Mickey Drexler

“A one person operation at their mom's kitchen table right now on Shopify, who needs to write a product description, who needs to do product photography. I suspect that today they can have a higher converting, a higher, a highly optimized or higher optimized. P…”

“I don't believe it came from that, because I think creativity is part of your DNA, and I don't think it can be taught.”

“I've learned over the last number of years, the best judge of a boss is the person who works for the boss.”

“If you take over something in, you gotta get rid of the old Merchandise, because it ties up a lot of cash.”

“The stock dropped probably 50%.”

“We were talking about, it was a year and a half, we were in Carmel, and we're sitting there, we come up with a kind of a bankruptcy plan.”

“No rear view mirror. Most people do rear view mirror, and they say, well, we sold last year this. Sometimes it's gonna go this way a lot. So you chase what's over in post peak.”

“They're the biggest customers of most brands.”

“When I joined Ann Taylor Brooks Brothers, and I saw it decline dramatically then, because, you know, no merchants running it, the quality, they would take quality out to maintain price, but they had a protective device about Competitors. They owned their name.…”

“I took every call from a customer, and they'd be surprised about, you know, if And I say, if I can do it, you have to do it. You know, but today, you know, it doesn't always work. I tell every story, customer stories, I would call customers. If they, anyone wh…”

“My first week at The Gap, I put up signs, keep it simple, I took out the stupid. Every desk in the corporation.”

“I like to name things that say what it is, and I go through this all the time, they confuse people. I said there's certain names that you know what it is.”

“And he called me one day, and he said, I'll join the Gap Board if you join my board. Deal.”

“There's no such thing as an independent director. You know, there's a litmus test, not a relative, they don't do business with you, but they ought to have on the test not a close friend, not a college roommate, not a cousin, not whatever.”

“Well, you know, I designed the first store with him, because he designed an ugly store, and I, we went in, and I told him, get a warehouse. Build a store so we can design it together.”

“And I say never give a customer A reason not to buy something. It's one of my rules, you know.”

“The whole business is recognizing patterns. It's, you know, there's patterns that go on, and for me, I have to preempt the pattern, and then I push the team.”

“We do collaborations, we get together, and you know, when we did it at Jake, we kind of invented it. Now everyone's, they're all collaborating with all the famous brands, so it doesn't make it unique.”

“And I think what was going on is that Mickey was eyeing the success of Banana, and, ah, wanted to get his hands on it.”

“We've been lucky with the funding and engagement around the brand to have Mickey Drexler from J. Crew actually joined as the chairman of the board in 2016.”