Greenwich says ‘bienvenidos’ to sportswear line
byWritten by Jena A. Butterfield On a recent late-winter day that was unseasonably caliente, Greenwich Avenue bustled with short-sleeved shoppers outside the newly opened…
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The joy of Saks
byJeff O’Geary knows retail. For 1½ years, he ran the designer apparel floors at Saks Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Prior to that, he’d been…
The (C.) Wonder years
byChris Burch attracts shoppers, Fidelity investments By Georgette Gouveia Maverick entrepreneur Christopher Burch likes to bring out the animal in us, with python-embossed totes…
Making tracks on prints
byBrian Rennie – the former head designer of Escada who is now the creative director of Basler – loves color, texture, life. Not for…
Back to black
byThis fall, get back to black with antique and contemporary bling from Greenwich’s Betteridge Jewelers. Stay sophisticated day or night with stunning, sleek jewelry in onyx, black diamond and blackened gold for men and women.
Fashioning a family business
byA dapper Jack Mitchell crosses his legs and turns his bespectacled eyes towards a wall of framed family portraits and yellowed clippings in a back office at Richards on Greenwich Avenue. He and his brother, Bill – whom Jack calls “Mr. Westport” – serve as co-CEOs of the Mitchells Family of Stores, an enduring local retail business with more than $100 million in sales annually. The two men took over the family business from their parents, Ed and Norma Mitchell, who in 1958 opened Mitchells, a specialty retail shop, in a small space in Westport that was once a plumbing supply store.
The art of window dressing
by“I always wear rubber bands. I usually have like 20. These are my jewelry,” says Tom Beebe, vice president of creative services at HMX Group, the holding company behind major retail brands like Hart Schaffner & Marx, Hickey Freeman and Bobby Jones. You can also call him the right-hand man to designer Joseph Abboud, who serves as president and chief creative officer of HMX.