Tadashi Yanai Quotes

'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store.

Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.

In fashion, you need to present something new every six months, but it takes time to study things. Development is very important.

Fashion was more of a sideline for me. I did it for the money.

When I started in the nineties, a sample size was a 4 and a 6.

There's a broad range of fashion: knitwear, textiles, journalism.

I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.

Fashion is a completely international business.

I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.

I like wearing good clothes. Some of my friends who are into making clothes told me since I was already playing with my own brand of bat sticker, I should make a foray in fashion. The idea has worked very well.

I'd love to have a fashion range; I've been dressed by the amazing Vivienne Westwood, and fashion is something I'm a huge fan of.

Fashion is a hard business.

I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

I make clothes; women make fashion.

I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be sold well and has to be of high quality.

I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.

I don't avoid trends. You do definitely want to be on-trend, but I do like to pick and choose the things that I'm seeing. And not every trend will work on every client of mine.

I love fashion, and I love clothes, and so collaborating and putting pieces together is a passion that I have.

We spent a lot of time trend forecasting and collaborating on ways to design a fresh line of fashion-forward, affordable luxury.

I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.

I feel very fortunate that I make everything I wear head to toe every day.

Sneakers have become a significant category for us and a very tangible reminder that what our customers want and wear is changing.

Being in this whole fashion industry, seeing it firsthand, I never realized just how much work goes into everything.

I like the challenge of dressing ladies in lots of different things.

I create a look, and I create a style.