"If they can get back to where they were two or three years ago, it will be a very profitable business, because it's outerwear-driven and has high margins".
It was a mild late-winter day, the windows on the bus open, everybody's outerwear shed on the seats.
Basically, it's black outerwear, coupled with greasy hair stuffed under a cap and, weirdly specifically, a bottle of milkshake.
The coat was cute (in a place like Switzerland, it's the outerwear that matters) but I wasn't blown away by the matchy-matchy look.
2. Fall is outerwear's raison d'être, and Macko's favorite piece is this Donegal tweed down vest by Junya Watanabe Man Comme des Garçons/Moncler ($470) -- part of the season's trend toward parkas in men's-wear fabrics.
Julie Tierney, aged 25 from Grand Junction, CO, has a collection that kind of recalls Gretchen of yore if all she did was outerwear (except Julie's stuff I like, and Seth Aaron dubbed it trucker hillbilly in RTTR).
Their stuff is relatively affordable, too: The brand's cheapest items are suede-brim hats at around $65, and its most expensive offerings are outerwear pieces like suit-lined suede bombers, which cost about $600.
But it was the outerwear in crisp military lines, softened by buttery leather, and the sly references to equestrian elegance that gave such panache to the show.
(Outerwear, as it's called, accounts for sixty per cent of the company's sales of women's clothing, and forty per cent of men's).
We're talking shaggy coats, darling – whether crinkly sheep, long-haired goat or full-on fur, it's set to be the cognoscenti's outerwear of choice.
