The Harmon show began under a cloud: First, editors had to cram into agonizingly slow elevators for a crawl to a 24th floor Garment District studio. Then, as the crowd searched for their seats, the building s fire system malfunctioned, resulting in blaring alarms and loudspeaker announcements for the next several minutes.
Once proceedings got underway, though, Andrew Harmon quickly soothed his rattled audience with a smartly done, commercially viable collection (his first to include women s as well as men s looks). For the guys, there were neat and polished ensembles, like a black cotton poplin dress shirt worn under an ivory V-neck sweater vest, under a sand check wool jacket. When the palette veered from the neutrals, it went toward red—which looked boldly stylish in a wool gabardine notched-lapel jacket over a sage-and-white jacquard dress shirt. This show may not have set the world—or, thankfully, the building—on fire, but there was plenty to warm the retailer s heart.
