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J.Crew Cuts

Menswear designer Brendon Babenzien’s exit at J.Crew is a signal that a recent stretch of buzz-building at everyone’s favorite mall brand is giving way to the realities of retail at scale.

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Kevin Ulrich, Brendon Babenzien, Libby Wadle, Olympia Gayot
J.Crew stopped publicly reporting financial results after restructuring its debt through a pandemic-era Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, but revenue is now heavily weighted to the off-price channel, according to people with access to the financial figures. Photo: Ben Rosser/BFA.com
Lauren Sherman
February 19, 2026

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During New York Fashion Week, the team at J.Crew once again managed to hold the conversation while steering clear of a runway. At the Olney Gleason gallery on Tuesday night, the privately owned brand celebrated the “rollneck remix,” a collection of limited-edition jumpers rendered in the style of that straight-out-of-Singles ’90s cotton knit, by various indie labels—from Collina Strada to Eckhaus Latta. Several versions sold out almost immediately, just in time for the start of the shows, where creative director Olympia Gayot was a front-row fixture in her perfect Lee jeans.

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