This might be oversimplifying things a teeny-weeny bit, but we’re just a menswear clothing brand. We’re a company that started off making silk ties and then made the leap into swim shorts, shirts and all things summer-obsessed. But what makes that simple definition pretty misleading is that our journey to this point was anything but simple, and it all began when our impossibly-handsome Founder, Patrick, got a small dollop of bad news.