The Merchant
Nick Paumgarten writes about Millard Drexler, the C.E.O. of the clothing company J. Crew, and his views on fashion as a business.
"I had a dream last night about the color heather gray," Mickey Drexler announced over J. Crew's loudspeaker system. At sixty-six, he often speaks in fragments—tangents spawning tangents. "That's life in America," he says of mercantile difficulties, as though citing the laws of nature or the will of God.