HMS Interview: Carl Meyers, fashion focused
Carl Meyers Boutique
111 Clay Avenue
Lexington, KY
859.252.2004
Carl Meyers is the third generation of a retail family starting in 1920. Carl grew up in a wonderful family where style and fashion were a part of everyday life. Traveling, art, music, and books were also a big influence from a very young age. Learning to experience new and novel things to always keep life interesting is a part of his everyday passion.
If you haven’t been to the new location, please don’t wait any longer! The clothing is gorgeous, the accessories glamorous and Carl, as always, is charming and full of pizzazz! ….Oh and if you see a haute little white Jaguar parked out front…you know Carl is in, so come say hello!
Read the HMS Interview with Carl below to find out more about this Lexington fashion icon!
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Favorite vacation spot
Monte Carlo
Favorite restaurant
Teodora, NYC (try their seafood salad, even Bugsee liked it and he wasn’t big on seafood!)
Favorite hotel
Delano South Beach
Cocktail of choice
Diet Coke
Favorite gift to give
Something from Tiffany’s
Style Icon
(I know you are one, but you can’t say yourself 
Fred Astaire
Favorite designer
Oscar de la Renta
Listening to right now
Jazz
Reading right now
Help (Its a fabulous book about growing up with your help in the south)
Your design background is not only interesting but very impressive. Can you share a few of your favorite fashion experiences?
While in college, helping Ralph Lauren develop his first western wear line, onward, in my early twenties, re-defining riding apparel as basic habits into a fashion experience. Working with Paul Stuart on developing a men’s wear line with hunting details and fabrications. And developing the first line for the designer Tim Hamilton which is now in Bergdorf’s men’s department.
If you could dress anyone – who would it be?
Brad Pitt
What, or who, inspires you the most?
My mother’s style and fashion drive
When you were a child, what did you dream of becoming?
Pro Golfer
What do you love most about what you do?
The diversity of people that I have enjoyed working with over the past decades.
