When we meet, he wears a china-blue double-breasted Van Noten suit and white distressed Church's loafers that match the slightly cartoonish white round-frame sunglasses he puts on later as we walk over to Van Noten's Antwerp store, where he often shows up unannounced.
More and more younger workers are no longer willing to work for low wages in blue collar positions, and the high costs of real estate are pricing low-cost manufacturing out of China.