Arthur Cinader, who built a pastel-colored, turtlenecked fashion empire as the founder of J. He added a J. to the Crew because he thought the letter looked nice on the page. Thousands of rolls of film were shot each year for the glossies, and Cinader personally penned much of the copy, extolling a J. Cinader never got the credit he deserved,” said Sid Mashburn, a designer who worked at J. Crew is a design spirit,” he told the New York Times in 1990, trying to sum up the company’s esthetic.

Source: thestar October 19, 2017 13:52 UTC