As onetime creative director of J.Crew, Snyder cut his teeth at the sharp yet always wearable end of American men's fashion. Snyder is a devotee of a word British tailors and designers like to use in relation to menswear: "smart" - the notion that whatever they are, things should always look proper - in the sense that they are properly made from proper cloths according to proper
techniques... before you go mess with them.