?
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Can't I guess the next worst color?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Purple? Oh you can't feel like unless you're the joker,
you can't pull that one off.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Okay, let me tell you about purple. Purple is the
color of the gods. Purple is the color of royalty.
You look at that show The Crown. When she comes out,
she's wearing purple. It's the color of royalty. By the way,
The Crown is the best show I've ever seen on television.
It's on Netflix, It's in season two. It is the
best fashion of any show, and I recommend it. But
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purple is an amazing color. When someone decides to do purple,
you see it on the runway, you see it on
the models. You can't wait to go back to your
showrooms and develop purple. But purple has the unique property
that it's the only color in the world from the
time you started to the time you deliver it. It dies.
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It never makes it to success in the stores. Ever.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Remember the time that you wore a purple You used
to experiment in color. So we were in Las Vegas.
Maybe you're feeling adventurous. You decided to wear a purple
v neck sweater. And we're going towards the elevator. As
you press the button and a door opens, and it's crowded.
We couldn't get in. And as the door, I mean
the elevators packed with people, as the elevator doors closed.
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Right before they close, all you hear someone say is
purple and the doors closed. You know what that taught me? Yeah,
you stood out for all the wrong reasons.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Yeah, and which is a common theme of my show,
no question about it. And we'll come back to that
in a minute. But I I'd ask you right before
this on Always in Fashion. Here we are Jesse and
I talking about the color of money. We're talking about
those colors that work and those colors that stink from
I heaven. And what is the worst color ever? What
has incurred the greatest losses ever? Ever? Ever? What color
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you think that is?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Jesse, Well, it's actually my favorite color, but I don't
know if it's so good for fashion.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Green. Okay, I'm going to grant you green because you
have green eyes, and yes, green looks good on you.
But green has killed more people in the fashion industry
than anything else. There's four hundred shades of green. It
never ever works. Green is deadly, And I'll tell you
how you're supposed to look at it. When you're designing product,
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even if you're making Apple phones, you have ten people
walking in your store. You want to appeal to all
ten people. The color green appeals to three out of ten.
And only in baseball do you get ten million dollars
a year paycheck for batting three, and fashion you get killed.
And green is a terrible color because everybody thinks it
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works and it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Now I'm thinking if I own anything green. I own
two things that are green. Now I have to see
if I look good at them.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Okay, Well that's silly shoal collar sweater that should have
been navy. Yeah, you're right, you should think about it.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
It's holiday season. S okay, hater.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
All right, do you know what the biggest color in
the world is? Do you know what color? More people
are wearing than anything else right now in fashion. They're
wearing it in T shirts, They're wearing it in pants,
They're wearing it shoes, they're wearing it in jackets, they're
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wearing it in backpacks. It is the biggest color in
the world. You'll find it here, You'll find it in
the desert in Sahara, You'll find it everywhere. Do you
know what color that is? White? No? One more, guess
I'll give you a hint. You want to hint?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Military?
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Uh? Camouflage? Yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Everyone is wearing camouflage right now. It is a huge,
huge color. Even golfers are wearing camouflage. So I just
thought this was an interesting segment on how anything can
turn up and be successful. But what is the perfect color?
As we round down this whole subject, I'll tell you
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I'm going to take the words of Coco Chanel and
she said, the best color in the world is the
color that looks best on you. With that, we'll take
a break. Be back in a minute.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Always in fashion.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Done to. Karen began her career as one of the finest,
most successful, powerful women in the fashion industry. She developed
a collection aimed at the luxury market for women on
the go, women who were powerful in their workplace, women
who had lives that extended beyond the workplace, and went
from day in tonight. An extraordinary collection. But the interesting
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thing Donna Karen had a young daughter, and she had
friends and they couldn't afford to buy the Donna Aaron collection,
And Donna invented DK NY Donna Aaron, New York. It's
an offshoot of the Donna Karen collection. The same concept
a lifestyle brand. Then we talk about lifestyle brands, What
does that really mean? Simply what they say, there are
brands that follow you throughout your lifestyle. You get up
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in the morning, you start to get dressed Donna Karen
dcaan why as intimate apparel, as hosiery, as all those products.
You're getting dressed for work. You get accessorized shoes, handbags,
and it takes you through the day. The remarkable thing
about DK and Y clothes for work, they work into
the evening. The dresses, the suits, the pants, the sweaters,
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the blouses, extraordinary clothes at affordable prices that go from
day in tonight. Part of your lifestyle is active. You
have weekends, you have events, you participate in sports. Donna
Karen's casual clothes did that under the dk and Y label.
A vast array of casual sportswear that make women look
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great as they navigate their busy lives. Whether you going
to soccer games for your children, or whether you're going
out to the movies. Whatever you want to do, DK
and Y genes dk Y Sportswear is there for you.
That's what a lifestyle brand is. I need to mention
DKY Activewar, which is extraordinary, the leggings, the sports bras,
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the sweats. You can wear dk Y active Wear certainly
in the gym, certainly when you're working out at home,
and certainly if you want on the street, because it's
that well done. The quality of dk why is nothing
short of exceptional. And why shouldn't it be Because it
was born from the idea of luxury made affordable for
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women of America. DKY and Wire a true lifestyle brand
that takes you from day and tonight, from the week
into the weekend. Dcn Why you can find DCN Why
and Macy's DCNY dot com.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Welcome back to it Always in fashion. Here's your host,
Mark Webber.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
The world is a wash in color. It is so
extraordinary to be outside and walking around, walking to the
studio at night. The reds, the greens, the yellows, the lights.
It's remarkable. At this point, though, I want to talk
to you about color. I want to talk to you guys.
The gals you get it. You don't need my help
right now, but you guys, I want to make sure
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we talk about the color of money on tonight's show,
and how do we make money in business? And how
do we be successful in business? Well, one of the
things you have to always remember is the way you
package yourself for success. When you get dressed for work.
If your uniform needs to be a suit, I will
allow you only two colors for your wardrobe. You can
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wear wear navy or you can wear gray suits. Now
I'll give you a break. There are different shades of navy,
some darker than the others, but stay navy. And in gray,
there are charcoal grays all the way to light grays.
As long as they're gray, you have my permission. But
there are rules when it comes to you getting dressed, guys,
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I want you to fit in. Early in this show,
Jesse made fun of me for the one time I
wore a purple sweater, and people will laughing at me.
I don't want people laughing at you. In business. You
wear your navy suit, your gray suit, wear a white shirt,
maybe a light blue shirt, and maybe, just maybe, if
you know what you're doing, a light gray shirt. And
just to keep it simple, navy tie, gray tie, black tie.
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That's it. That's all you can wear. And if you
do that, you'll be successful. You will look great and
you will win at work, except if you wear brown shoes,
because then you look like a fool, like a follower
and a sheep. You don't need to do it, trust me,
do the right thing. I'll tell you a couple of
(37:05):
other quick little secrets on how you guys should get
dressed for work. Pocket squares. I think it looks like
you're trying too hard unless you really know how to dress.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
I disagree, disagree, disagree. Pocket squares are so cool. They're
the refined gentlemen. You don't have to wear a crazy
pocket scare, but a nice little slit white pocket square
looks great.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Pocket square is for a refine guy who knows how
to put it all together. Now, if you're wearing a
white shirt with a navy suit, what colored pocket square
you're gonna wear?
