When the first Carmelites arrived in France, they had taken to wearing striped habits. This unwelcome accessory prompted denunciations that cast the good brothers into a solid-brown future. The medieval eye found stripes to be grossly disturbing. Thus, the “Devil’s cloth” was relegated to those outside the social order — prisoners and prostitutes, for example. But over the ages, stripes have taken on enlightened meanings. They connote free- dom, style and playfulness. Witness the revolutionary stripes on the United States flags or Pablo Picasso’s tee. Stripes have become chic or in the case of bankers’ pin stripes, a symbol of taste and status. (However make the stripes too wide, and you have a gangster’s suit.) The stripes of our brand mark celebrate the spirit of collaboration we share with our clients and each other. The coming together of individual points of view that form some really great ideas.