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Episode Transcript

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This show is produced and hosted byMark Webber. The show is sponsored by
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the sponsor and not necessarily the opinionof sevent ten wo r or iHeartMedia.
Who is Mark Webber. He's aself made business executive here to help you
find your success from the New YorkCity projects to the Avenue Montaigne in Paris.

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His global success story in the luxuryworld of fashion is inspirational. He's
gone from clerk to CEO twice.Mark is classic proof that the American dream
is alive. And well, here'syour host of Always in Fashion, Mark
Webber. Weber. The world's ina bad place. The obvious. We're

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living in a divided country politically,economically, ideologically, we're in each other's
face. We're protesting, arguing,disrespecting bee who you are, I don't
care, just don't force me toagree. And the others problems are their
crime, poverty, immigration, that'sus. But I said the world's in
a bad place, war, disease, and now fire and smoke. Who

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would ever envisioned being forced indoors againthis time because of fires in Canada?
You can't make the stuff up.A hundred million Americans are in danger because
of wildfires in Canada. Really,after two years of COVID stay indoors masking
outside, here we are again.Climate change activists have taken ownership for this

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fiasco. I have to ask billionsof acres of trees and forests around the
world, come on, it can'tbe manicured. There's plenty of rain this
year. There are natural disasters.There always have been, there always will
be. Footnote where a planet floatingin space were like Mars, where a

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planet stuff happens. But someone whorespect whispered something else to me to consider.
It's starting to feel like Biblical times. The plague, fire, smoke,
floods, the threat of nuclear war, human suffering. They whispered to
me. Maybe we should consider thatGod is angry at us when you consider

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that God only gave us ten commandments, just ten rules to follow in living
our lives, just ten. I'mwilling to bet almost none of us,
with the exception maybe of the faithful, the bias, the most religious might
know what the ten actually are,let alone honor those commandments. I'm pretty

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sure no one does. Maybe we'rebeing told our behavior is not acceptable.
Man plans and God lasts something toconsider. We're not doing the right thing.
Now, you conspiracy theorists, hereanother one. Maybe we should consider
all these UFO sidings, our planets, our neighbors. Word. We're destroying

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the earth. Maybe they have somethingto say about it. We're in a
bad place. Current catastrophes aside,current events aside. The idea of bad
to good got me thinking. I'vealways subscribed to the principle that good isn't
good enough, that good is theenemy of great, and that good is

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lazy. I've learned in the timeI've spent competing, it's clear that only
great wins. Now sports teaches thislesson every day and every night. The
fact that goes further than great.Pick a sport. Baseball, the Yankees,
Gian Carlos Stanton good could be great, he's always injured, Anthony Rizzo

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excellent. Aaron Judge is the elite, a very special place, rarefied air
now Also in the Yankee the pitchesNasty Nest are good. Garrett Cole elite.
How about golf Tiger Woods elite,Rory McElroy great, Justin Thomas good.
It could be divided even further,Bruce, keepka good every day,

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but elite for the majors. Ican talk acting directors, designing, business
leaders. We judge, we havesystems. Everything is up for categorization.
Hey, take politicians are elected officials. I'll rate them all bad. We're
all on the scale. What dowe fit. We can be elite one

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day, bad the next. It'snot just skills, its attitude. When
I'm insightful, I can amaze myself. When I am angry, never fails.
How bad and stupid I could be. When I'm playful, I know
I'm getting in trouble. I'm onrecord once again. Humans don't like them.
The scale I'm using tonight is forhumans bad, average, good,

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great or elite. I've seen humansrun the gamut more often bad than average,
even less good, let along greaterelite. I'm never surprised with bad,
but I'm always shocked when I findexcellent or elite judging me. I'm
the judge and jury. I makeup my mind. That's it. Before
you start frowning on me, Ithink you're not that different. I think

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not. You probably do the samething. Now. My scale for rating
it has always been one to ten. I've seen many surveys asking to rate
this way. I've seen rating systemsof one to five, same principle,
less choices. Maybe that's easier,less delineations. I read an article I
tried to lay out a judging process. I don't remember where I saw it.

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Maybe it was the movie Air.That movie was a ten or five,
depending on how you want to usethe system, or elitely great.
Got me thinking about all the observingI've been doing, all the critiquing.
Require We judge everything people, places, things, sounds, smells, tastes,
touches. That covers the five senses. We make judgments based on ethnicity.

