J. Crew's Mickey Drexler and Frank Muytjens Talk Branding - WSJ.com

One of the key moments in that acceleration may have been the company’s 2008 opening of the Liquor Store, its first men’s-only shop built in an old spirits seller in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. It introduced a formula that has served as a clever template for the six J. Crew men’s shops that followed (including a newly opened space in Manhattan’s Columbus Circle) and planned outposts in Los Angeles, Toronto and London.