Natalie Massenet Quotes
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Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.
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As much as I love to shop online, I also love walking the streets on a beautiful day and seeing what finds I can discover in a small shop or vintage store.
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I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.
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I'm an accidental entrepreneur.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
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One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'
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If you want success, be unique.
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People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.
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When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
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Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.
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When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again.
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I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
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My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.
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The fashion cycle is outdated.
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I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.
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Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?
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You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.
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If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business.
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What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
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When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.
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The United Kingdom has traditionally been a very small market, and even though you had such a creative group of designers, they represented a risk to department stores.