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"If you&amp;#x27;ve ever been inspired by Diane Keaton in Annie Hall or been intrigued by menswear-inspired women&amp;#x27;s fashion trends&amp;amp;#8212;if you&amp;#x27;ve ever poked through your dad&amp;#x27;s, brother&amp;#x27;s, or man-friend&amp;#x27;s wardrobe, you may, at some point in your life, have tried on a necktie. Have you ever worn a tie with an outfit? Do you know women who do? One tie designer says he&amp;#x27;s been getting so many orders from women&amp;amp;#8212;with requests to shorten and narrow the ties to better suit women&amp;#x27;s proportions&amp;amp;#8212;that he&amp;#x27;s launching a line of luxury women&amp;#x27;s neckties in the spring. Check out the back story, after the jump. One of the most intriguing designers I&amp;#x27;ve met in my many years of working in fashion has got to be Alexander Olch, whose luxury neckties, bowties, and handkerchiefs for men are sold in stores such as New York&amp;#x27;s super-chic Bergdorf Goodman, Barneys New York locations around the country, Lark in Vancouver, and Service Menswear in Austin, Texas. But being a niche designer isn&amp;#x27;t the only thing that makes Olch special. The New York City native Harvard grad is also a documentary filmmaker&amp;amp;#8212;his first, The Windmill Movie, was a well-received movie about his late film teacher, Richard P. Rogers&amp;#x27;, and the making of Rogers&amp;#x27; last film. Check out The Windmill Movie trailer, below: Anyway, last year I met up with Olch because I wanted to write a story about him, and we talked for hours about how he&amp;#x27;s always worn ties, as long as he can remember&amp;amp;#8212;how he&amp;#x27;s always collected ties and started making ties after college to support himself as a filmmaker. Seriously! Making ties helps fund Olch&amp;#x27;s filmmaking. He made one tie&amp;amp;#8212;a gift to his friends who worked with him on The Windmill Movie&amp;amp;#8212;&amp;quot;And when that tie was done,&amp;quot; Olch told me last year, &amp;quot;friends of mind who didn&amp;#x27;t work on the movie, friends who were going onto careers in investment banking and law, saw the tie and asked, &amp;#x27;Can I buy one?&amp;#x27;&amp;quot; Fast forward ten-ish years and come spring 2012, Alexander Olch will start producing a collection of ties made specially for women. Yes, ties for women. &amp;quot;Women have always been buying our neckties for the men in their lives, but in recent seasons, an amazing number of women have been buying our neckties for themselves, sending them to us to alter, make shorter and more narrow to wear,&amp;quot; Olch says. &amp;quot;It became clear that we need to create a ladies&amp;#x27; collection,&amp;quot; he continues. &amp;quot;We call it Mini Tie&amp;amp;#8212;which is much shorter, much more narrow, and significantly cuter than our men&amp;#x27;s size. The ladies&amp;#x27; collection&amp;#x27;s exclusive fabrics for spring range from fine cotton laces to linen stripes. And for those who still love our men&amp;#x27;s fabrics, every men&amp;#x27;s design is now available in the Mini Tie size as well.&amp;quot; Alexander Olch&amp;#x27;s Mini Tie collection will debut in stores and on his website, Olch.com in February 2012, priced at $125 each. What do you think? Have you been wearing ties a lot? Do you think women&amp;#x27;s ties will catch on in the mainstream? Sound off in the comments. PLUS... &amp;amp;#183; Mini-trend alert! Bowties on the red carpet &amp;amp;#183; Suit up! Shorts and blazers get cocktail ready on the red carpet &amp;amp;#183; Ever consider wearing a pink suit? This look may convince you More Ways to Get Glamour: Get the latest fashion updates via Twitter on @glamour_fashion Check out our chic Tumblr! Read Glamour magazine on your iPad&amp;amp;#8212;print subscribers, it&amp;amp;#8217;s now part of your subscription plan! Like freebies? Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Sign up for our fashion and beauty newsletters to get easy style tips (it&amp;#x27;ll make your inbox 10x sexier, we promise). And, did you know you can read glamour.com on your smart phone?! It&amp;amp;#8217;s the ultimate boredom buster. Photo by Danica Lo"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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