WWD CEO Summit: Millard ‘Mickey’ Drexler

Millard “Mickey” Drexler’s much-dissected and heralded career — as chief executive officer of J. Crew Group Inc. and, before that, Gap Inc. — has been guided by a deceptively simple retail philosophy that’s laser-focused on designing, making and selling good merchandise.

It’s an approach that’s easy to talk about, hard to do and not as common as one might assume.