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"   Photo: Crain&amp;#039;s  In September, former Gucci honcho Mark Lee was named CEO of Barneys, and yesterday, he changed the store&amp;#039;s DNA with one fell swoop. Judy Collinson, the executive vice president and women&amp;#039;s merchandise manager, Julie Gilhart, the women&amp;#039;s fashion director and Karl Hermanns, the EVP of planning, marketing and e-commerce, all left the company, and in their place comes another Gucci vet, Daniella Vitale. So what does this mean for you, the customer? Collinson&amp;#039;s sense of humor coupled with Gilhart&amp;#039;s eye for emerging, going-to-be-super-famous-in-a-couple-of-years designers made for a brilliantly diverse sales floor. Barneys is the go-to place for a party dress that no one else has, or that under the radar shoe that&amp;#039;s impossible to find outside the UK. Gilhart and Collinson, who championed now famous brands like Proenza Schouler, Alexander Wang and Rodarte before anyone else, whipped up a mix of dependably cool clothes. Lee, and now Vitale, have been charged with &amp;quot;broadening the store&amp;#039;s horizons&amp;quot; \u2014 which sort of makes it sound like it&amp;#039;ll be more Neiman Marcus than Barneys when they&amp;#039;ve had their way with the sales floor, but we&amp;#039;ll hold off judgment until next year. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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