Retail Design Quotes

The same time I'm designing my collection, I'm also designing my store. It has to have brand awareness, an identity. I'm also designing the racks and the hangers, and juggling a lot of things.

When you enter a Ralph Lauren store, it's almost cinematic, as though you're walking through someone's home.

Sometimes when I walk into one of my own stores, I look at the display and say, "This looks so good - I want to buy it." Yet other times I walk in and the displays and mannequins will be all wrong, and I don't want to buy anything. When a customer walks into a store, she's looking for inspiration. So I'm tuned in to people, and I care about what they need and who they are.

I tried to walk into Target, but I missed. I think the entrance to Target should have people splattered all around.

Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.

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

I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in, and an awareness of the built environment, the 'store' has become a critical, perceptual and psychological component of merchandising as well as imaging. Architecture and fashion are partners.

I've always been inspired by retail entertainment, whether Ralph Lauren or the Disney Store or Niketown.

The first thing you see when you walk into a store is color.

I wanted to create a new way of looking at retail.

My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.