How can one company email another company's customers? Doesn't make sense.
Maybe they are on good terms with someone at the GCHQ.
How can one company email another company's customers? Doesn't make sense.
Maybe they are on good terms with someone at the GCHQ.
Well, no one here has had the e-mails.
There doesn't seem to be a way for Aero to get AL customers e-mail addresses.
AL hasn't provided a screenshot or screen capture of one of these mails.
So I'm just going to have to believe they are not being truthful. Given the revisionism on their webpage about their connection with WL, they seem to have a problem with telling the truth.
So I think that this is a case of AL slamming Aero publicly to deflect from their bad practice and connections to a convicted criminal.
Yes, the question about who the brilliant designer is who created all of those patterns from scratch is the one I'd love to see answered, but I'm sure given enough time they will tell us that someone on staff did all of that work. They are clearly deflecting, as they felt a need to make a statement ahead of the sentencing date. They could have used that date as an excuse to keep quiet and devise a strategy, but chose this clumsy route instead.
"clumsy" is a good adjective. They could benefit from a branding make-over, and new jacket styles playing up the Simmons-bilt heritage. Simmons made very cool jackets from the 20s on. Would be great to see some of those styles coming off the line. Aero came through this mess by coming up with fantastic new jacket offerings. The "new" Simmons has an opportunity to do likewise. Get your pencils out designers, it's "Make it work time"!
"clumsy" is a good adjective. They could benefit from a branding make-over, and new jacket styles playing up the Simmons-bilt heritage. Simmons made very cool jackets from the 20s on. Would be great to see some of those styles coming off the line. Aero came through this mess by coming up with fantastic new jacket offerings. The "new" Simmons has an opportunity to do likewise. Get your pencils out designers, it's "Make it work time"!
Personally, I think we should start demanding to know who this wonder designer prodigy at AL is!
If I was a customer, an investor, or an outlet, hell, even as a regular customer, wouldn't you want to know?
The fact that they have managed to keep this designers name so secret (after all, which fashion designer doesn't want recognition and adulation?) is a mystery to me?
Doesn't this designer want to build a reputation for themselves? What, is this guy like Batman, doing his good work anonymously, whilst leading a perfectly normal life, unbeknownst by millions?
Who is the Leather Crusader? The Seal Brown Knight?
I repeat, I want to see an interview with this guy and know where he learnt to design, what his philosophy is, and what his inspiration and values are!
Now, I also want to know, why does he shun the limelight befitting such a star, and lead a reclusive life as a man of mystery?
True...and perhaps if they pulled themselves away from such obvious Aero look-a-likes into more their own unique style, that might help get much of the Lauder debacle behind them. LW, Himel, Aero (among others) have maintained their own distinction even while reproducing jackets from vintage style patterns. Add some fresh air of real honesty into the equation and that, too, more than likely, would come across as good advertizing to keep and even gain customers. A 'no brainer'.
HD
Great point HD. When you look at the companies you named above, while there is some overlap, they each have a distinct identity. AL never forged their own. Maybe it's time to start. The difficulty is that Ken has been so busy cranking out new jackets lately that AL may have been painted into a corner.
Great point HD. When you look at the companies you named above, while there is some overlap, they each have a distinct identity. AL never forged their own. Maybe it's time to start. The difficulty is that Ken has been so busy cranking out new jackets lately that AL may have been painted into a corner.
No, Horse-shack!
If AL relaunch, after the sentencing, as Simmons Bilt and can come up with their own designs, their own thing - well who knows? There is room for other makers but they all have their own distinct identities. Himel certainly, Goodwear have an unassailable niche, I really like the BK Heracles. However, from those pictures that Sloan posted, it will be an uphill struggle. The first one has the look of Leatherface about it. But, that Fortune Hunter looked very nice.
I wonder why those Cabourn jackets were in such limited numbers?
Because they'd be hard-pressed to sell even a handful of the monstrosities?