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Unfortunately, we judge people by currentryof origin. Unfortunately, we judge
by gender, unfortunately, by sizeand weight. Unfortunately. I just point
us out to make a point.We judge everything right or wrong. We
judge. We make judgments the secondwe meet someone by their face or facial

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expression. Are they respectful? Whatis the opening line that comes out of
their mouth? How do they fallup to the response I give anything?
Then we consider in judging, willyou deliver as promise? Do you look
or sound like you'll do what you'llsay you'll do? Then we get superficial.
What color or the clothes you're wearing? Are your clothes clean? Press

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neat? For that matter? Doyou look clean? Do your clothes fit?
Ladies? Not too tight? Toofrom peek? Guys? Are your
pants dragging? Are your sleeves toolong? We look at your shoes.
They are the window to your soul. Oh, I'm judging. It's not
fair. But like trick cereal faireas for kids, is it right?

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Hell? No, who hasn't learnedyou can't judge a book by its cover.
Yet we all do in the courtroom, in the movies, in real
life we're all judge judy. We'rejudging. Now. Having said this,
I've been around, I've been seeing, listening, interacting, just judging,
and that's what I want to talkabout tonight, and the system of bad,
average, good, great or elite. Now i'll start, Actually,

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i'll start with fashion. This isthe part where I would normally introduce my
son, lawyer and co host JesseWeber, but I can't believe it.
He got married last week. He'son his honeymoon. He's not here,
and I'll try not to judge himtoo harshly. If you're try not to
judge me for even considering he hasa responsibility. It was a amazing event

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at the plaza. Hotel. Puta little judgment on the plaza is in
order. I want to make apoint and I want to make a lesson
learn. I get to the plaza, it's time to check in. I
go to the front desk. Thenicest guy, bright eyes, articulate,
friendly, looks me up, seesI'm part of the bridal party, congratulates
me, then offers he has abeautiful suite for me as requested, gives

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me two keys, points out theelevator, and tells me my rate is
eighteen hundred dollars plus tacks per night. Enjoy my stay. After that,
it's pretty hard to enjoy. I'mtaking a room, or I'm buying the
hotel. I actually said him,you'll like working for me. Now I
bought the hotel. He gets ratedexcellent. I get to the room.

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Room is good. Should have beenbetter, should have been larger. Bathrooms
are great. Lighting. Average viewof a brick wall bad. I didn't
pay eighteen hundred plus tacks to lookat a brick wall, so I called
down. I asked to speak tomy guy. Sorry, mister, Webber.
That's the room you're assigned. Well, I don't want to be assigned

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this room. Let me look whatI have for you. Okay, have
a room facing the fountain. Twentytwo hundred dollars plus tax. He quickly
went in my eyes from excellent tobed. Let's just say I went to
bad attitude in record time. Iwas obnoxious, But that's okay. The
Plaza was bad. I'm blad now. All in all, I give the
hotel a rating of good, asthey said it earlier. Good isn't good

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enough. It should be excellent,should be elite. It's a luxury hotel.
Is that what a luxury company wantsas a rating? Would you recommend
the Plaza to your friends in college? Yes, with a caveat. By
the way, I should point thisout. My sons and I met for
breakfast at ten am the morning afterthe wedding. We were reminiscing, talking

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about the good time we all had. We were literally chased out of the
restaurant at ten fifty five am sothey could set up for eleven o'clock seating.
Once again bad. You ask me, Plasi, you have three guys
who threw a wedding in your hotel. The night before, we're sitting at
a table isolated from everyone else.I understand you want to set up for
lunch. Maybe you could have maydo with one table less. I loved

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the hotel. The rating just thenwas bad, but my rating of average
or good, I'm sure that's notwhat they're looking for. I'm sure that
a luxury hotel, one of thefew in the city, needs to think
about everything, all the components andwhat they're doing to the people that are
there. I spent the luxury price. I don't think I quite got the

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luxury service. But tonight it's aboutjudging bad, average, good, great
or excellent and elite. We'll talksome more when we get back. Always
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you better make it work. AndI put everything in my career to
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this day it is one of themost exciting endeavors I've ever got involved with.
Isod is an incredibly strong golf brand. If you play golf, if
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And one thing about ISAD they alwaysfit. They'll never tug on you.
You put it in your waist,they'll fit you great. The colors
patterns are sensational. Now I willalso tell you ISOD makes great shorts and
great golf pants. You're a golferand you want to look good. You
don't want to have to think abouthow do I look. You want to
think about how you play, nothow you feel. ISOD is the brand

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for you. I know I wasthere when it was created. The strategy
behind that brand is brilliant. It'sone of my favorite brands. While I
talk about I should tell you aboutthe men's sportswear. ISOD wasn't enough being
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They have great printed woven shirts,short sleeves that look excellent with colors,
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and I help you by telling youif you wear Eyesode, you're gonna

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look great. Welcome back to Alwaysin Fashion. Here's your host, Mark
Webber. We judge everything. That'swhat I'm thinking about this week. I
read an article and I noticed thedifferent system than one I used to for
judging. I'm a one to tenguy once in a while, one to
five it's less to choose from.But they did a system based on actual

