Kenneth Cole
27 statements across 2 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 16, 2020 by Kenneth Cole · said 13 times in 2 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2026 8 mentions in 1 episode
2020 5 mentions in 1 episode
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Nov 16, 2020
Cole: Economic downturns create the greatest opportunities to reinvent
“So, and then in tough times, I've always said are the greatest opportunities because people, you know, when things are good, people want to just do what they're doing and do more of it. And it's only when things are difficult that they looking to kind of re re…”
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Nov 16, 2020
Cole: Importing shoes avoids domestic factory overhead and downside risk
“And then it became very clear that in that sort of a business model, if you do a lot of business, you make a ton of money. If you do a little bit, you make less, but you don't have all the overhead that we had in a domestic shoe factory.”
Nov 16, 2020
Nov 16, 2020 positive
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.”
Nov 16, 2020
Nov 16, 2020 positive
Nov 16, 2020 positive
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…”
Nov 16, 2020
Nov 16, 2020
Naming a company after yourself bypasses lengthy trademark clearance risks
“I couldn't take the chance of a made-up name, and finding out many, many months or years later whether it was acceptable or not through the trademark process, because we didn't have Google in those days. But I also knew you can usually get away with your own n…”
Nov 16, 2020
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…”
Nov 16, 2020 positive
Nov 16, 2020 positive
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 …”
Nov 16, 2020 negative
Cole originally avoided footwear, viewing women's shoes as unmasculine
“But the last thing on my mind was, the last thing I would have imagined myself doing, and the least masculine thing I could have imagined myself doing was going to the women's shoe business. So it wasn't something I ever contemplated.”
Nov 16, 2020 neutral
Kenneth Cole: Brand campaigns are social and human messages, not political
“I tell people that I'm not political. That my messages are not political messages, they're social messages, or maybe human messages, but they're not social, they've been, they're social messages that have been politicized, but I don't talk about politics. And,…”
Nov 16, 2020
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.”
Nov 16, 2020 negative
Nov 16, 2020
Nov 16, 2020 neutral
Modern consumers view themselves as brands rather than buying fashion brands
“People don't buy brands today, I don't believe. I think people recognize today that they are their own brands, and every day they wake up and they curate their own brands on their social media. And they don't just curate the content, they also curate the audie…”
Nov 16, 2020
Jul 16, 2026
Jul 16, 2026 positive
Jul 16, 2026 neutral
Jul 16, 2026 positive