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“We do want to see healthy growth, but it has to be the right growth. We’re constantly looking through that lens.”
— Tory Burch, Tory Burch LLC
“We do want to see healthy growth, but it has to be the right growth. We’re constantly looking through that lens.”
— Tory Burch, Tory Burch LLC
“There are no rules.
If there were rules, anybody could do our job.” — Maria Grazia Chiuri, Valentino
“Kohl’s spends billions of dollars to give great value to customers. We’re still going to spend billions of dollars, but we’re going to do it differently.” — Kevin Mansell, Kohl’s Corp.
“If you look at the luxury industry [in China], it used to be completely male-dominated, and now almost half the luxury industry products [sold] are women’s products.” — Pierre Denis, Jimmy Choo
“The secret sauce is a convergence between e-commerce and brick-and-mortar.”
— Neil Blumenthal, Warby Parker
“The business today is fantastic and incredibly exciting.”
— David Neville, Rag & Bone / Our job as designers is to think about what is next — not next year, in the next decade.”
— Marcus Wainwright, Rag & Bone
“We are probably living in the most creative era in history.” — John C. Jay, Fast Retailing Co. Ltd.
“When I think about the future of retail, the only thing that is really clear to me is that in the U.S., people love to shop.” — Brian Cornell, Target Corp.
Amazon executive Jeff Yurcisin alluded to the possibility of a private label apparel program for the e-commerce giant.
“The old paradigm is about a place that sells things. The new paradigm is an experience that sells things.” — Rachel Shechtman, Story
“Growing up in a small, two-stoplight town in western Tennessee, with seven brothers and sisters, I had come to understand, appreciate and embrace midtier customers.” — Marvin Ellison, J.C. Penney Co. Inc.
“The reality is we have tremendous plans for the future that are better achieved in the privacy of a private company.”
— Roger Farah, Tory Burch LLC