Like many people, Brooks Brothers creative director Michael Bastian remembers exactly where he was on the morning of September 11, 2001.

“9/11 is personal for me,” he told Business Insider during New York Fashion Week on Thursday as Brooks Brothers presented its Spring/Summer 2027 collection. “I was in the air on 9/11. I was flying back from a trade show in Paris. I was working at Bergdorf Goodman at the time. And I ended up in Nova Scotia in Halifax, Canada.”

After hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a full national ground stop, shutting US airspace for the first time in…

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