Speaker 4 (37:38):
What color tie?
Speaker 3 (37:39):
You tell me?
Speaker 4 (37:40):
White pocket square?
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Okay, I'm looking at you tonight and you're looking pretty
fancy with your light blue shirt and your patterned pocket square.
That's light blue, navy, baby navy looks good. So you're
okay with pocket square? Oh? Absolutely, all right? Because Jesse
says so, and I know they look right. If you
are right, you know how to accessorize in dress, I'll
give it to you. Now. That comes to mention of
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the knot for your tie. I believe in small half wines.
I like small knots. I don't want to see your
not looking bigger than your head. And a lot of
people do that, talk about amateurs. What do you think
about that.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
One, Joh, I'll agree with you on that one. I
don't like a big knot either, small knot. It's very
classic Verse sixties.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
It's very carry grant. Everything he did was right. Yeah, okay,
we agree on that one. There's a lot of talk
and a lot of guys wearing sneakers with suits. What
do you think about that?
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Ugh, I'm not a huge fan of that one. I
see a lot of celebrities they look great. It's funny.
Could do a pan down, start with the hair, to
the face, to the suit, to the pants and it
all looks great, and then down to the sneak sneakers.
I'm not sure I agree with that one.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Well, if you're a celebrity making anywhere between a million
and twenty million dollars a movie, I suppose you could
do whatever you want because you don't need to worry
about your career all that much. But if you're in
business working around trying to get success, so you've got
to look the you gotta wear your black shoes. I'll
let you wear loafers or tie ups. One of my
favorite pet peeves no socks. What we think about that?
(39:08):
With business stress?
Speaker 4 (39:09):
What happens if you have really good skin, your feet
look good, your tan.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
I throw up looking at you.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Okay, I don't know, it depends depends. I'll say that
one depends.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Okay. Out there being that the show is called Always
in Fashion with your host Mark Webber, you are not
allowed to go to the office without socks. Period. Now,
if it is spring and summer, and if you're wearing
boat shoes with a pair of khaki pants, you have
to wear socks. Okay, that's it. I don't want to
see your skin. It doesn't make sense. And with those
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few simple tips, I think you would be successful at
work on the color of money on always in fashion,
with color all around us, in fashion, in business, in life.
I just told you, blend in. You will be great.
You will be successful in business, will be in a.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Moment, always in fashion.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
My favorite brand has always been ISOD. My company at
one time bought that brand. The CEO of the company
handed it to me and said, you better make it work.
And I put everything in my career to make Eyesod
work and I fell in love with that brand, and
to this day it is one of the most exciting
endeavors I've ever got involved with. Isod is an incredibly
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strong golf brand. If you play golf, if you play
tennis for that matter. They make a great polo shirts.
I mean great, They're fit perfect. The material is unique
because it's a PK fabric that waffle weave you see,
and it's made of a blend of cotton and microfiber
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that allows you to stretch, and very often they are
treated with solar protection as well, so they stretch, they're comfortable,
and they breathe well. And one thing about Isaac they
always fit. They'll never tug on you. You put it in
your waist that they'll fit you great. The colors, patterns
are sensational. Now I will also tell you Isaac makes
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great shorts and great golf pants. You're a golf friend.
You want to look good. You don't't have to think
about how do I look. You want to think about
how you play, not how you feel. Isazad is the
brand for you. I know I was there when it
was created. The strategy behind that brand is brilliant. That's
one of my favorite brands. While I talk about it,
I should tell you about the man's sportswear. ISOD wasn't
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enough being a golf brand. It wasn't enough being just
great polo shirts with logos, without logos. Incredible brands and
story and history. Isaad makes salt weather programs. They have
great printed woven shirts, short sleeves. They look excellent with collars,
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excellent with shorts, excellent with cotton. Pants of which they
also make this whole salt order relaxed line from Isaac,
whether it be foleee, cotton sweaters, knit polos, woven shirts
and pants of a range of colors and fabrics. And
here's the thing, Ison is affordable. Everyone listening to me
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talk about this brand can afford to buy it and
know that there are a lot of other brands that
also have a look like isid Although I don't believe
it's fun as isond is. The brand has a lot
of energy in it, but at the price points no
one can compete. You can find Isyesa at your leading
retailers and online at Izon dot com. Talk to you later, guys,
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and I help you by telling you if you were
eyes on, you're gonna look great. Van Usen actually the
name Venuesen. First time I heard it, I thought was
an old man's company. I was in an interview and
I was being offered a job to work and that
I said, it's old man's company. And the headhunter who
is recruiting me said, you're an idiot. He said, they're
a public company, one of the world's great shirt makers.
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And if in fact you feel they're old, that's why
they want young people like you Mark to change the
company and to bring it into the next century. And
lo and behold, I joined them. I put my heart
and soul in that company. I did everything I can
to participate in making it one of the world's great brands,
and it is. If you look at Van using they
called sportswear, I don't understand the name sportswear. I don't
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understand neckwear when you're talking about ties. I don't understand
the name hosiery when you're talking about socks. I'm not
sure I understand the name sportswear when you're talking about
men's clothing. Well, men's clothing is complicated because that in
the retail venue means suits and sport codes. Having said that,
Van used in sportswear, shirts, sweaters, knitwear amazing. Men use
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it as a modern approach to fashion that appeals to
a broad base of Americans. First of all, it's affordable.
You find it in stores that you visit that you
could afford to participate it. You could buy multiple items
that all coordinated together. Them primary colors start with black
and tan and gray and navy. They're all salable. They
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make sense. The knitwear in the spring of the year,
amazing golf shirts, amazing polar shirts in the fall of
the year, whether it's polar fleas or sweaters. Then use
It has a modern approach to fashion. You buy the pants,
the dress, shirts, the suits, the neckwear. But in particular
I'm talking about the coordinated collection sportswear in venues. The
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styling is perfect, the fits a generous, the design to
make you feel comfortable. Not only aren't your body by
the fit, but in your head? Then Using sport collections
are one of my favorite to this day. And believe me,
I'm involved when I see the lines. If I don't
like them, I call the principles of the company and say.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
What are you doing? But I don't have to do
it because that taste level is right. If you want
to buy affordable men's clothes that look right, if you're modern,
you want to get dressed for the day and look
your part, you want to go out at night, van
Using will work for you. I am supporting and recommending
you go see van Using sports J C. Penny or
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online at your favorite stores. Van Using a brand that
has always been with me and I'll always have a
soft spot in my heart for it.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
Welcome back to it always in fashion. Here's your host,
Mark Webber.
Speaker 3 (45:26):
I want to talk about true colors. I want to
talk about those things that revolve around life. They refer
to color, but they really refer to personalities and choices.
It's a lot going on in the news right now.
And what's in a name? Shakespeare said, a rose by
any other name still smells as sweet. There are two
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companies who just made decisions now to paint differently, to
change their colors and change their names. The first is Walmart.
