Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Arthur Cinader, Who Started J. Crew, Avatar of Preppy Style, Dies at 90

Arthur Cinader, the founder of J. Crew, the clothing retailer that rose to prominence marketing a classic preppy chic to upper-middle-income consumers, died on Wednesday in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 90. Mr. Cinader decided to start J. Crew in the early 1980s while running the Popular Merchandise Company, a business, founded by his father in Rye, N.Y., that used a catalog to sell affordable clothing and home furnishings directly to consumers.
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