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words, going from bad to averageto good to excellent or great to elite.
I start to think about what wasgoing on in the world, and
I want to rate different things tonight. That's what the show is about.
I'm going to judge. I'm goingto be judge and jury judge mark right
now, I want to rate thefashion system. There's bad, which is

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crap quality or ugly. There's average, which is disposable fashion it's cheap but
styled well. Then there's good.The basic brands, you know the products,
you recognize them, you trust them, designer which is excellent for quality
and design, and the designer whichis excellent for quality, but the design

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could be ridiculous. To sublime.Luxury is the elite, the best that
money can buy, perfectly crafted,timeless design, something special. And that's
the breakdown tonight in my judging format, but in particular, I want to
discuss the elite luxury. There's notrading up or down when it comes to
luxury. It's not a menu.You're not choosing from column a o'columb Luxury

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is luxury. There's no such thingas lux There's a name. I've been
hearing a lot, Lady Lux.I've already used luxes a want to be
expression. It's for people that arenon luxury that want their non luxury brands.
They want to use it to tradeup and make believe there's something.
Don't be fooled. Abraham Lincoln said, just because you say a dog's tail

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is another leg doesn't make it aleg. You are what you are.
There's first class and there's schmuck class, then some mutants. My favorite talk
affordable luxury. No less than myformer boss, CEO and founder of LVMH,
Louis Vatomo, Ed Hennessey Bernard orNo had something to say about this
statement, and I quote affordable luxury. These are two words that don't go

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together. There's no such thing asaffordable luxury. In fashion and retail,
you are who you are. Yeson the rating scale, there's below Walmart,
you find a bad zero. Andthere's the elites, the tends that
are the luxury brands, and youknow them, you know who they are.
Ptec Philippe, Rolex Ferrari, Bentley, Rolls, Royce Vitone, Dior,

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Chanel product for luggage, Hermes,the saddlemaker for leather and accessories,
Bulgarie Jewelry, Four Seasons Hotels,retail. It's burged off Goodman and even
Marcus. These are companies. Theseare brands that have a history, very
often in Europe, where the historyis far longer than dating back to the

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beginning of our country. These brandswere established with no compromise. Luxury are
products are uniquely crafted and carefully curated. They're expensive, now interesting, there
can be a new one. TomFord has no history, but he's impeccably
positioned and he started an elite neverever compromised on quality or his message.

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But the luxury company Mantra always iswhat is the best way and how can
we make the best product? Thenthey'll talk about course. Now me,
I'm a man of the people.I really like average. I've lived a
portion of my career in that corporatelife. I'm proud to represent the good

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and designer as well. Some companies. I've noticed how a luxury component Michael
Kor's collection is a small component toHalo to Michael Kors, they call it
the good or their better line,which is an eight or ten good versus
elite, all within one brand.Another great example who spans this luxury rating

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scale is Ralph Lauren. He hasfactory stores that I call average, good
product, fair price, Polo isGood, Ralph Lauren Women's Collection, Elite,
Ralph Lauren Purple Label Men's Elite.I become an appreciator of luxury.
There's no question I can be aman of the people. I grew up

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as a man of the people.I appreciate the good parts of life and
the good things that are there.But I've worked hard, I've traveled the
world. I've developed a taste forthe elite. I'm a chameleon. Sometimes
I'm a man of the people,and I buy things in all kinds of
stores, from Target to Uniglow toMacy's, all the way up to burgdof

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Goodman. I love the elite.I love luxury products, and it's the
top of the food chain that Iwant to talk about right now. Service
an elite car, It'll blow yourmind. The garage is as clean as
the finest hotel, lobby, thebest French restaurant. You stand there,
you talk to them. They talkto you like you are to be respected.

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They compliment you on the choice ofcar you selected. They make it
clear how important it is for themto service your needs. You ever buy
a luxury watch, you to seethat experience when it comes to service.
First, to sign in, you'regreeted what can I do for you?
Thank you for being here today.Then they turned you on too a professional

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who'll handle your service request. Thisattendant is in uniform, usually a black
suit for men and women, andthey'll only receive your item and felt gloves,
treating is as they would find jewelry, which it is. They treat
it as if it's special. Thenthere's an authentication process. They take it
in the back, give it toan engineer, a technician who will make

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sure that if it's a Rolex,it's a Rolex. Then they receive the
watch. They take it to theback of the house. Another technician examines
it, then determines the service levelrequired. A whole process is priceless.
It's very different than you go insomewhere else, Hey can you fix my
watch? Via Hambeck if etone hermis there's a uniform associate. They addressed