Walmart's stores went to Walmart Ink because they're buying companies
that are outside their purview. They're becoming more of a
conglomerate than just Walmart stores arose by any other name.
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Are they changing their colors? I guess going from Walmart
stores to Walmart Inc. Doesn't change things all that much,
and I guess it makes sense. I think I could
support that one. There's another one that is not so
easy to accept. Those of you out there. Have you
ever heard of a company called tapestry? Jesse, you have
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an era of a company called tapestry.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
Uh it sounds like home furnishings.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
Well, here you go. Have you ever heard of Coach.
Of course, Well, Coach changed their name to Tapestry. Now
why you might ask, why is that? Ah, I'm glad
you asked.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
You.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
See, Coach started to acquire other companies, They acquired Kate's,
and they now feel that under the name of Coach
they're not embracing enough companies. So they changed their name
to Tapestry and went from one of the world's great
known companies to something that no one in this world
would know. Coach is now part of Tapestry. I don't
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support that one. It doesn't make any sense in the world.
Now how hard it will be for them to make
that name known when everyone knows Coach. There are many conglomerates,
many corporate entities that own multiple brands. Let's think of
Louis Vuitton, moh ed Hennessy right there, they're using three
different corporate names out of their sixty two brands they own.
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Could you imagine trying to name their corporation now, having
acquired sixty two brands with each of their names represented impossible?
People know LVMH, Louis Vuitton, mo ed Hennessy. When I
was at Phillips Venues in PVH, my other company, when
we bought Calvin Klein. The then CEO wanted to change
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their name to Calvin Klein because he felt that Phillips
van Eusen didn't represent the business except the shareholders knew it.
But he made a compelling case that if we changed
our name to Calvin Klein, it would be more reflective
of the future company. But we own multiple brands, and
today the company owns Tommy Hill, Figure, Jeffrey Bean, Isa
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van Usen, and Calvin Klein and PVH became the Moniker
and they spent time letting people get comfortable with their name.
So when you're talking about your true colors, you have
some choices on what to do in terms of naming
your company. I want to talk to the managers, the CEOs,
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the presidents, and board members about your people right now.
In the past, government and companies felt an obligation to
make sure that when their people retired, they were taken
care of. Every company of its consequence, we're stabling pension
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plans for their people. They would contribute every month a
portion of your salary into a pension plan that would
become available to you when you retired. So a combination
of your social security and a pension plan would hopefully
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put retirees in a position to support themselves and live
out their golden years with a degree of comfort and safety.
I think it was the eighties, maybe the nineties where
a new scheme came into play, the four oh one
K plan. This was an opportunity for companies to allow
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people to put pre tax dollars away up into a
defined amount tax free, and good companies, I say good
companies match those those deductions, those money that was put
away to give them more of a safety net. Because
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good companies were looking out for their people, people who
devoted their time and efforts. They wanted to make sure
when they retired they'd be okay. There's many articles coming
out now that people are no longer protected when they retire.
One of the major reasons is modern companies have done
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away with pension plans. Secondarily, a lot of the companies
are head up by investment companies. Now financial players are
looking to make a quick profit and a great return
on their money for their shareholders, and I applaud them,
but they lost sight of the need to make sure
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that workers who devote their time, effort, and careers to
them are properly taken care of, and there are a
lot of new companies today that are no longer matching
four O n K plans. So I con you out there,
you companies, to show your true colors. Who are you?
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Do you care about your people? Do you care about
the people who are going to bring you to the
promised land? Do you care about the people that you
need that will make you successful? Do you care? Then?
Show your true colors. These other times to think and
reflect the world is a different place, but it's filled
with beauty and you have to be in its walk
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and look at life. I'm reminded always how lucky we are.
Life is in color, and the color of money is
always in fashion. We'll talk to you soon. Good Night,
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And well, here's your host of Always in Fashion, Mark Weber.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Mark Weber. Tonight, I want to talk about color, color
and business, color in life. Therefore, this show, being that
it's a business show, will be called the Color of Money.
Everything we do is in color. Nature, we are in color.
There's an abundance of colorful themes in our lives, the
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good things and the bad color our lives. Life is
like a rainbow. You need both the rain and the
sun to make the color. Have you ever gotten up
early and seen the sunrise or stayed late to see
the sunset. Our evenings lately have been amazing, the clouds
and the sky, the oranges, the colors, just amazing. Our
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colors come from life, green grass, red sunrises, yellow sun,
blue sky, blue oceans and seas, orange sunsets, black as night,
white as snow. The snow was a beautiful reminder this
week of color and nature in our lives. And let's
not forget what grows, because what grows grows in colors. Grapes, raspberries, oranges, roses, tomatoes, berries, apples,
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corn wheat, plums, avocados, lettuce all grow in color. There
are also descriptives used for coloring our lives. There are
also descriptives used for coloring in our lives. The sunset
paints the day, nature awakes its day in brilliant colors.
There's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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Life is like a sea of vibrant colors. Let's jump
in our language. There's color in our language, there are
color in our expressions. Let's give it some color. We
used to explain something in detail. You see their true
colors a statement of what someone really stands for. He's
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true blue, depicting honesty and loyalty. She's black or white,
there is no gray, signifying a steadfast broach to the
morals of life and a grounding that's so important. He's
a redneck. H Let's not called that anything but his style,
although it traces back to workers working in the field
(03:05):
for physical labor and this sun making their next red.
She's telling a white lie, a lie, but just the
little one. Let's color outside the lines for those of
you who are rogues. Colors can define us and it
defines our mood. Let's talk about colors in our mood.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
It's good on who.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Looks good on Manos and.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
All the wall but darling and dormant. Yeah, blue. How
about when you say someone unfortunately is yellow illustrating cowardice.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I've got those yellow stains, No silly, yeah, Los Sanders.
Whence I went by and is a shot.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
It's always there.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I am not.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I've got those.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yellow stains, the yellow stains.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah, that's the cane mutiny. And they're talking about Humphrey
Bogoon for your mudo vi buffs. Let's get a little
bit more color. Let's get a little bit more modern
and talk about anger in the movies.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
What do you want to discuss now my favorite color.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
That's angry, Jack Nicholson, listen tonight. Out of respect for
the holiday season and the colors that are so plentiful,
I want to discuss color on this show. In fact,
I wanted to discuss in our business show color under
the guise of the color of money. Our money is green.
(04:43):
Our business is done in green dollars. Our businesses are
recorded in red ink for losses and black ink for profits.
I should also tell you that all around the world
money is colorful. Some currencies use color to differentiate the values.
Green is one value, red, purple, blue, or black hole
(05:03):
representing other denominations. Yes, we live in color. Even our personalities,
that in which is most personable to us and defines
us is often defined by color. He's colorful, hey, speaking
of colorful personalities.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Hi, Jesse Weber, Hello, Hello, Hello. You know who you
sound like tonight? You sound like Bob Ross. You know
who that is? That's the guy the Afro that would
paint all the time.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Oh my gosh, her learn how to paint. That's why
I'm just going to.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Use a nice little brush of red, a nice little
bush of blue. Actually, I'm not doing it justice let's
play a clip of him.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Let's just do a happy little painting the day. It's
such a it's such a beautiful day. We'll start with
a little touch of the thylow blue. We just use
the old two inch brush, tap little color into it.
