Alessandro Michele Quotes

I loved the fact that if you put goods on the floor, you could watch them sell.

I've no interest in fashion, shoes, handbags, or sweaty shopping.

I'm very impressed by St. Patrick's. Another deity to me is definitely Saks Fifth Avenue. Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.

I was a salesman just out of college, traveling all over American roads in the cause of selling handbags to stores that would in turn sell them to American women, not unlike my father had done.

I may be the only shark who hasn't been on QVC, but I have learned a lot from those folks about what it takes to get a product on store shelves.

Escape is a consumer goods like another

People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'

I actually hate shopping.

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

I love to shop. Clothes, electronics, and I love jewelry, especially yellow gold.

The first thing you see when you walk into a store is color.

Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people.

We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

I despise shopping and department stores.

I think by my father owning a store, I was definitely aware of the commercial aspect of selling clothes. His shop was a place I enjoyed spending time in as a boy, so I learned things almost by osmosis at times, by literally just being around all the action and not really despite myself.

I hate to shop.

Store windows are like landing pages on the website.

Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.

I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture, if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!

The same time I'm designing my collection, I'm also designing my store. It has to have brand awareness, an identity. I'm also designing the racks and the hangers, and juggling a lot of things.

I didn't want to be a retailer. I hated to wait on people.

I'd like to put together a think tank of people - economists, futurists, city planners, a few department-store people - to discuss reinventing the department store.

I've always been inspired by retail entertainment, whether Ralph Lauren or the Disney Store or Niketown.

I'm lucky that I was in retailing during the time that I call the golden age of retailing.

When I was a kid, if I liked something from merchandising, I'd have to go to the toy store.