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perfectly. These people involved, they'reoften multi lingual, they come from various
different countries, impeccably trained, behavioralperfect and product they're technically savvy. They
can talk to you about luxury andthe history of luxury and everything they do
signals the DNA of the brand,like leather and saddles for hermas vetoned trunks

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signaling another era. I love it, I respect it, I admire it,
and I want it. Jesse hada wedding at the Plaza. I
discussed it earlier, but I'm onfashion now and I want to talk to
you about Ralph Lauren Purple label.I only recently became a fan, an

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admirer, and a purchaser a RalphLauren Purple label. Every time I went
into the store, I would say, who are these idiots spending this money
for a suit or a sweater?And I became one of those idiots.
Now there are a couple of reasons. First of all, in the entirety

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of my career, when I wasat PVH, with brands such as Calancline
or Eyes a Tommy Hill figure,I could only wear my brands. No
matter where I went, I wouldbe seen wearing these products, and I
had to be careful. It wouldn'tserve me well to be wearing someone else's
logo At the level of the corporationthat I existed in, whether it was

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president, board member, CEO.You have to be loyal to your own
brands also gave me an incentive whenI work with the brands to make sure
the products were special. And therewere things that I would wear with a
lifestyle and mine crossed, so Icould never wear Ralph from a distance.
I was always an admirer and Ialways wanted to wear certain products, but
I just couldn't. But as Imoved into this career, I became a

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free agent. I'm able to wearwhatever I want. And yes I have
sponsores, and yes I wear theirproducts, and yes I love them,
but their sponsors and I treat themwith respect. And everything I talk about
in the commercials is with respect.That it's real because I wear my sponsor's
product. But I came enamored withRalph Lauren Purple label. Now I've said

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this before. If you listen tothe show, you've heard me talk about
it. There's something unique about thepurchasing experience a purple label. In the
mansion on seventy second Street in Manhattan, it's got its own floor Purple label.
It migrates to one or two floors, sometimes even three, But when
you're on the main floor buying tailoredclothing, it's an otherworldly experience. The

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tailors, the sellers, the expertisethat's exhibited, the way the merchandise is
displayed. If you ask me,Ralph Lauren has the best merchandise product in
the world. And in this casei'm talking which you see in the windows,
what you see in their advertising,the way they put it all together

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is so appetizing. Now Here Iam. I needed a tuxedo from my
son's wedding. You'll see white tiein tails. You'll see double breasted,
you'll see single breasts. You'll seechoyl collar, you'll see black, you'll
see navy, You'll see white dinnerjackets. All of them have boutineers,
all of them have pocket squares,all of them have beautiful matching ties and

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vests wherever appropriate. It's so welllaid out, it's so appetizing. Even
if I didn't want to buy,I'm forced to buy now. As the
good father I am, and thegood father of the groom that I am,
My sons and I went to RalphLauren to buy our tuxedos, and
I sponsored them. My son hadan amazing double breasts of tuxedo, but

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he wanted a single breasted with avest and he bought it, and it
just looks different than any of thetuxedo you'll see from anyone else. My
son's white dinner jacket was impeccable.I said in my speech during the wedding
that I always wanted to wear awhite dinner jacket, but because Jesse did,

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I couldn't. He wanted to beabove and beyond and far from anyone
else at the thing, and wegoofed about it, but he was right.
He looked amazing. White jenna jacketfit him perfectly. I did call
out that ever since Thunderball, Iwanted a white dinner jacket, and then
I went back and looked and itwas really Goldfinger where I was wearing a
white dinner jacket, Rolex watch anda rose in his lapel. I never

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forgot that I always wanted to wearit, but I didn't. I bought
a beautiful made to measure tux sedowould be made from me in Italy by
Ralph. I ended up having togo back and forth to the Ralph's store
to have a tailored far too manytimes. And I've talked on this show
that they have a problem with thetailoring. Let me step back. During

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my college years, I worked inmen's clothing stores and I sold tailed clothing.
I knew all the different examples.I knew how to mark the sleeves.
I knew how to take in thebacks. I knew when the shoulders
needed to be lifted or a shoulderpad added. I knew when the calls
had to be shortened. I knewwhen they had to be tapered or let
out. I really knew all thedimensions. And here I am in Ralph
working with these tailors, and ittook too many times to get it done,

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and I would give them a ratingof bad on their tailoring in that
store. I've mentioned it before,whoever marks it should alter it, and
I think it would fix that problem. But I will tell you. When
I came in to pick up thesuit finally and I put it on,
I looked in the mirror and Isaid, oh my gosh, I can't

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picture a suit fitting any better thanthis suit fit. Not since I had
my fashioned faux pars many years ago, and I tried to chase fashion instead
of developed my own style. Ilooked in the mirror. I was wearing
orange shirt. I went crazy,how bad I looked I went to an
event, and I embarrassed myself.The next day, I got dressed in

