Tastemakers 2014: 11 visionaries whose savvy choices are refining your daily lives

Photography by M. Sharkey

Muytjens becomes visibly beatific when discussing J. Crew's overseas growth, not to mention recalling a seminal visit to a Vivienne Westwood show in the early '80s: "That's where I realized, This is where I belong," he says, stressing the proverbial distance between his natural-fit profession and the "small, rural village" he grew up in, where he felt people were "a little more closed-minded."

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