Obviously, bold displays of ostentatious wealth, power, elitism, or exclusivity seem misplaced in the present environment. So much so that one wonders if, some years hence, we might not look back on this period as the “anti-too-big-to-fail” period. Or the “anti-big” period. Or the “anti-too” period. Or just a reactionary spasm of frothing (and highly communicable) anti-crowd rabidity.
Attacks on Goldman Sachs are routine (and quite a bit more potent than in prior years). Warren Buffett is a cheater (haven’t you heard?) Institutions from the Federal Reserve to the Treasury to the SEC have been literally run through with vicious, biting (and potentially well-deserved) criticism from all corners. Just watching these goings on, you would think that, after rising above a certain strata, any inclination towards self-preservation would repress a lust for fame. Or any notice at all. Or… maybe not:
Harvard University, the world’s richest school, licensed its name to a maker of designer clothes to take advantage of a taste for seersucker, khakis, loafers and other “preppy” attire.
The clothing line, labeled Harvard Yard, will be made by New York-based Wearwolf Group Ltd., which licensed the Cambridge, Massachusetts, school’s name through its Verus Group subsidiary, Verus said today in an e-mailed statement. The financial terms weren’t disclosed.
Well, at least they got this last part right. Regardless, we aren’t so sure the timing was well played here…
“Harvard is the ideal — the pinnacle,” Wolf said. “When you think of modern prep, you think of New England and the Northeast. You think campus, quads, and you think Harvard.”
…and Wolf obviously needs to get out more.
Harvard Licenses Clothing Line Amid ‘Preppy’ Upswing [Bloomberg]
Earlier: My Harvard Tie
Popping my collar,
Popping my collar,
Popping my collar,
Woooot! Woooot!
BlackPoint
Jefferies > Camp Cupcake > parents’ basement > Raymond James > tent in Bushwick > Bank of Amerillwide > Noted Hooker-Fucker Spitzer > FPMITA Prison > Chinese electric chair > UBS > Harvard,
I’ll be here all week.
@2: No need to, we’ll be off to PSV. Popping our collars, naturellement.
BlackPoint
I bet they can get Robert Chambers to model.
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EP, you got Harvard envy?
I’m EP (and I like to hedge within paranthesis), or maybe I’m not….
Nothing says I am a douchebag like a $200 Harvard Yard shirt. Hope you can pop ze collar, though.
LPP
On hip hop performers in 2010.
Fashionsista
seersucker must be hot in bangalore this Fall.
Oxford did that 20 years ago. Janitors now wear Oxford t-shirts too; don’t look that “preppy”
@6, EP went to Harvard. Twice.
Just sayin’
@12
EP Harvard years? Favorite eating place? Just askin.
Wearing anything with Harvard on it is sexual kryptonite.
My cleaning lady’s chauffeur’s gardener with syphilis went to Harvard.
- Carter Pewterschmidt aka Fixed Income
Will Muff be sporting this gear?
I can think of a lot better names than harvard yard. You might want to pick a school that is much more known for their undeniable tastes and part sense.
I can think of a lot better names than harvard yard. You might want to pick a school that is much more known for their undeniable tastes and party sense.
When the collar goes hoist,
The panties get moist
Waste of electronic ink.
That Yale Thing.