Apparel Industry Quotes

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

Clothing was something I always wanted to do. I've been pulling tear sheets from magazines since I was a little girl.

I never considered the clothing business in college. But my father was a manufacturer of men's wear in the Northeast and wanted to investigate manufacturing in Asia. In 1972 he sent me to Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for four months. I'm convinced it was his way of getting me into business, rather than letting me be a hippie.

My only ambition was to have 10 children. Fashion was an accident.

Until my businesses really took off, my family, I think, just assumed I was selling printed T-shirts out of the back of my car. They just couldn't wrap their head around how fashion could be profitable.

In general, the apparel industry isn't about continual process improvement or making the perfect piece of denim; it's about chasing trends.

'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store.

While at Parsons, I interned at Marc Jacobs, which was great. When I graduated, I went to work at J. Crew; that was also really great.

... that shirt salesman from Kansas City.

There was a time Michael Jackson couldn't get his video on MTV because he was considered to be 'urban.' The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I'm gone, after I'm dead.

Fashion is always seen as somewhat frivolous and self-indulgent. And I think people on the inside maybe don't see or understand how exciting and diverse a business it is.

My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom.

I have an art-school background, not a fashion background where it's like, 'Oh, we're going on holiday to Miami.'

I wanted to make the world's greatest football undershirt. But I realized that no team sport had equipment for apparel. Apparel was an afterthought.

Since its founding, I've been friends with ModCloth's cofounders and many of its executives and investors. I have long imagined we would one day belong under one roof with that brand as a force in the future of apparel.

Fashion was more of a sideline for me. I did it for the money.

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.

The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.

Well, when I was fifteen years old I worked in a lingerie store and that's how I feel in love with vintage lingerie because I wanted to know the history of it.

I like wearing good clothes. Some of my friends who are into making clothes told me since I was already playing with my own brand of bat sticker, I should make a foray in fashion. The idea has worked very well.

Even going to [ Kanye West] warehouse and modeling for a lot of his new season stuff taught me about my silhouette, how the clothes fit - I've definitely learned a lot being around him.

When I started in the nineties, a sample size was a 4 and a 6.

There's a broad range of fashion: knitwear, textiles, journalism.

I already have enough apparel businesses that are either doing well or not really doing anything at all, and I'm looking to broaden my portfolio.

I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.