MISTER MORT

Joanna Newsom in {not your average} trench coat ~ Comme des Garcons

Thanks to all your comments, I now find out Joanna is a singer and harpist, also a cousin of San francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. I will def. go hear her music when she next performs.

Hart Schaffner Marx & Hickey Freeman: Archival Photographs & Illustrations

I was excited to be able to visit the archive collection that has just been brought over from Chicago.
 It's a hundred years of Hickey Freeman and Hart Schaffner Marx artwork, marketing materials,
 memorabilia etc. 

Hart Marx owns both Hickey Freeman and Hart Schaffner Marx brands. They bought Hickey Freeman from the heirs in the 1960's and Hart schaffner Marx was one of their original brands. they were three men who started the company. mr. marx. mr schaffner and mr. hart. immigrants - the classic story. the new company is Hart Marx LLC and is based in New York with manufacturing outside of Chicago and in Rochester. The Hart Schaffner Marx stuff was sent to NY from the Chicago office when they consolidated from 3 floors to one floor. The Hickey Freeman archives was sent from the factory in Rochester. Both brands have dressed a long list of politicians such as Eisenhower, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Ronald Reagan - Colin Powell. Obama is the newest to wear Hart Schaffner Marx and VP Joe Biden wore Hickey Freeman at the inauguration this year.