It took several web sites before I found something I really liked. Most of the pages I visited had Flash movies where the company was showing off what they can do. Every time you clicked you had to wait for all the graphics to stop swirling around before you saw the content of the page. I think people over use it. Just like creating boxes when Desktop Publishing first came out.
Barneys is clean, the navigation is easy there is Flash but it's not overdone. I don't get lost and there is no clutter.
To see another page just mouse over the image.
I like the Kenneth Cole site for the same reasons. On both sites the navigation is in the same place on every page, it's clear. Both are simple but elegant and there is minimal swirling graphics. Maybe I'm just getting old but it's fun once not every time I click the mouse.
I like them because: