JAX Exchange - Winter 2025 - Magazine - Page 46

As a junior in high school in 1979, I was devouring Vanity Fair, LOOK Magazine, GQ, and “W” Magazine, convinced I could design what I saw on those pages. So, I began sketching dresses, sport jackets and variations on everyday wear. Around the same time, I landed jobs at Sacramento clothing stores, which is where I met Steve Benson. Steve taught me how to fit and style ready-made menswear, lessons that would shape everything that came after.

When Steve opened his first S. Benson Clothing store, then his second, I was there learning the business from the inside. I was handling event promotions, media relations and advertising always with one foot in fashion and the other connecting people to it. Fast forward to 2020: I was curating events at jet hangars, wineries, country clubs – anywhere performance, luxury, exotic, classic automobile enthusiasts gathered.

That conversation led me to J.Hilburn, where I’ve refined the craft even further, learning to measure a man for any garment and translate this into tailored solutions
that actually fit his life.

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