Just pull a little color out and tap the brush
into it. That makes sure you got a nice even
distribution of color. See all the way through the bristles.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
See, I can't tell who's Mark Webber and who's a
bob rust to me?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
If that's what I said out, somebody over there locked
the windows. I'm going out.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Let's talk about color tonight.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I don't know is that a compliment. I don't like
the way that sounds.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
But anyway, I will tell you do make a compelling
case about color. So, considering the name of the show
is always in fashion, I was waiting for you to
mention that fashion is all about color. Actually, I must
tell you I love fashion. Colors always on my mind.
Every day I get dressed, I'm thinking about what I'm
gonna wear, what statement I want to make, and always, always,
(06:34):
always what color I'm in the mood to wear. I
have to consider not only what I like, but what
will the camera like I can't wear as bright, extravagant
clothes as I would want.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Okay, okay, so you seem to care about fashion.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Oh of course I really enjoy You think i'd be
your co host on here if I didn't enjoy fashion.
I really enjoy clothes.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Let me ask you a different question. You think you're
good at pulling wardrobe together, mixing matching colors?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
No, I'm not good, I'm great.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Great. So you think you really no color?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Hmm. You're an expert, mister attorney is an expert in color.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Listen, you don't hold the franchise is the only human
being who understands fashion, let alone in our family.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Ah so now you're an expert.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I know dressing, I know color, I know all that.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Hmm. I gotta tell you, I was very, very hopeful
that you would say that. I got an idea. You
up for a game, Jesse?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Uh huh Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Told the listeners really like our games. You up for
a game, A game of color? Sure?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
This sounds interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Okay, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna play a
game of color. Now you're saying you're an expert, and
I want to see if you're an expert. So here's
what I'd like to do.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
It's a little bit of pressure.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Well you are, you're an expert.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah, okay, let's okay.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Here's what i want to do for those of you
out there. I'm about to take a pen and a
paper and keep track of this game. I'm going to
set up two columns, one on the left and one
on the right. The one on the left is a
question I'm gonna ask Jesse where he gets it right,
and the one on the left I'm going to leave
for the questions that he gets wrong. If you want
to play along, why don't you get a paper and
pencil and we'll do the same thing together. I'm gonna
(08:04):
wait a minute on a night that we're talking color.
I'm always in fashion. Are you ready to play, Jesse?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Yes, sir, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That's the game we're gonna play. I'm gonna give you
color names and all you have to do is say
what color. It is simple, so it's gonna be probably. Okay. Okay,
let's do one just for a test so everybody sees
where we're going. You're ready? Tangerine orange? Reh?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Really right? You got it.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Okay, we go all right once again. Now let's start
keeping tracked.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
You ready, Yes, that doesn't count as a right one. No,
but then the right.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Now okay, first one emerald, yes, sage, sage, red, eh,
all right, that's so simple. Ah, show truce, Oh.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
My gosh, h.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Gray no blue, Ah, here's one incandescent. Right, I don't
have a clue. I'm not going to count.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
That's not even a real one.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
That's a color ruby, red, red, okay, very good, lapis.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Blue, Give me a minute.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Green Okay, I can give you a minute. But we've
got a lot of colors to go here, Kiwi green,
very good, jesse, mango, orange, oh, maroon, purple, well, burgundy, red,
ok peach, orange, passion, pink.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Wrong, that's red pink?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Well, which is it?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Passion?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Red?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Pink?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Okay? Red red? Give you a red like an elementary
school all right?
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Blood red?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Okay? Moonlight white? Ah, black pine.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Just for the record, that one makes no sense.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Green okay, you're doing okay here? Uh? Camel tan okay,
seladdn blue green, cinnamon brown very good? Sell down, sounds
like a transformer. Cinnamon cinnamon brown. Okay, Tan, I give
you that cobalt, oh blue, very good, copper brown, rust okay,
(10:15):
carl green, caral is green, pink orange, all right, raspberry red,
that's an easy one. That's easy. Black, gray, gray, sand tan, eggshell, white,
off white, white, flex.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Sea, I don't know, seeds.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
T futia, pink woo, that one. I thought we'd have
you on iris green blue, Kelly Mike pink, pink, pink,
Kelly's pink. Huh green, that's an easy one. Oh my gosh,
mauve gray, pink, liver, gray brown, let's see linen white,
(11:11):
give you that one, white, tannish, okra green.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
It's a vegetable, so is that?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
You know what? I don't know?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
The mustard yellow?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Okay, pastel blue, wrong lights, I'm looking for lights, lights,
pearl color, pearls my game, keep going, pearl, ivory, off white.
I'll give you that one, okay. How about uh, sapphire.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Pink red, purple blue, salmon, you know, pinkish.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Right, sepia bluepia color and photographs you that yellowish color,
you know that's washed over.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
We're going to use a nass red and o tope
off white.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
No, what is it? It's it's like a deepish Tannish
teal blue, terra cotta blue, am brown, turquoise green blue.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
That's green, ultra marine, turquoise, ultra marine green blue.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Okay, I'll give you that one. Violet purple, good boy. Ready,
here's one for you, wisteria blue laughnd wow, okay, zephyra.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
You're making up words.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
I'm not purple deep blue. Okay, the last one I'm
gonna go. Wait, let me see. Yeah, that'll be the
last one. You're ready. Cordivin orange. You see this one
bothers me because cordivin is the color of burgundy penny loafers,
and you're supposed to be a fashion guy. So let's
look where we are on the game. You're ready, Yeah,
I'm hitting them up. On the right side, you got five, ten, fifteen,
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twenty five.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I got twenty five right And on the.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Wrong side you got ten fifteen twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Not bad when I fail?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Well for an expert, Well you got fifty out of
one hundred and two.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Is there a curve on this exam?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
This is in law school. Yeah, you failed for an expert,
miss the expert. That's the point.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I have to go. I have to I have to
go hang out with Crayola more.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
There's a point here, right. First of all, it's tougher
than your thoughts.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
It's a lot tougher than I thought.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Well, nothing in life is easy, and that's what we
have to take away and remember. And the point is
that color is not so easy, even in fashion. How
about in our lives and fashion as in all business
is about money and color and money. Tonight comes together
and Always in Fashion we're going to talk the color
of money. Be back in a minute.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Always in Fashion.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Spent a lifetime of my career building the van usen Brand,
and I am so pleased that they're back with us
now talking about suits. Men, we're dressing up again, and
it's become cool to wear a suit. Suits can be
one on multiplccasions in multiple ways. You could wear a
suit formally to go out at night or to an event,
(14:10):
to wear a suit to the office with or without
a tie. If you look closely, now fashion trends, suits
are being worn with turtlenecks or mark next. The choices
are endless and every one of them looks right. You
could really really look the part. I believe that in
packaging yourself this is important. Does the products you package
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and wearing a suit is one of those things that
make men look their best. Venues and invented a new idea.