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a navy blue suit, white shirt, navy tie, looked in the mirror,
couldn't believe how good I looked.For me, I said to myself,
I can't look better than this.I'm going to give me myself a
rating one to ten. Ten.This is the best I could look.
And because of that, I startedwearing navy suits for the next twenty years.
I changed them up, I hadthem all numbered. They were never
the same ones, but a navysuit every day for twenty years. Not

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since that day did I feel sogood about the way I looked as I
did when I looked at this tuxedowhen I went to the event. I'm
a judging guy to night shows.We judge bad, average, good,
excellent, elite. Oh we judge. I judge. I've looked at everyone

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there, from the people who Iguess who rented tuxedars, to the people
had their own tuxedars, to theway they fit them, the length of
their pants, the way the jacksets fit, the ones that were pulling,
the ones that would too loose,and the fabric. When I looked
at myself and this Ralph Lauren Purplelevel made to measure. I was amazed.
I was shocked. I don't thinkit's possible to look any better than

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I looked that night. Now forgetmy face, forget my hair, forget
the fact that I'm thin. Itwas the way the tuxedo fit, the
way this luxury item fit was theway it was supposed to fit. The
material looked amazing, it had character. The way the pants hung and draped

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looked amazing. The way I lookedin the suit was priceless. And I
can tell you that my sons andI, having had the benefit of shopping
and Ralph Purple label and the mansion, we looked better suited than anyone else.

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I want to judge we were elite. I'll take a break and we'll
continue some judgment where we get backalways in fashion. 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 asuit. Suits can be one on multiple

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occasions in multiple ways. You couldwear a suit formally to go out at
night or to an event, towear a suit to the office with or
without a tie. If you lookclosely, now fashion trends suits are being
worn with turtlenecks or mocknecks. Thechoices are endless and every one of them
looks right. You could really reallylook the part. I believe that packaging

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yourself this is important. Does theproducts you package and wearing a suit is
one of those things that make menlook their best. Venues and invented a
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it's cool moisture wicking. It makesit perfect for all occasions. As we
discussed just now, this new styleof looking shop while feeling cool and comfortable
is amazing and I'm so excited thatthe van Using company is involved in this
new technology and is embracing the wholeidea of dressing up. Let's not forget
van Uson made its name with dressshirts. It's only proper that the suit

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business follows strongly in its way.You can find van Us and cool Flex
Men's stretch suits at JC Penney areonline at jcpenny dot com. Guys,
they're great. You should go lookat them. Welcome back to Always in
Fashion. Here's your host, MarkWebber. We judge tonight. I'm judging

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the world and everything in it.I can't help it. I spend the
day the week hanging out seeing what'sgoing on around. Man. I can't
help them make judgments. You knowdifferent. Don't go lead us on me.
Can't you all do the same thing? Well, judge, we're humans.
One of the bad thing about us, I guess one of the good
things. We make decisions based onthat. But gosh, when I was

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twenty three years old and I hadmet my wife, I remember saying to
her, if we could all stopeating, drinking and breathing, we'd live
forever. Go No, I turnout to be a prophet. Everything we
eat is killing us. Everything wedrink it's not healthy. And lord knows
what we're breathing right now. Ohmy gosh, smoke and fire. Whoever

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thought of this? Now? Thepundits on climate change and global warming and
all this stuff, I tend towant to empathize agree with. I live
on the water. I'm always concernedabout water levels rising, and if in
fact the Earth is getting warm.I'm concerned the glaciers start to melt in,

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the water levels rise, It's goingto affect me. It's already affecting
the rest of the world. Coastalcities. Remember the Sandy storm where the
water came over East River flooded outhuge apartment buildings as skyscrapers in Lower Manhattan.
It's crazy, But blaming Canada,well, nice to blame Canada.

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Just healthy thing to blame someone aboutourselves. But the reality is they have
fires. How do you police billionsof miles of trees and forests around the
globe? You can't, and itgets a little far fetched and you lose
your credibility. But the reality is, this is what I was thinking.
You know, we're here on Earth. We got rock and ground under our

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feet. We walk in the grass, we walk in the beach, on
sand, We look up at thesky. Well, everything is lovely.
We forget for a moment that we'rea planet. We're a planet. We're
in the middle of space. Anyone of us who ever saw a space
movie knows how incompatible space is.And we have this atmosphere that's saving us
from the rest of the space.Well, one planet with universe that just

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never ends. We're floating around outthere, revolving around the Sun. Do
we forget about that? Do weforget that we're vulnerable that natural disaster and
this stuff happens because it's part ofspace. We're really not on this ground
somewhere and everybody else is out there. Leads some credibility to UFOs and what's

