The Ledger, every show
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Kenneth Cole faked a movie production to secure a NYC trailer permit
“That afternoon, we went to a stationery store, changed the companies, the letterhead, mechanical ink, the chemical productions ink, and then we filed for a permit, sent the letter to the mayor that afternoon, asking for permission to shoot a full-length motion…”
Kenneth Cole stores boosted wholesale shoe sales at co-located Nordstrom locations
“I remember having a conversation with Nordstrom at the time, and they were a big customer, and they were challenging the fact that we had all these stores, and I would show them quantifiably how every mall that we had a store, where they had a store, they did …”
A class-action lawsuit was filed one hour after Kenneth Cole announced privatization
“When we announced that we were going to do this, we announced it at nine o'clock when the New York Stock Exchange opened, we put out an announcement. We had a class action suit filed and on our desk By 10 o'clock, an hour later.”
Kenneth Cole sold 40,000 shoe pairs from his faked movie trailer
“I sold maybe 40,000 pair at the show.”
Kenneth Cole achieved positive cash flow by collecting before paying Italian factories
“And I had them flown in from Italy and I would then turn around and ship them before I had to pay for them. And then I got paid before I had to pay the factories. So I had positive cash flow like three months into business.”
Cole: Kenneth Cole generated $5M in its first year in business
“The company, its first year in business did five million dollars.”
Cole: Annie Leibovitz photographed Kenneth Cole's AIDS campaign pro bono
“I asked Annie if she would, on a pro bono basis, because I didn't really have any money, if she would help me do a campaign, do a photograph, and she agreed to do it.”
Cole: Christie Brinkley posed eight months pregnant for AIDS ad
“Christy Brinkley was one of them, and Christy
Did it, by the way, and she was eight and a half months pregnant, and Christy hadn't been seen publicly in, I don't know, five months, but she allowed herself to be photographed for this ad, eight and a half months…”
Cole: US department store chains shrank from 70-80 to 15-20
“When I started my business, there was maybe 70 or 80 department store chains in the United States. All of a sudden, 10 years later, there's maybe 15 or 20.”
Cole: Liz Claiborne deal guaranteed $250M annual sales by year five
“We licensed women's wear to Liz Claiborne, and they agreed to huge Minimum sales levels. Actually, two hundred and fifty million dollars a year, which is crazy high numbers. Guaranteed by the... By the fifth year of our relationship.”
Cole: Built a coalition of 50 major mental health providers
“So, I built a coalition of 50 of the nation's largest mental health service providers, mentalhealth.org, if you want to look at it.”
Cole: Most golf apparel is sold through on-course pro shops
“Most golf apparel, most golf accessories are sold in what they called Greengrass distribution, which is golf shops.”
Cole: The US had 70 to 80 department store chains in the 1980s
“When I started my business, there was maybe 70 or 80 department store chains in the United States.”