The Boston Globe, March 30th, 1997
While Studying comparative literature, Boston boy Joseph Abboud veered into men's fashion -- and never looked back. He is now 46, and his New York-based design empire is going global. As a kid, did you like clothes? I loved clothes. One of my greater distinctions was that I was voted best-dressed in Roslindale High School. It could have been very prophetic. How did a UMass lit major bound for academia end up in fashion? I'm sometimes amazed, too. I have a degree in comparative literature, but not in design. I was working my way through college at Louis of Boston when I got a scholarship to stu...
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