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going on with all of that.But when I sit and think about what's
going on, the fact that wecan't breathe right now we're supposed to be
in the house making me crazy.So I guess the question is on judging
the people who are leading the chargeon climate control or turning the planet green.
Please pick your spots to be smart, don't ruin it anyway. Tonight

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is about judging. There are somany times in business. I'll look business
for a second where you can't getpeople to gree on anything. It's very,
very frustrating. There have been timesthat I've had meetings where designers I've
talked to you about this come in, they present their line and it's terrible,

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and there's ten people in the roomAnd when you look at someone else
and I say, you know what, I'm the one making the judgment.
This is terrible one to ten.What do you give it to? Designers?
Is nine and a half? Isaid, well, I give it
a zero. What do you otherpeople think? Nobody's willing to step up
and give an opinion because it's embarrassing. It's in public forum, and they
don't want to be the ones tosay it's a four or five. They

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don't want insulted designer who they haveto work with afterwards. And it's a
problem. But my friends and Iinvented a game called the ballot game,
where in college and basically speaking,you sit around a room, you pick
some subjects you want to talk about, give everyone a pencil and paper,
and you ask for the comments.You take them, crumple them up,
throw it in a hat, andyou get them back unedited and uninspired to
a particular human. So if yousaid something nasty or not nice or whatever,

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it's not attributed to you. Soit's comfortable. And I've used this
game in business. I'll never forgetthe story. I'm at tkmy and I
remember in meeting Donna, Karen,you want to talk about a tough interview.
I had a series of meetings withher before I joined the company.
She was brutal, and in theend LVMH stepped in and just said,

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this is our guy, Donna,we're taking it. You remember, they
owned the company. I joined thecompany, and we had a good relationship
at times. You had great relationshipat times, and most of the times
it was adversarial. I was amanagement, she was the talent. We
didn't necessarily agree on how she wasspending money, where her time was spent,
what she thought was important. Butshe's done a Karen, and she's
more than entitled to her opinion.She earned it and I respected her a

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great deal for what she built,how many people built companies were six hundred
million, seven hundred million billion dollarsamazing sold it to LVMH. So she
was really like me, a worker. They wanted her, they needed her,
They wanted her face, they wanteda likeness, they wanted her image,
they wanted her involved. So wehad to be nice to her.
That's one of the secrets at LVMATES. You have to make sure the talented

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designers are happy. Yet you wereresponsible for running the business anyway. I
heard all the stuff from her rollalong the way about what are an amazing
company runs, and how everything isperfect and this and that, And then
when they were having a meeting,and I'm looking at the financials of a
business, and I'm sure, likeany of you, it's probably the same.
You make money on the simple things. Those things that are a stretch

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you make less of, you makeless money, So you make sure you
have a lot of basics. Ialways said that in fashion, what you
do is you make basics cleverly disguisedas high fashion items. And I remember
looking at the women's line. I'mlooking at all the collections and I'm looking,
we sell no pants. I said, We're in the sports where business

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for women. How can we notsell pants. Well, we've tried them,
We've never been successful. And Ican see something's wrong here. And
finally I created the ballot game.We had twenty women in the room and
me, so I take out myhat. I asked my assistant to bring
twenty pieces of paper, twenty pensand pencils. We hand them out and

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I said, okay, ladies andgentlemen, I have a question for you.
This is going to be easy foryour answer, because no one's gonna
know who said what. I'm gonnaask you a question, you'll write down
your answer. You crumple it up, I'll pass around the hat. You
put your answer in. The hatwent around the room. Everybody put their
answer in. I shook up thehat. I said to my assistant,
would you keep tracking the answers.I took mine out because I did it

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certain ways. I knew which wasmine, and I wrote, I don't
know, and she put down Idon't know. And I told everybody that's
me. Now we'll go on shelpus. The next one they don't fit,
The next one they don't fit,the next one they don't fit. Nineteen
women wrote on that piece of paper, it don't fit well. Now I
know they don't fit, so Isaid to them, I don't understand.

