georgina chapman

"Marchesa is everything to me. I’ve spent years and years building this brand."

"I’ve seen Georgina grow a lot in the nine years I’ve known her,” says Weinstein. “Each success makes her more and more confident about her place in the world. When I first met her, she idolized Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, but I think now she feels, as everybody talks to her in the world of fashion, that she’s coming into her own.”

"What I love about my husband is that he really allows me to be the best person I can. He's never, ever tried to stop me or keep me down. He's just so supportive. He's got this amazing ability where I always feel safe with him, and that allows you to go forth in life and do things that perhaps you wouldn't have had the courage to do before. He is also extremely business-savvy and an incredible sounding-board. Being older, he has a lot more experience than I do. He has this huge wealth of knowledge. He's like an encyclopedia, and he's got such an exciting mind, which I find very attractive."

"I approach designing for both Marchesa and Pearl with the same level of respect and the same intention: to help women look and feel beautiful. I pay close attention to detail to make sure that both collections embody my signature style and design sensibility."

"We borrowed other designers’ machinists at night. We could only start sewing after 
6:00 p.m., and we had to dye everything in the bathrooms in these public areas.” She pauses before flashing a mischievous smile. “We got it together. It was tiring, but it was fun.”

drexler

I think it's all not being full of shit.

The goods speak, the ideas speak.

How many people actually say what they think?
Stop giving me BS!

I could not tolerate people who didn't "get it."

If you're running a big company, you must be short on patience.
The winners respond to honest passion in a business.


I think young people love people who get mad, who are passionate, who are honest,
who don't sit back and don't care that much.

rosen

In walks Andrew, and he had a pair of pants in his hand, and he said, "I am starting this company, and I am calling it Theory, and I am going to sell this pant."

He has the flair not necessarily to create the product but to react to it, and to understand where there is an opportunity.

He will say, "There seems to be a hole in the collection. I feel like we are missing an indoors jacket. I did one of those and it sold really well-- maybe you should find a way to do that."

I like this coat. But I love the fabric.

he constantly questioned:
is this good enough?
is this right?

the celebration of making something great for everybody.

a victory for beauty
for purity
and for giving a damn

simple can be harder than complex.
you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
but it's worth it in the end because once you get there,
you can move mountains.

-steve jobs

"indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design. " - dieter rams

"reading [about dieter rams] was never as powerful as simply using his products.

He defined how it was supposed to be: how industy could responsibily bring useful, well-considered products to many.

His was not an academic experience in modernism. He lived every day with the realities and consequences pf what he and his team designed.

He reamins utterly alone in producing a body of work so consistently beautiful, so right, and so accessible."

- jonathan ive

ralph's book

1967 - Ralph Lauren started his company when he was 28!

In his first year, he sells $500,000 of ties.

1968 - a full line of polo menswear

" I wanted something that got me excited."

1969- polo by ralph lauren shop in Bloomngdales

What he was trying to do was bring a European sense of quality and tradition into an American style and spirit.

I write through my clothes.

clothes were about living

the advertising campaigns became movies in print. It wasn't about seeing a man or woman posing against an anonymous backdrop, but seeing him or her in a life doing something you could relate to or dream about.