Chip Wilson
41 statements across 2 episodes · 9 bullish · 8 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 18, 2018 by Chip Wilson · said 15 times in 8 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2025 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 2 mentions in 1 episode
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Jun 18, 2018 positive
Wilson: Lululemon Created First Cotton-Feeling Synthetic Athletic Fabric
“When I started to do my first design meetings with these 10 groups of 10 women, and we had like five or six samples, and they touched the fabric, and they put it on, it was the first time that really a synthetic fabric felt like cotton.”
Jun 18, 2018 negative
Wilson: Nike did not understand clothing design because their shorts caused chafing
“While Nike was a shoe company, so I know they didn't really understand clothing either, because even in their running shorts, they had these open seams in between their legs, and I'd run five K
and I'd totally rash.”
Jun 18, 2018 negative
Chip Wilson: Lululemon went public too quickly under private equity pressure
“The private equity, they're there to make money for their investors, and I had a very long-term vision for Lou Lemon, and they had quite a short-term vision for Lou Lemon. So we went, ah, we ended up going public way too quickly.”
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Jun 18, 2018
Wilson: Lululemon name chosen because Japanese consumers perceived 'L' as North American
“And it started to occur to me that the five big trading companies in Japan were making North American brand name clothing. In other words, they would come up with their own brand name in order to deliver that to the Japanese customer. But Japanese, those big t…”
Jun 18, 2018
Wilson: First Lululemon Store Doubled as a Morning and Evening Yoga Studio
“The only way I can, I figure out how to do it is to combine my business with Fiona Stang, my yoga teachers, and I had all my clothing on rolling racks, and we'd move it all out to the side and have yoga classes there early in the morning and then at night.”
Jun 18, 2018
Jun 18, 2018 negative
Chip Wilson: Advisor push to sell shares diluted founder board power
“The advice I got was, hey, Chip, you should sell more of your shares into the marketplace, because the more shares that are out there, the more the institutional investors will be able to get a good chunk of it and be able to hold it for a long time. But the r…”
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Wilson: In the 1990s, gym culture ignored athletic apparel aesthetics
“At the time, the fashion of gyms was to wear your very worst clothing, and mostly because probably 90% of people in gyms were men, and, ah, and you know, you knew you were gonna sweat in it, you were gonna get ugly in it, and you just wanted to throw it in the…”
Jun 18, 2018 negative
Wilson: 2013 Bloomberg remarks were antithesis of what he built at Lululemon
“Well, it was a poor choice of words. It was absolutely devastating to me. It was devastating to my family. I mean, people would come up to my wife and go, how can you be with a man like that that would say that type of thing? But more so it was the antithesis …”
Jun 18, 2018 positive
Jun 18, 2018
Wilson: Placed Lululemon logo on waistband to avoid corporate chest branding
“I put it there because I was very clear that I didn't want big logoing, and I thought that somebody should look in the mirror and not see any logos. And I definitely didn't like logos on the left breast because I looked at it as being Kind of corporate logoing…”
Jun 18, 2018
Jun 18, 2018 neutral
Wilson claims 2013 sheer pants pilled because women bought sizes too small
“Suddenly, women were coming into the store and not wanting Lululemon for athletics. They were coming in looking For it to shape their bodies. But the sewing technique and the fabric wasn't meant for it. So, what they were doing is buying two to four sizes smal…”
Jun 18, 2018
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Jun 18, 2018 positive
Wilson: Direct-to-consumer retail captures $60 profit on $20 items versus wholesale
“If I made something for 20 dollars, then I would have to sell it to Dick's Sporting Goods for 40, and then they would sell it for 80. Where in my own retail stores, then I was putting it in there for 20, and making 80 dollars, so there was a 60 dollar profit i…”
Jun 18, 2018 neutral
Jun 18, 2018 positive
Wilson: The 1998 rise in female university graduates birthed the athleisure market
“I had to read an article in the paper one day that told me that 60% of the graduates at a university were women in 1998.
And I went, wow, you know,
Something really, really big is going to come out of this, and that is we're going to end up with a market tha…”
Feb 24, 2020 neutral
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Feb 24, 2020 neutral
Wilson Blames Infamous Lululemon Pilling On Customers Sizing Down For Shapewear
“Women were coming into the store and not wanting Lululemon for athletics. They were coming in looking for it to shape their bodies. But the sewing technique and the fabric wasn't meant for it. So what they were doing is buying two to four sizes smaller than wh…”
Feb 24, 2020
Feb 24, 2020 negative
Feb 24, 2020 neutral
Wilson: Shannon Gray became Lululemon CEO within two weeks of being hired
“I hired this woman who Shannon Gray was her name. The first person I'd ever seen that had a design portfolio with using stretch clothing, and within about two weeks, I, after hiring her, I left her in charge of Lou Lemon as the CEO for a year, and I went back …”
Feb 24, 2020