It's called the cool Flex suit. It's been engineered with
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It's wrinkle resistant fabric, it's cool moisture WICKI it makes
it perfect for all occasions. As we discussed just now,
(14:53):
this new style of looking sharp while feeling cool and
comfortable is amazing and I'm so excited that the van
Using company is involved in this new technology and is
embracing the whole idea of dressing up. Let's not forget
van Using made it's name with dress shirts. It's only
proper that the soup business follows strongly in its way.
(15:15):
You can find van Using cool Flex Men's stretch suits
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You should go look at them.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Welcome back to it always in fashion. Here's your host,
Mark Webber.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
You can't help but be amazed that the color is
in the world. The sunrises, the sunsets, they're amazing. I
look forward to them. I stay up for them, or
I get up early. To look. But I am overwhelmed
by the amount of color all around us in this city,
just walking the stores. It's amazing point of time for us.
We're a business show, and I started thinking, of all things,
(15:53):
the color of money. Let's talk about fashion and color
in business. Fashion is a business. It makes money, and
colors often of the reasons you make the money. There
are colors in fashion that are great money makers, and
they are colors that are losers. Let's start off with
a very important color. The number one fashion color is
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blue blue, and it is not a sad blue. The
number one color in fashion actually is navy blue. Blue
signifies traditional, it's comfortable. And I'll tell you the interesting
thing about traditional and fashion. There are two to three
times the amount of traditional people in this country than
modern forward people. Tradition is just that tradition. It shows
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a history, it shows a longevity, it shows a comfort level.
And everything you do and you walk into a Ralph
Laurence store right now and ask them what's going on
with color, they'll tell you, we're very excited. We have
navy blue right now. That's one of our important colors.
Navy blue is very, very predictable. That's another reason. It's
great in business. You just know if you do something
something in navy blue with colors that match navy blue,
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you're gonna make money doing it. Everything matches navy everything
except for brown shoes. I guess she had surprised. They
said that Jesse shocker.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
In fact, it's funny. We ran into somebody in the office,
grabbed us and said, look, look look at my shoes.
Black shoes, not brown shoes. You become a statement again.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
You go. Everybody knows I hate brown shoes with navy blue.
I was at a cocktail part of the other night.
Some guy came over, a very fashionable guy. He was
very proud. I wear Bruno Kuchinelli, I wear tom Ford,
and there he was with a gray suit wearing brown shoes.
I wanted to strangle him. I said, listen to me.
You can name drop, you can tell me about Couchannelli,
you can tell me about tom Ford. But they don't
wear brown shoes with tan. So what are you talking about.
(17:42):
It's the best color car. What should I wear with
a gray suit? Black? You dell me, this is nobody
wears black. So my son was there, your brother justin
He looked at the guy, and he said tom Ford
wears black suits only, and he only wears them with
black shoes. So we shut that guy up. But the
point of the story is you need to be true
to yourself to thine own self be true. Remember, there
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are a lot of traditional people in the USA, and
therefore navy blue is an amazing color. Now, before I
leave all these guys wearing brown shoes with navy suits,
I want to play for your national anthem that sheep.
(18:27):
You're all followers, you're all sheep. Lose the brown shoes.
I don't care what it does to our industry wearing
with brown. All right, we're on always in fashion, we're
talking color. I'm having a good time. Whether or not
we like color, it's all over everywhere. But my favorite
color is black. Black is my favorite color. Black is
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modern black as the evening. Black is dynamic and striking.
We must all admire black. It's limitless, like the night.
It keeps you guessing. It makes everyone more mysterious because
you can't see everything in black. That, in fact, is
what make black so attractive to so many people. You
can't see everything on you when you're wearing it. Black
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is one of the few colors that matches and highlights
and enhances every other the color that exists in the rainbow.
Black with red, silver, or gold ladies perfect any color
of course, white or gray. Black is the perfect backdrop
for any color you wear. You can lead with black
on top, or you can anchor any color with black
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as your pants or your skirt. Nothing beats, by the way,
black on black. Black should be the number one color
in fashion, but it's not because of its severity. Yes,
due to its severity, there are limitations. For example, you
don't wear black suits to work, unless, of course, you're
working for I suppose Tom Ford or Calvin Klein. It's
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just not business friendly. It's too severe. You would not
wear a black dress shirt to work for the same reason.
Yet at night in winter, wearing black is that's the answer.
Black allows men to blend into the night, and black
allows you women to stand out in the night. Black
is a statement that could be worn anywhere. There's a reason.
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Every woman's essential includes the LBD, the little Black dress,
one of my favorite things. Black tights with black shoes,
black sneak is perfect. Black skirt, black jacket, you look amazing. Yes,
you can wear to work as well, ladies, when there's
a new fashion color happening, what do they say, Oh,
brown is the new black? Or green is the new black? Nonsense?
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Black stands alone as black. There's only one black. Modern
contemporary is black. It's a money maker. On the color
of money. Tonight on Always in Fashion, Be back in
a minute.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Always in Fashion.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
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Speaker 2 (22:41):
Welcome back to it always in fashion. Here's your host,
Mark Webber.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Colors all around us. It's a beautiful time of year.
The sky's a lit, the night's so bright and colorful.
What a great time to be out in the holiday
season looking at color. Because of all those colors, I
decided tonight to about color, and particular because it's a
business show, I'm talking about the color of money. There
are a number of colors that really mean money in
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the fashion business, navy and black. I talked about. It's important,
of course for color to you understand that while I'm
talking about best selling colors, there are bees and they're
best sellers. They're the colors that people wear most the
colors that you should be wearing if you want to
be successful in business. Now, just to finish up on
some of the real powerful colors. The whole family of
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tan and neutrals are huge, and the reason they're huge
is because they're neutral. They're not making a statement, unutil themselves.
They're really canvas really that you can paint upon the
colors of the rainbow that yu really suit you the
best for men khaki pants. I will tell you like
an off white sweat of the khaki pant will look great.
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But then I'll accessrize you and you won't a great.
Put you in a player of black shoes and a
black top coat. You look like a million dollars, but
you won't believe me. You wear your stupid brown shoes
and think you're cool. So I'm gonna move on. In ladies,
you know off white at Crew went to white ol match.
Together with a camel top coat, camel color boots, short
or high, beautiful leather bag, you'll look amazing. You know
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how colors of neutrals work together. A whole tan family
is a remarkable family of color. And then that brings
us to another other great color. I want to use
the words as someone we all know who's amazing at fashion,
Taylor Swift, and she says, and I quote, red is
such an interesting color to correlate with emotion because it's
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on both ends of the spectrum. On the one end,
you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation and something and
someone and all of that. On the other hand, you
got obsession, jealousy, anger, fear, anger, and frustration. Yes, red
is a passionate color, and yes, Taylor Swift, you get
it right. Red is a powerful color. Think about black
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with red killer, particularly out for the holidays. Amazing time, ladies,
red lipstick, red nails and shoes, red handbag. Oh my goodness.
