The town's center is the Oval, which is ringed by businesses: cafes, barbershops, a gift shop, Army-Navy store, frame shop.

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He still must approve everything, including frame designs and the plans for a new in-store display for LensCrafters.

FORBES: Lens master

He still approves everything from frame designs to the plans for a new LensCrafters in-store display.

FORBES: Tough Guy

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.

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