Playing Football With Thom Browne at the Home of the Fighting Irish

On Notre Dame’s leafy campus in South Bend, Indiana, football is nearly as much a religion as, well, religion. Even Thom Browne, the Catholic university’s most famous fashion-world alumnus, cheered on the Fighting Irish when he was an undergrad in the late ’80s. “It was fun to go to the football games. I went to all of them, unless I had a swim meet,” Browne recalled recently over breakfast just a short stroll from the university’s 80,000-capacity stadium. Despite the overcast skies and 50-degree weather outside, Browne was in the gray suit jacket and tailored wool shorts he wears every… Read Full Article