High-End Retail Quotes

I think the only reason you visit an Apple store is because you wonder what life is like on another planet.

If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.

My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.

I always loved the retail entertainment sector, like FAO Schwartz, where it's a little more exciting than just going into a little corner deli candy place.

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

My mom used to work for Coach and Louis Vuitton, in retail. So, I've always been around it. I've always had that connection. Always.

In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families - the Conrans and the Ashleys - who in increasingly brilliant settings and catalogues sold rather different visions of what the new ideal upper-middle-y life looked like.

The best museum is Bloomingdales.

I love being able to go to a store, let's say... a store like Topshop or Zara or maybe even Macy's, depends on what department, and not have to look at the price tag.

I'm in the Apple store on Regent Street far too much; I'm obsessed by whatever the latest Apple gadget is. For clothes, I love to shop in Liam Gallagher's shop Pretty Green on Carnaby Street, or Cult Clothing in Crouch End, for Original Penguin and G-Star.

I want 'Vogue' to feel like a shop that you're not scared to walk into, one that's quite welcoming.

When our customer leaves Urban Outfitters, the Main Line is the type of place where more of them go than don't.

I am always on the lookout for new gear. If I walk into a Louis Vuitton store, and they have a belt that I don't have, I want it straightaway.

My neighborhood now is all 21-year-old European supermodels. I go to the international newsstand on the corner, and they're all looking for their pictures in 'Italian Vogue.'

Selfridges - we just look; we don't shop!

Saks is one of the temples of good-quality products in America. The Saks shop in New York, for me, is the most interesting department store in America.

Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.

For present buying, I go to Harrods because there are great personal shoppers, who point me in the right direction.

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

I spent a lot of years working for Ralph Lauren, and he had so many copycats, from Tommy Hilfiger to Abercrombie & Fitch to J.Crew.

[My consumer] is a combination of people who would have shopped with me when I was at Jimmy Choo and then also because of price point, there is a broader audience now that we can reach.

I like the Valentino store in Rome.Because in Rome when I'd be riding my bike, that store is right next to the Spanish Steps, and it gets so crowded there, so I could sometimes duck into the Valentino store and go up to the top floor and have a little espresso and just relax and take it easy.

If these rich women from 5th Avenue spend a fortune on cashmere sweaters, they will come to my store to buy gummy bears.