NEW YORK—Merin Guthrie flew into the city just for a hot second, but not for fashion week. The founder and CEO of Kit—a custom clothing company for women—is an outlier in the fashion world. She considers that a good thing.
Guthrie is not the kind of fashion CEO who would come up with a grand design theme or a fast-fading trend. She is a problem solver, who has honed in on the biggest problem, from a woman’s perspective, in women’s fashion: finding clothes that fit well. Like an alchemist, Guthrie has created an antidote to standard sizing and throwaway fashion, in a practical and conscientious way.
“There’s never a bad time for me to come to New York,” she said in an office room downtown. After the interview, she planned on checking out fabrics and some hooks and eyes, picking up some silk lining, talking with her trim vendor, and then flying back to her home in Houston, Texas.
