NEW YORK | Adam and Ease | 11.02.2009 There should be an ease to everything. Meet Adam Lippes (LIP-pis), the Ivy League-educated brain behind the effortlessly stylish label ADAM. How does a psychology major and investment banking-bound Cornell grad land at the top of the fashion heap? Lucky for us, Lippes headed to Paris post-Cornell to balance his business brain with a bit of art history and architecture and subsequently fell in love with fashion. Upon returning stateside, he promptly landed an entry-level position as the assistant to the store manager at Polo Ralph Lauren.