There are brands that participate in a trend, and then there are brands that helped create the vocabulary in the first place. At J. Press, Ivy style isn’t a seasonal proposition—it’s the foundation.
Founded by Jacobi Press at Yale in 1902, J. Press has spent more than a century shaping the codes of classic American collegiate dressing. Today, under President and Creative Director Jack Carlson, the heritage label is bringing renewed attention to that history while introducing it to a new generation.
For its latest New York Fashion Week presentation, J. Press offered a fall wardrobe steeped in prep: navy wool toggle coats, quilted outerwear, tweed, chinos and layers upon layers of knits. Navy, gold, red, brown, pink, plum and gray colored the collection, while mixed plaids, scarves, headbands and leather loafers reinforced its distinctly New England sensibility.
“The inspiration is the British roots of American Ivy style,” Carlson exclusively told Fashion Bomb Daily. “The look we consider Ivy style—so much of that came from what Jacobi Press thought guys at Yale should be wearing in 1902, and so much of that was inspired by the UK. We still make a lot of products in England, Scotland and Ireland.”
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