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How could the greatest company in theworld, according to Donna, have women's
pants that don't fit well. Wenever seem to get it right now.
Right away, I knew one ofthe problems, I said. Knitwear and
woven ware are very different. Wovensare very rigid, even stretch woven's they'll

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only stretch to a point. Knitwearstretches tremendously when you make knit garments.
If you don't when you have thefabric, lay them out on the table
and allow them to rest in itsnatural state for a day or two.
You'll never have pants that fit properly, or shirts or anything because the minute
you cut them into shapes, theyshrink and they'll never be right. So

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first thing, you need dwell timeonion knitwear. Secondly, they react differently,
need different patterns to make both.And they said, you're right,
So I said, why haven't youdone this? Nobody can answer the question,
So I said to them, here'swhat I want you to do.
I want you to get everyone sizein the room except for me, and
I want you to make each andevery one of you ladies here a pair
of knit pants and a pair ofwoven pants. Have them made up and

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aware test. What I mean bythat is you're going to have them all
made up in your size at thefactory we used to make pants, send
them back. Each one of youladies are going to try them on,
and in front of our technical designers, they're going to fit you and look
at you and see what's right andwrong. Sounds so simple, isn't it?
And it worked because after that westarted a pant's business and twenty percent
of our sports web business became pants. So that's where judging and commenting and

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coming up a way to evaluate reallycame in handy, and it really really
worked. Now. I have someother observations this week, and I want
to talk about them just in general. I don't trust the government. It's
not the government, really, Idon't trust. It's big business. I
don't trust now. I should becauseI trusted the companies I was with.

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But when I think about for twentyyears, I took bare Baby Astern eighty
two milligram because my doctor told meto do it, and then one day
out of the blow take them anymore. They're not safe. What are you
crazy? I've been doing it fortwenty years. What happened? We get
new information? Okay, I'm afan of diet coke. You want me

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to make a judgment. McDonald's dietcoke is the best diet coke in the
world. This week I read anarticle that diet coke kills you. It
breaks down the cell structure that allowschemicals and other very harmful byproducts that are

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working through your digestive system to enterinto cells and destroy them, and the
worst of these known to mankind,it causes I don't even like mentioning it
by name. So I want toput a judgment on these companies from Bed
to Elite. You went from eliteand diet code to Bed. I'm giving

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it up. I'm breaking my habit. What's going on here? On another
note, did anybody notice how oldMay and June has been so far?
I'm wearing a jacket every day Igo out. Nobody mentions that. I
wonder why you don't have to agreewith me. It's only my opinion,
but these observations are hard not toagree with. While I'm judging electric cars

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from bad to elite, electric carsbad, let me tell you why great
idea executed poorly. There's too muchconcern for charging anxiety. People are anxious
every time they get in the car. They don't know if they'll bring them
home, and there's no way tocharge him. Bad the planning, it's
ready fire aim. They've given nothought to what has to do. It's

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a great idea, it's a ladidea to have electric cars, but without
a plan, without understanding the environmentaleffects of increased electricity, overloading the grid,
without understanding the long term effects ofmaking batteries and disposing of them.
Electric ours are bad. Global warming, climate control bad, the worst marketing,

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confusing message of anything I've ever seen. Everything is causing temperatures to rise.
Plan needs one. I can't evenrate it yet. What should we
do? How do we actually tacklethe fires? There's no way to control
it, but you're calling it andblaming it on global warming. We had
more rain this year than any yearI can remember. Glaciers are melting,

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raising water levels. Maybe that's somethingwe should talk about. Maybe we should
be talking about building barriers to preventcoastal areas from flooding in the future.
What should we do? Climate issuesare for the elite. It's the best
intentions, the approach bad. WhileI'm on the subject of bad, having

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enemies bad, we shouldn't have anyenemies. Russia doesn't have enemies. China
doesn't have enemies. They're friends witheveryone. They're milking everyone. They're getting
whatever they want for anyone spending moneyRussia. Why isn't the war ending?
Why isn't President Biden and President Zelinskitalking about what they're going to have,
what they need, what they wantand end this war? And Russia get

(44:15):
in the loop with President Biden andthe war people are dying. Trump said
it the other day, stop thewar, and day one if he's elected.
It doesn't like seeing people dying.This is crazy. So President Biden,
stop falling down on as one steps, stop falling off your bike.
Don't run again. We love you, but it's embarrassing for you. You're

(44:38):
too old. You've done your time. You've helped this country. You've done
whatever you think you need to do. Let someone more youthful come in do
the job, and lastly, helpputinheld the war. Please. On a
lighter note, I mentioned sports atthe beginning of the show Yankees rating bad

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count on. You can't win agame, can't be consistent, can't put
a team on the field that winsconsistently. You're making me crazy. We'll
take a break. When you comeback, we'll finish up rating what's going
on in the world. Always infashion. I've been shopping for fun lately,
and while I'm out, I alwayslook at men's and I look at
women's. What's going on? AndI was particularly interested in Decay because of

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their sponsorship of the show. Iwent downstairs at Macy's thirty fourth Street to
look around, and I saw aDecmy active where and I promise you,
ladies, it is sensational, fromthe sports braws to the crop tops,
to the leggings and the sweats.It really is a great look and dec
and Y had begun as an allAmerican brand dressing casual clothes engines and the

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stuff looks incredible and right now thecolors and the styles is so exciting that
I feel great about the company.I always do. I wear the men's
wear all the time. I've hadsituations where I've gone to big events,
been interviewed TV or radio and someonecomes up to me and the microphone and
like they always do, who youwearing? And here I am, this

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big shot with a big company andthey said, well, I'm wearing a
DKNY and they laugh and say,no, you're not. Actually have one
on the internet where you could seeme. They asked me what suit I'm
wearing, and I say, DCAndy had opened it up and there's the
DKNY label. Great fashion, itfits well, it looks right. It's
designed to make you comfortable in thecity, goes from day and to night.

