Nipsey Hussle Quotes

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

When Ralph Lauren creates a collection of clothes, he's not really worried about a single tie or a single shirt or a single belt... he's creating a movie, and the characters that he casts in his advertisements or the people that work in the stores are the actors in his life.

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like 'Destiny's Child's', so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. I was adamant about not putting my name on something that I didn't love.

Brands must become architects of community.

I think we can bring a new retail language to Rockefeller Center that would really change Midtown.

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.

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

What we have wanted to do is build an amazing brand experience and an amazing way that people can engage with the brand.

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.

You can't deny the experience of a store. It's fantastic if you're a global brand and you've got the power or the funds to support that bricks-and-mortar space, but we certainly weren't and aren't.

When I opened Chanel in London, they were happy. People would go, 'Oh, I just came in to see it. It's so beautiful.' And you leave with a positive attitude toward the brand. Now, you don't really get that online. You don't go, like, 'Wow.'

Ralph Lauren has always stood for providing quality products, creating worlds and inviting people to take part in our dream. We were the innovators of lifestyle advertisements that tell a story and the first to create stores that encourage customers to participate in that lifestyle.

A campaign, like a brand, is not just a number of bits put together - a claim here, a pack shot there, a reason why somewhere else. If we try to produce it by the atomistic approach, we will end up with a sort of Identikit brand. It will be a perfect description of the structure of the brand, as the Identikit can describe the contours of the face. But it won't be the same thing. The brand will never come to life.

A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.

I want to be the Tory Burch of India - never once moving from my aesthetic, but offering a story and putting a print on whatever I can.

Apple Music is a living, breathing brand.

What I've achieved with Boux Avenue is what I always wanted to achieve with La Senza.

It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.

Popeyes is a powerful brand with a rich Louisiana heritage that resonates with guests around the world.

10 Summers isn't just a label, it's a lifestyle.

I don't know that you can set out to be a brand. For us, it happened very organically, and we never rushed it or leaned on it too hard. I felt a true culture had started to emerge several years into the Machine, so we started trying some things, starting with simple stuff like cool merch.

The artists are now big brands.

Packaging can be theater, it can create a story

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 put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far greater importance than the business I seem to be in. Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me about the business that I seem to be in, but I'm not really in that business.