 "Canada Goose was a warm and shapeless coat, now it is hot fashion")
Not long ago, I dashed off a quick email to Mickey Drexler, the former chief executive of J Crew and perhaps the greatest merchant of his generation, to ask him if he had any thoughts about why Canada Goose overcoats had become so popular.
You know the coats I mean, don’t you? Those big winter coats, usually black or blue, with the circular red, white and blue arm badges that say “Canada Goose Arctic Program." The ones that cost upwards of $1,000. In New York, you see them everywhere, even now in April, with weather still nippy but hardly cold
