J. Crew Attempts to Claw Back Market Share

Two days ago, J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler admitted the obvious — that the company’s women’s fashions from the last year have “failed.” If you’ve been regularly reading Catalog Police, my weekly review of mail order catalogs, this will come as zero surprise. Just a few years ago, the company had morphed from a boring […]

Catalog Police: Dedicated to Joan Rivers

When I first debuted the Catalog Police feature on Instagram, the inspiration was Joan Rivers’ playful snarkiness on Fashion Police. She made an art out of saying exactly what everyone else was thinking, and this fearlessness sizzled in her red carpet critiques. No one was safe from her microscope — least of all, herself. Today’s installment is devoted to Catalog Police’s patron […]