Red is a winner at the box office, and it's
one of the most profitable fashioned colors of the year,
particularly this time of year. JESSEI what are you thinking
about all of this?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
I think red also comes in play in law, believe
it or not, really weere do you remember when Christian
Lubaton sued ysl Saint Laurent over red sold shoes.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
They do what you mention, I do.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Uh huh. They did a whole collection of monochrome footwear
and various colors, including red. They tried to protect the
right to use a red soule. In the end, after
going through a whole big legal battle, Christian Lubaton actually
has a trademark right to a red sole with a
contrasting color on top. So if you have a black
shoe with a red sole, they have trademark rights to that.
So if it's limited, but they have a right.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
So if I got that right, anybody wants to do
a red soul has to have a red shoe. Yeah,
all right, thank you, legal legal in the color red.
I think that's really really important. Having said all of this,
we're talking colors in the neighborhood, colors outside in the city,
and now we're talking the color of money and the
theme of our show tonight. Color has such an impact
on our lives and on our businesses and on you.
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But for the moment, there are a lot of losers
out there and a lot of losing colors. If you
think about it, you're getting dressed, okay, were you're going shopping?
After you covered? White, navy, gray, red, pink, light blue, tan?
What other color could you possibly need? Unless you're going
(26:37):
out jogging you want to wear bright colors. Well, somehow
or another, the designers of America have figured out how
to pick losers out there. If you're wearing colors, then
the ones I just mentioned. All I could ask you
is why this is fashion dangerous? So now I want
to talk about some of the losers. I'm going to
tell you the worst color in fashion. You probably never
(26:57):
even think about it. Okay, rust? Rust stinks in life?
Who wants something that's rusty. Rust is the worst color
in fashion. Every season, some designer tries to bring it
back and do something with it. I don't get it.
My favorite story I was working for one of my
companies and in it we had a season. It was
full and the guy puts together a line was a
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male guy puts together a line and in it, every
player has a color of rust. It's that ugly brown
color like rust on a car. So I look at
him and say, nobody wears rust. Why do we have
rust in every pat And he says no, they all
wear it. So I got angers nobody wears it. He says, yes,
they do. I said, okay, there are ten people in
the room. I said, you know what, I'm the boss. Guys,
(27:40):
hang with me a minute. Do me a favor. Let's
respect our designer here. Let's pick up our stuff, all
of us. I want to go downstairs. Let's go in
front of the building. I took ten people, including all
of the design team, to the front of the building.
We're standing there. There's a springtime working on fall. I said, okay,
from now on, for the next ten minutes, let's cover
and keep track of everyone who's wearing rust. When they
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walk by. I don't care if it's a tiny bit
of rust or a whole outfit and rust anything. We
stood in front of that store for ten minutes. Not
a single person walk by wearing rust. So I looked
at the designer and I said, what do you think
about it? Eah, you know it's the city. We go
back up to the office. I said to myself, this
guy gotta go. That is, in my opinion, the worst
color when it comes to colors, Jesse, what do you think?
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Can't I guess the next worst color?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Purple? Oh you can't feel like unless you're the joker,
you can't pull that one off.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Okay, let me tell you about purple. Purple is the
color of the gods. Purple is the color of royalty.
You look at that show The Crown. When she comes out,
she's wearing purple. It's the color of royalty. By the way,
The Crown is the best show I've ever seen on television.
It's on Netflix, It's in season two. It is the
best fashion of any show, and I recommend it. But
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purple is an amazing color. When someone decides to do purple,
you see it on the runway, you see it on
the models. You can't wait to go back to your
showrooms and develop purple. But purple has the unique property
that it's the only color in the world from the
time you started to the time you deliver it. It dies.
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It never makes it to success in the stores. Ever.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Remember the time that you wore a purple You used
to experiment in color. So we were in Las Vegas.
Maybe you're feeling adventurous. You decided to wear a purple
v neck sweater. And we're going towards the elevator. As
you press the button and a door opens, and it's crowded.
We couldn't get in. And as the door, I mean
the elevators packed with people, as the elevator doors closed.
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Right before they close, all you hear someone say is
purple and the doors closed. You know what that taught me? Yeah,
you stood out for all the wrong reasons.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Yeah, and which is a common theme of my show,
no question about it. And we'll come back to that
in a minute. But I I'd ask you right before
this on Always in Fashion. Here we are Jesse and
I talking about the color of money. We're talking about
those colors that work and those colors that stink from
I heaven. And what is the worst color ever? What
has incurred the greatest losses ever? Ever? Ever? What color
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you think that is?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Jesse, Well, it's actually my favorite color, but I don't
know if it's so good for fashion.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Green. Okay, I'm going to grant you green because you
have green eyes, and yes, green looks good on you.
But green has killed more people in the fashion industry
than anything else. There's four hundred shades of green. It
never ever works. Green is deadly, And I'll tell you
how you're supposed to look at it. When you're designing product,
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even if you're making Apple phones, you have ten people
walking in your store. You want to appeal to all
ten people. The color green appeals to three out of ten.
And only in baseball do you get ten million dollars
a year paycheck for batting three, and fashion you get killed.
And green is a terrible color because everybody thinks it
(31:05):
works and it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Now I'm thinking if I own anything green. I own
two things that are green. Now I have to see
if I look good at them.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Okay, Well that's silly shoal collar sweater that should have
been navy. Yeah, you're right, you should think about it.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
It's holiday season. S okay, hater.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
All right, do you know what the biggest color in
the world is? Do you know what color? More people
are wearing than anything else right now in fashion. They're
wearing it in T shirts, They're wearing it in pants,
They're wearing it shoes, they're wearing it in jackets, they're
(31:42):
wearing it in backpacks. It is the biggest color in
the world. You'll find it here, You'll find it in
the desert in Sahara, You'll find it everywhere. Do you
know what color that is? White? No? One more, guess
I'll give you a hint. You want to hint?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Military?
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Uh? Camouflage? Yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Everyone is wearing camouflage right now. It is a huge,
huge color. Even golfers are wearing camouflage. So I just
thought this was an interesting segment on how anything can
turn up and be successful. But what is the perfect color?
As we round down this whole subject, I'll tell you
(32:26):
I'm going to take the words of Coco Chanel and
she said, the best color in the world is the
color that looks best on you. With that, we'll take
a break. Be back in a minute.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Always in fashion.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Done to. Karen began her career as one of the finest,
most successful, powerful women in the fashion industry. She developed
a collection aimed at the luxury market for women on
the go, women who were powerful in their workplace, women
who had lives that extended beyond the workplace, and went
from day in tonight. An extraordinary collection. But the interesting
(33:05):
thing Donna Karen had a young daughter, and she had
friends and they couldn't afford to buy the Donna Aaron collection,
And Donna invented DK NY Donna Aaron, New York. It's
an offshoot of the Donna Karen collection. The same concept
a lifestyle brand. Then we talk about lifestyle brands, What
does that really mean? Simply what they say, there are
brands that follow you throughout your lifestyle. You get up
(33:27):
in the morning, you start to get dressed Donna Karen
dcaan why as intimate apparel, as hosiery, as all those products.
