I don't consider what you're wearing when I design a shoe. I don't have a particular look in mind or make a shoe thinking, "This would look great wit…

- Mark Mcnairy

I really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I said I would think about it.

- Mark Mcnairy

There are too many brands. You can start your own brand from your bedroom. It's a good thing and a bad thing.

- Mark Mcnairy

Basically for everything that comes out of Five Four, I've come up with the idea or changed it in some way. I'm also working with Putnam Accessory Gr…

- Mark Mcnairy

Bigger brands like Shinola are capitalizing on what all of us small companies did. Shinola is just totally fake. It's a corporate entity that's takin…

- Mark Mcnairy

My agent came to me with a deal from another publisher and I signed a deal and got the advance with no idea of what I was going to do. I probably pro…

- Mark Mcnairy

I've been working with Five Four. The partnership started as one monthly collaboration, but now I'm the creative design director. There are still goi…

- Mark Mcnairy

I thought the Made in America men's wear push was a big revolution in terms of smaller companies taking charge, but it seems like it's gotten out of …

- Mark Mcnairy

When I was a kid I was very particular. I was actually beyond particular. I would iron my money and spray it with Polo cologne.

- Mark Mcnairy