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J.Crew’s Survival Plan: Edit Out ‘the Ugly’

The struggling American retailer has a new chief executive in industry veteran Jan Singer. Will her strategy bring it back from the brink?
Imagery from current J.Crew marketing. Photo: Instagram.
Imagery from current J.Crew marketing. Photo: Instagram.

When Jan Singer started her job as chief executive of the J.Crew Group in February, one of her predecessors gave her a piece of advice. “I told Jan … ‘edit ugly,’” said Millard “Mickey” Drexler, who transformed Gap and J.Crew into cultural phenomena with sales to match, on

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