“Ease, simplicity, comfort,” said Billy Reid in his warm, languorous Louisiana drawl about his new Fall collection. When cajoled, he went into polite detail, but really, those three words summed it up nicely.
Billy Reid is something of an anomaly, a happy outlier on the New York men's scene. Sure, he's got two bustling stores in Manhattan and another on the way in Chicago (which he says has taken an agonizing six years to make happen).