“The Bigger You Get, the Smaller You Act”: How a Downtown Liquor Store Supercharged J.Crew’s Menswear Boom

In The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew, Maggie Bullock explores the rollercoaster life of the iconic American brand—including the enormous success it found selling clothes out of a converted liquor store in Tribeca. Mickey Drexler was a born shopkeeper. The C.E.O of J.Crew from 2003 to 2017, he ran a massive American retailer like a merchant behind the counter of his own mom-n-pop, quizzing his customers face-to-face, forever juiced by the energy of the sales floor. To him, stores were the whole point. So around 2007, he was irked. At his… Read Full Article