Articles of Style presents "Break-Out Conversations", Ep 1: Alexander Sumner

I had a realization the other day: Due to the virus outbreak I have all of this downtime to write and create content...and so does everyone else in the world. So I did something that I wouldn't normally be able to do so easily - I started calling people that I admire in the middle of the day just to casually talk about their life, their career, their ambitions, their personal style, etc. I'm calling this interview series "Break-Out Conversations" and it will feature interviews with friends, clients, colleagues in the menswear business and anybody else I've met over the years that I find inspiring. As I wrote yesterday - now more than ever we need to communicate with each other and share positive, uplifting stories. Stay optimistic, because this virus scare will come to an end, and perhaps we will be a little stronger because of it. In the first episode of "Break-Out Conversations", I chatted with my long time friend Alexander Sumner. Alex is a New Yorker through and through who's served his community as an educator, a doorman at high-end NYC nightclubs, a designer, custom clothier and - if you know him well - someone you can always turn to for advice and perspective. We chopped it up about running a clothing business during this crisis, what we can learn from it and how we might just come out of this thing more socially aware (and perhaps even better dressed). Thanks, as always, for reading & watching. Special thanks to Alex for participating. Yours in style, Dan Tre