Coach is not Couture

The New Yorker has a solid piece on Coach’s Reed Krakoff that is, unfortunately, behind its paywall. I write “unfortunately”, because all those women who rock Coach are not able to read the piece and realize the brand is the exact opposite of fashionable–a sentiment I stopped trying to convince people of years ago.

Because, and thankfully, Coach buyers are not a subset of New Yorker subscribers, here are a couple choice nuggets:

Krakoff’s detractors think that he is a brand architect who made a fortune at Coach by marketing middlebrow goods to barely fashionable consumers…”

and

At Coach, Krakoff designs for a clientele–ranging from upmarket homemakers to their babysitters–whose sensibility is markedly different from his.

Mattress Sizing

If you are in the market for a new mattress and may be switching mattress companies, do yourself a favor and double check the sizes of your current mattress and the one you are about to buy. It could save you a lot of time, energy, and money. Even though nearly all mattress manufacturers use the same names for sizes (e.g., King, Queen), the dimensions of those size vary dramatically. Wikipedia has a great mattress dimension chart you should consult before making your next purchase, especially if you’re switching manufacturers and/or the geographic area in which you are buying a mattress.