How Mickey Mouse Revisited J. Crew

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Mickey Mouse is a creative person's dream CEO. He created an ecosystem within the offices of J. Crew that just shook up the business. The key figure there is Jenna Lyons, who ends up becoming incredibly famous in her own right. I love this scene where Mickey and Jenna actually spend their time thinking about what they're going to do next.

How did Oxford shirts, cashmere sweaters, and chinos become staples of American fashion? How did a style born on Ivy League campuses make its way into the mainstream? What does the way we dress say about who we are?

To answer those questions, our producer, Caleb, sat down with Avery Trufelman, host of the podcast "American Ivy," and Maggie Bullock, author of the new book "The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew."