fashion industry

“And 80% of that stuff is worn three times or less and ends up in a landfill.”

“And I just had this idea that I could make these simple clothes. No one's really doing it.”

“And I'm very troubled by what I think is this anti-feminist crusade Around one of the most important and largest industries on earth, fashion, being considered trivial.”

“They encouraged and wanted to see new stuff. You know, now it's like very, it's not quite the same way. You kind of have to be more established and so forth.”

“It's sort of, to be honest, it's sort of a way of life in the fashion industry. There's a whole, most of the industry copies”

“However, I attribute that decision, quite frankly, through the years to one of the reasons for my longevity. When you're the flavor of the month, people get tired of you, and they want to see the next flavor of the month.”

“I think what we saw was a lot of these companies having the right policies that were really inclusive, but not actually putting the policies into practice, or really doing the front-facing things of MLK quote on Instagram, or their runway, or their cover was a…”

“And when you really look at the term inclusion, it means that ownership doesn't change. Now you're just being allowed here.”

“You're dealing with an all-white industry. Right? And who know it. And you symbolize something specific that's useful up until a point, you know.”

“There's no line that was Like unisex at that time, that was coming from the place that mine was. Everything was like, oh, a dress on a man meant unisex.”

“Overproducing by design, right? Two collections, like, you know, 400 items every six months. Absolutely wasteful. And you end up, when you have to make like that, that's why you are selling a pair of jeans for a thousand dollars, is because you didn't figure o…”

“Because I think ultimately the consumer doesn't want to compromise their tastes for their values. And I think that's where we need to get to in fashion is you need to have that quality of design and that quality of desirability in your product that is second t…”