With a brisk, hobbling stride, Stan Herman trotted past bird-watchers and leaf-peepers in Central Park the other day. The former longest-serving president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America was on one of his uniform-spotting tours. Wearing a military-green hoodie, khakis, and dark sneakers, he sidled up to a Central Park Conservancy worker driving a golf cart. “Have you worn the parka yet?” he asked. (Not yet.) He asked another worker, “Do the pants work for you?” She told him that she loved the multiple pockets.
This past spring, Herman, ninety-five, launched the Conservancy’s new, sporty-chic uniforms, one of the latest commissions among dozens of uniforms that he has designed over the decades for all kinds of clients.
