Retail Strategies Quotes

If you think about a business where uncertainty is an anathema, it's around consumer spending, and it's around retail.

China approaches fashion with strong enthusiasm. And I believe that this enthusiasm can be translated into something interesting, economically speaking. Not only for my brand, but also for other brands.

Retail is my game. I spend every waking hour thinking about it. I started in the industry at the age of 18 after trying various other things that were mind-numbingly boring to me.

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.

Business is tough, and the fashion industry is particularly tough.

Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing.

Chains do more than bargain down prices from suppliers or divide fixed costs across a lot of units. They rapidly spread economic discovery - the scarce and costly knowledge of what retail concepts and operational innovations actually work.

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 freedom I give myself for the business is in deciding to take part in the Paris collections, but also having other retail strategies that are unlike anybody else's. Not necessarily going into malls, doing the business my own way - having different brands to cover different concepts, to be able to have the cash flow to carry on.