Richard Hayne Quotes

If you just want instant cool and you don't want to pay a whole lot, just go to Urban Outfitters.

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

The store experience must become a performance, with the energy and precision of a Broadway play.

You get a timeless cool card in New York.

Every time a consumer walks into a retail store, experiences the Nokia experience for the first time and purchases that product. Those are the moments where you say, 'We've hit it. We've nailed it.'

A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black.

I think New York is more stylish than London.

When I look at a Ralph Lauren store, it is not a store: it's an experience.

At HSN, the experience we create are a significant point of differentiation.

I still care a lot about my personal style, and since moving to New York and having a little more control over my own money, I've been able to make my 12-year-old fashion nerd dream comes true.

I've always worn Superdry. It's a British brand, of course, and it's my go-to festival brand.

'We Are Pop Culture' is my clothing line for women that started with just T-shirts. The clothing line is urban street wear. It's for women that feel confident in their own skin and want to express themselves. The whole idea is to play with modern pop culture and previous pop culture using art and sayings.

The kind of contact that they make with the customer is what brings them back to shop. The experience, the feeling that you have in the store is what makes the difference.

Doing a mall is not only construction of the physical place: what is important is the merchandising mix. We strive to serve the convenience of the public. We want shopping at our malls to be a unique and an enjoyable experience.

Street fashion forever.

I studied in London, so I was high street fashion conscious. For me it was more about fitting in rather than standing out.

Lagos style is fresh and different. Even with the tailors, they get very innovative with their stuff, with the cuts. When my parents used to make the traditional wares, it was a little bit baggy. But now the tailors are able to infuse the European style, making it slim-fit. Lagos style is different, man. Innovative.

I have never been to IKEA, no.

For our first album, we were our own dressers. We didn't have no stylists. We came up with all of the ideas when it came to dressing. At that time, Cross Colours and Jabos were really popular, so we were able to get stuff from them, but we always added accessories.

Sometimes when I walk into one of my own stores, I look at the display and say, "This looks so good - I want to buy it." Yet other times I walk in and the displays and mannequins will be all wrong, and I don't want to buy anything. When a customer walks into a store, she's looking for inspiration. So I'm tuned in to people, and I care about what they need and who they are.

There was a shop in Birmingham called Autographs, where I'm from in Birmingham. My uncles and dad used to shop there. They played professionally, too. When I started, I went to Autograph, and they had brands like Rick Owens. There are loads of brands, like my go-to brands that I will go to if I want to buy jeans, like DSquared or Balmain.

I look at culture, and I see what the kids around me are wearing, and I see a particular style. I understand the space between fashion and streetwear.

I like to walk around John Lewis or Selfridges window-shopping.

The kind of films I do, people assume that I am not a fashionable person, but I am an urban girl, and I have always been fashionable.

I love the way that girls turn up at our boutiques knowing all the names of the dresses, and that was happening before we launched our brand Pinterest board.