You're getting dressed for work. You get accessorized shoes, handbags,
and it takes you through the day. The remarkable thing
about DK and Y clothes for work, they work into
the evening. The dresses, the suits, the pants, the sweaters,
(33:47):
the blouses, extraordinary clothes at affordable prices that go from
day in tonight. Part of your lifestyle is active. You
have weekends, you have events, you participate in sports. Donna
Karen's casual clothes did that under the dk and Y label.
A vast array of casual sportswear that make women look
(34:08):
great as they navigate their busy lives. Whether you going
to soccer games for your children, or whether you're going
out to the movies. Whatever you want to do, DK
and Y genes dk Y Sportswear is there for you.
That's what a lifestyle brand is. I need to mention
DKY Activewar, which is extraordinary, the leggings, the sports bras,
(34:31):
the sweats. You can wear dk Y active Wear certainly
in the gym, certainly when you're working out at home,
and certainly if you want on the street, because it's
that well done. The quality of dk why is nothing
short of exceptional. And why shouldn't it be Because it
was born from the idea of luxury made affordable for
(34:52):
women of America. DKY and Wire a true lifestyle brand
that takes you from day and tonight, from the week
into the weekend. Dcn Why you can find DCN Why
and Macy's DCNY dot com.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Welcome back to it Always in fashion. Here's your host,
Mark Webber.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
The world is a wash in color. It is so
extraordinary to be outside and walking around, walking to the
studio at night. The reds, the greens, the yellows, the lights.
It's remarkable. At this point, though, I want to talk
to you about color. I want to talk to you guys.
The gals you get it. You don't need my help
right now, but you guys, I want to make sure
(35:35):
we talk about the color of money on tonight's show,
and how do we make money in business? And how
do we be successful in business? Well, one of the
things you have to always remember is the way you
package yourself for success. When you get dressed for work.
If your uniform needs to be a suit, I will
allow you only two colors for your wardrobe. You can
(35:59):
wear wear navy or you can wear gray suits. Now
I'll give you a break. There are different shades of navy,
some darker than the others, but stay navy. And in gray,
there are charcoal grays all the way to light grays.
As long as they're gray, you have my permission. But
there are rules when it comes to you getting dressed, guys,
(36:19):
I want you to fit in. Early in this show,
Jesse made fun of me for the one time I
wore a purple sweater, and people will laughing at me.
I don't want people laughing at you. In business. You
wear your navy suit, your gray suit, wear a white shirt,
maybe a light blue shirt, and maybe, just maybe, if
you know what you're doing, a light gray shirt. And
just to keep it simple, navy tie, gray tie, black tie.
(36:43):
That's it. That's all you can wear. And if you
do that, you'll be successful. You will look great and
you will win at work, except if you wear brown shoes,
because then you look like a fool, like a follower
and a sheep. You don't need to do it, trust me,
do the right thing. I'll tell you a couple of
(37:05):
other quick little secrets on how you guys should get
dressed for work. Pocket squares. I think it looks like
you're trying too hard unless you really know how to dress.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
I disagree, disagree, disagree. Pocket squares are so cool. They're
the refined gentlemen. You don't have to wear a crazy
pocket scare, but a nice little slit white pocket square
looks great.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Pocket square is for a refine guy who knows how
to put it all together. Now, if you're wearing a
white shirt with a navy suit, what colored pocket square
you're gonna wear?
Speaker 4 (37:38):
What color tie?
Speaker 3 (37:39):
You tell me?
Speaker 4 (37:40):
White pocket square?
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Okay, I'm looking at you tonight and you're looking pretty
fancy with your light blue shirt and your patterned pocket square.
That's light blue, navy, baby navy looks good. So you're
okay with pocket square? Oh? Absolutely, all right? Because Jesse
says so, and I know they look right. If you
are right, you know how to accessorize in dress, I'll
give it to you. Now. That comes to mention of
(38:03):
the knot for your tie. I believe in small half wines.
I like small knots. I don't want to see your
not looking bigger than your head. And a lot of
people do that, talk about amateurs. What do you think
about that.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
One, Joh, I'll agree with you on that one. I
don't like a big knot either, small knot. It's very
classic Verse sixties.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
It's very carry grant. Everything he did was right. Yeah, okay,
we agree on that one. There's a lot of talk
and a lot of guys wearing sneakers with suits. What
do you think about that?
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Ugh, I'm not a huge fan of that one. I
see a lot of celebrities they look great. It's funny.
Could do a pan down, start with the hair, to
the face, to the suit, to the pants and it
all looks great, and then down to the sneak sneakers.
I'm not sure I agree with that one.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Well, if you're a celebrity making anywhere between a million
and twenty million dollars a movie, I suppose you could
do whatever you want because you don't need to worry
about your career all that much. But if you're in
business working around trying to get success, so you've got
to look the you gotta wear your black shoes. I'll
let you wear loafers or tie ups. One of my
favorite pet peeves no socks. What we think about that?
(39:08):
With business stress?
Speaker 4 (39:09):
What happens if you have really good skin, your feet
look good, your tan.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
I throw up looking at you.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Okay, I don't know, it depends depends. I'll say that
one depends.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Okay. Out there being that the show is called Always
in Fashion with your host Mark Webber, you are not
allowed to go to the office without socks. Period. Now,
if it is spring and summer, and if you're wearing
boat shoes with a pair of khaki pants, you have
to wear socks. Okay, that's it. I don't want to
see your skin. It doesn't make sense. And with those
(39:42):
few simple tips, I think you would be successful at
work on the color of money on always in fashion,
with color all around us, in fashion, in business, in life.
I just told you, blend in. You will be great.
You will be successful in business, will be in a.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Moment, always in fashion.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
My favorite brand has always been ISOD. My company at
one time bought that brand. The CEO of the company
handed it to me and said, you better make it work.
And I put everything in my career to make Eyesod
work and I fell in love with that brand, and
to this day it is one of the most exciting
endeavors I've ever got involved with. Isod is an incredibly
(40:26):
strong golf brand. If you play golf, if you play
tennis for that matter. They make a great polo shirts.
I mean great, They're fit perfect. The material is unique
because it's a PK fabric that waffle weave you see,
and it's made of a blend of cotton and microfiber
(40:48):
that allows you to stretch, and very often they are
treated with solar protection as well, so they stretch, they're comfortable,
and they breathe well. And one thing about Isaac they
always fit. They'll never tug on you. You put it in
your waist that they'll fit you great. The colors, patterns
are sensational. Now I will also tell you Isaac makes
(41:11):
great shorts and great golf pants. You're a golf friend.
