Joseph Abboud Men's Pure Wool Full Length Luxury Over Coat Classic Winter Grey

Joseph Abboud Men's Pure Wool Full Length Luxury Over Coat Classic Winter Grey Secure Collar Med Grey Long Coats For Men Secure Collar Tab (Removable) Made in USA Immaculate! While in high school, he worked first for Thom McAn dyeing women’s shoes and then the Anderson-Little men’s store, where he sold suits] As a college student, he worked part-time at Louis Boston. Abboud stated: "Louis Boston was a huge part of my career. I really landed in a world of very glamorous style, and beautiful clothes, just the world of what international fashion was about. If this had never happened, then the rest of it wouldn't have happened." Abboud became a buyer at Louis Boston at age 23. Over the course of twelve years, he served as buyer, merchandiser, and eventually coordinator of promotion and advertising Abboud graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in 1972, then studied at the Sorbonne in Paris Abboud joined Ralph Lauren in 1981, eventually becoming associate director of menswear design. He launched his own label in the spring of 1987. In 1988, JA Apparel was created as a joint venture between Abboud and GFT (Gruppo Finanziario Tessile) Abboud wrote Threads: My Life Behind the Seams in the High-Stakes World of Fashion in which he thoroughly describes the fashion industry from designing and selling clothes to naming colors. He also writes of the negative experiences that he has endured such as racial profiling, a court battle over legal rights to his name, and more.