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" &amp;quot;Carson Street Clothiers&amp;quot; is a series \u2014 written by former lawyers, sometime style bloggers, and Carson Street co-owners Matt Breen and Brian Trunzo \u2014 that will run in bi-weekly(ish) installments until Carson Street&amp;#039;s launch this spring. &amp;quot;Live from Paris&amp;quot; the fourth part in the series, penned in the City of Light while Matt and Brian are abroad. Check out the archives for the rest of the story. Ernest Hemingway once said, &amp;quot;The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.&amp;quot; Hemingway was a straight shooter, so it&amp;#039;s no surprise that his take on a topic as expansive as trust was so seemingly terse yet excitingly deep. But in the corporate world, placing your trust in another is a somewhat antiquated notion \u2014 and rightfully so. Heavily driven by a culture of CYA, many associates, partners, analysts, directors, managers, and whatever other ego-boosting (or -crushing) titles one can conjure up often find themselves simply working to not get fired. So why trust anyone else? Having worked our entire professional lives as corporate attorneys, we&amp;#039;ve been guilty of harboring the above sentiment. CSC started as a two-man operation, so we never really had any trust issues in the beginning. But in early January, with the European trade show and fashion week circuit looming, it became apparent that we would be required to hire and train full-time staff, and then entrust them with CSC&amp;#039;s daily affairs while we handled fall/winter 2013 buying obligations abroad. Admittedly, we were skittish at first. You don&amp;#039;t just toss the keys to the Dodge Stratus on your first-born&amp;#039;s 16th birthday, right?  THE SNOWY SCENE IN PARIS, PHOTOGRAPHED THROUGH A CLOCK  When we hired our managers, Patrick Doss (operations) and Christopher Benjamin &amp;quot;CB&amp;quot; Rucker (client relations), we were confident that we made the right decision. Now, we are sure. To date, we&amp;#039;ve spent ten days in Europe during what may be the most critical month of CSC&amp;#039;s nascent history, and we can say with great assurance that we made the right decision in bringing these two on board. Incredibly talented, detail-oriented, and experienced, Patrick and CB have been in charge of overseeing construction, inventorying spring/summer deliveries, populating the back-end of our web store, and generally keeping us above water during our European s\u00E9jour. It goes without saying, they have been an enormous help. Without them, we would never have had time to attend Pitti Uomo in Florence, where we found new and exciting product not easily accessible to American retailers, or Paris Fashion Week, where we attended runway shows, stopped in at existing vendors&amp;#039; showrooms, and visited museums to find inspiration for our fall/winter 2013 house brand production (and yes, we found some of that). That&amp;#039;s not to say that we have shirked our domestic responsibilities while traveling. We&amp;#039;ve spent many a sleepless night connecting with Patrick and CB over email, international conference call, or Google Hangout to discuss new products for next year, the status of our fall/winter budget, and all sorts of other issues that have arisen during our time away from home base. But with only a few short weeks before our scheduled launch, they&amp;#039;ve given us what we needed most during this turbulent time: peace of mind. Peace of mind that upon our return, we&amp;#039;re not going to find any holes in the walls from an unsanctioned house party, scratches on the Dodge Stratus, or piles of trash overflowing in the kitchen (we know this because they called about an hour ago to ask when the trash goes out).  Follow Brian and Matt&amp;#039;s progress on Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, and on Instagram (@carsonstreet) \u2014 and check back in with the Style Blog in a couple of weeks for the next installment in the series. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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