You want to look good. You don't't have to think
about how do I look. You want to think about
how you play, not how you feel. Isazad is the
brand for you. I know I was there when it
was created. The strategy behind that brand is brilliant. That's
one of my favorite brands. While I talk about it,
I should tell you about the man's sportswear. ISOD wasn't
(41:32):
enough being a golf brand. It wasn't enough being just
great polo shirts with logos, without logos. Incredible brands and
story and history. Isaad makes salt weather programs. They have
great printed woven shirts, short sleeves. They look excellent with collars,
(41:52):
excellent with shorts, excellent with cotton. Pants of which they
also make this whole salt order relaxed line from Isaac,
whether it be foleee, cotton sweaters, knit polos, woven shirts
and pants of a range of colors and fabrics. And
here's the thing, Ison is affordable. Everyone listening to me
(42:17):
talk about this brand can afford to buy it and
know that there are a lot of other brands that
also have a look like isid Although I don't believe
it's fun as isond is. The brand has a lot
of energy in it, but at the price points no
one can compete. You can find Isyesa at your leading
retailers and online at Izon dot com. Talk to you later, guys,
(42:40):
and I help you by telling you if you were
eyes on, you're gonna look great. Van Usen actually the
name Venuesen. First time I heard it, I thought was
an old man's company. I was in an interview and
I was being offered a job to work and that
I said, it's old man's company. And the headhunter who
is recruiting me said, you're an idiot. He said, they're
a public company, one of the world's great shirt makers.
(43:01):
And if in fact you feel they're old, that's why
they want young people like you Mark to change the
company and to bring it into the next century. And
lo and behold, I joined them. I put my heart
and soul in that company. I did everything I can
to participate in making it one of the world's great brands,
and it is. If you look at Van using they
called sportswear, I don't understand the name sportswear. I don't
(43:23):
understand neckwear when you're talking about ties. I don't understand
the name hosiery when you're talking about socks. I'm not
sure I understand the name sportswear when you're talking about
men's clothing. Well, men's clothing is complicated because that in
the retail venue means suits and sport codes. Having said that,
Van used in sportswear, shirts, sweaters, knitwear amazing. Men use
(43:46):
it as a modern approach to fashion that appeals to
a broad base of Americans. First of all, it's affordable.
You find it in stores that you visit that you
could afford to participate it. You could buy multiple items
that all coordinated together. Them primary colors start with black
and tan and gray and navy. They're all salable. They
(44:07):
make sense. The knitwear in the spring of the year,
amazing golf shirts, amazing polar shirts in the fall of
the year, whether it's polar fleas or sweaters. Then use
It has a modern approach to fashion. You buy the pants,
the dress, shirts, the suits, the neckwear. But in particular
I'm talking about the coordinated collection sportswear in venues. The
(44:29):
styling is perfect, the fits a generous, the design to
make you feel comfortable. Not only aren't your body by
the fit, but in your head? Then Using sport collections
are one of my favorite to this day. And believe me,
I'm involved when I see the lines. If I don't
like them, I call the principles of the company and say.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
What are you doing? But I don't have to do
it because that taste level is right. If you want
to buy affordable men's clothes that look right, if you're modern,
you want to get dressed for the day and look
your part, you want to go out at night, van
Using will work for you. I am supporting and recommending
you go see van Using sports J C. Penny or
(45:11):
online at your favorite stores. Van Using a brand that
has always been with me and I'll always have a
soft spot in my heart for it.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
Welcome back to it always in fashion. Here's your host,
Mark Webber.
Speaker 3 (45:26):
I want to talk about true colors. I want to
talk about those things that revolve around life. They refer
to color, but they really refer to personalities and choices.
It's a lot going on in the news right now.
And what's in a name? Shakespeare said, a rose by
any other name still smells as sweet. There are two
(45:48):
companies who just made decisions now to paint differently, to
change their colors and change their names. The first is Walmart.
Walmart's stores went to Walmart Ink because they're buying companies
that are outside their purview. They're becoming more of a
conglomerate than just Walmart stores arose by any other name.
(46:15):
Are they changing their colors? I guess going from Walmart
stores to Walmart Inc. Doesn't change things all that much,
and I guess it makes sense. I think I could
support that one. There's another one that is not so
easy to accept. Those of you out there. Have you
ever heard of a company called tapestry? Jesse, you have
(46:37):
an era of a company called tapestry.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
Uh it sounds like home furnishings.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
Well, here you go. Have you ever heard of Coach.
Of course, Well, Coach changed their name to Tapestry. Now
why you might ask, why is that? Ah, I'm glad
you asked.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
You.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
See, Coach started to acquire other companies, They acquired Kate's,
and they now feel that under the name of Coach
they're not embracing enough companies. So they changed their name
to Tapestry and went from one of the world's great
known companies to something that no one in this world
would know. Coach is now part of Tapestry. I don't
(47:16):
support that one. It doesn't make any sense in the world.
Now how hard it will be for them to make
that name known when everyone knows Coach. There are many conglomerates,
many corporate entities that own multiple brands. Let's think of
Louis Vuitton, moh ed Hennessy right there, they're using three
different corporate names out of their sixty two brands they own.
(47:38):
Could you imagine trying to name their corporation now, having
acquired sixty two brands with each of their names represented impossible?
People know LVMH, Louis Vuitton, mo ed Hennessy. When I
was at Phillips Venues in PVH, my other company, when
we bought Calvin Klein. The then CEO wanted to change
(47:59):
their name to Calvin Klein because he felt that Phillips
van Eusen didn't represent the business except the shareholders knew it.
But he made a compelling case that if we changed
our name to Calvin Klein, it would be more reflective
of the future company. But we own multiple brands, and
today the company owns Tommy Hill, Figure, Jeffrey Bean, Isa
(48:19):
van Usen, and Calvin Klein and PVH became the Moniker
and they spent time letting people get comfortable with their name.
So when you're talking about your true colors, you have
some choices on what to do in terms of naming
your company. I want to talk to the managers, the CEOs,
(48:42):
the presidents, and board members about your people right now.
In the past, government and companies felt an obligation to
make sure that when their people retired, they were taken
care of. Every company of its consequence, we're stabling pension
(49:04):
plans for their people. They would contribute every month a
portion of your salary into a pension plan that would
become available to you when you retired. So a combination
of your social security and a pension plan would hopefully
(49:24):
put retirees in a position to support themselves and live
out their golden years with a degree of comfort and safety.
I think it was the eighties, maybe the nineties where
a new scheme came into play, the four oh one
K plan. This was an opportunity for companies to allow
(49:46):
people to put pre tax dollars away up into a
defined amount tax free, and good companies, I say good
companies match those those deductions, those money that was put
away to give them more of a safety net. Because
(50:08):
good companies were looking out for their people, people who
devoted their time and efforts. They wanted to make sure
when they retired they'd be okay. There's many articles coming
out now that people are no longer protected when they retire.
One of the major reasons is modern companies have done
(50:30):
away with pension plans. Secondarily, a lot of the companies
are head up by investment companies. Now financial players are
looking to make a quick profit and a great return
on their money for their shareholders, and I applaud them,
but they lost sight of the need to make sure
(50:50):
that workers who devote their time, effort, and careers to
them are properly taken care of, and there are a
lot of new companies today that are no longer matching
four O n K plans. So I con you out there,
you companies, to show your true colors. Who are you?
(51:11):
Do you care about your people? Do you care about
the people who are going to bring you to the
promised land? Do you care about the people that you
need that will make you successful? Do you care? Then?
Show your true colors. These other times to think and
reflect the world is a different place, but it's filled
with beauty and you have to be in its walk
(51:34):
and look at life. I'm reminded always how lucky we are.
Life is in color, and the color of money is
always in fashion. We'll talk to you soon. Good Night,
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