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You can wear it in the morning, wear in the afternoon, and
you look cool at night as well. It's great for the office is great
Felisia. But I was talking aboutthe dcmy activewear. The first time I
really became aware of it. Jesseand I were up at Sirius Radio.
He was doing a job for Serioushe does Dan Abrams show, he fills
in on the Potus Network, andwe're in the lobby and this hip hop

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group came up. Well, thisreally great looking Latino singer girl Young beautiful,
and she was wearing a DKNY sportsbar and I said to myself,
this is amazing. Actually went toMacy's to see it, and I'm excited
about the brand. And I'll tellyou what, ladies, dk Y always
has great fashion for work, alwayswonderful dresses and things that you'd wear.

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Their accessories are great, the shoesare always very cool. But activewear in
particular right now looks sensational. Andbeing that everyone's athleisure in activewear, it's
a great time DCMY go take alook. As one of the world's most
celebrated fashion designers, car Lagafeld wasrenowned for his aspirational and cutting edge approach
to style. His unique vision ofParisian ship comes to America through Carlagofeld Paris.

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He has women's collections, men's collections, ready to wear, accessory,
shoes and bags. The fashion houseCarlagofeld also offers a range of watches.
I wearing premium fragrances. You canexplore the car Lagofel collection a Karlagofeld Paris
dot com. But it's more thanthat. I for one, love to
shop. I love going around andseeing what's happening and what catches my attention,

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what would make me feel good towear now. I don't wear the
women's were obviously, but I canappreciate it and they look amazing. If
you want to look right, youwant to have clothes that fits you well.
You want to look like you're wearingsomething that's very expensive, that's exclusive
for you and yours. You canfind it at very affordable prices at Macy's

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So Carlgafel dot com Paris. Thewomen's ready to wear fashion is extraordinary,
as well as the hand egs inthe shoes. I for one, wear
men's clothes on like my appreciation ofwomen's clothes. I'm a modern guy.
I want to look current. Iwant to look the way I want to
feel. I go out at night. I'm in black and Carlagafelt is my

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buddy. Clothes are great, theyfit great, and they have little tweaks
and touches, whether it's a stripeon the sleeve or button at the neck
or on the shoulder. There's alot of details that go into Carl Agafel
because he's always been, he alwayshad been one of the world's great designers,
and this legacy and goes on andon. I can't speak enough about
it except to say to you,you want to feel good about yourself.

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You want to know that your dressproperly. You want close that fits you
well. Carl Lagafeld Paris at Macy'sor Karl Lagafel dot com. Welcome back
to Always in Fashion. Here's yourhost, Mark Webber. We judge everything.
I started off tonight in a reallygood mood, and then when I
got into it, I really gotangry. I started thinking about something I

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said when I was young. Ifwe all didn't eat, drink or breathe,
we'd live forever. Here we are. Something crazy fires in Canada,
affecting a hundred million Americans. Wecan't go out safely. It's the summertime,
it's springtime, you want to play, you want to be out there
a sports whatever. We're being askedto stay indoors once again, and we're
being asked or worn to wear amask when we go out crazy, no

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wonder, I'm angry. Then wejust stuck at home. You watch the
news, where's the good news?Maybe we should start a new channel.
Here's something to think about. iHeart. Why don't we start a channel cool
good news? And all we talkabout is good stuff? Why do we
talk about the things that aspire us? In fact, maybe I'm going to
do a show just called good news. Maybe next week it's going to be

(50:07):
called good news and only talk aboutgood things. Maybe be a great thing
for this world, in this country, just to talk about things that are
pleasant, that are happy, andforget leave all your troubles behind. Having
said that, tonight I talked aboutjudging. We judge everything. We judge
everything from the degree that our toastis toasted, through the color of your

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eyes to the size of your wallet, to the people you hang out with.
We judge everything, friends, relatives, family, Everything gets a judgment,
whether we like it or not,self consciously or not. We make
decisions based on those judgments. Ihave rating systems one to ten, one

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to five, and in this casebad, average, excellent, elite.
It's a system. I thought itwas interesting to share that with you,
and I hope you found tonight interesting. That aside, I'll judge this show
next week. Good Night,