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Marc Ecko: Inventory is the common killer in fashion
“The common killer in our industry is inventory.”
Ecko: Global distribution inevitably fractures an apparel brand's creative cohesion
“When you develop IP at that level of international distribution, this sort of hyper-localization of starts to happen that starts to that where you really create some dissonance as a, as like the sort of chief creative officer or the creative director, because …”
Marc Ecko: Kids start cultural badging between fifth and eighth grade
“I think that it's about the age for most kids growing up, that sort of pre-middle school I'd say from fifth to eighth grade, where they start to badge, like a little chick, like born new to the world. They see these signals of like who their cultural mother is…”
Ecko: Cut-and-sew apparel requires non-verbal mascot logos over text branding
“If I don't evolve a logo mark that's a non-verbal, non-written
Logo mark.
It's going to be very hard to ID the product.
So I walk the main hall, and I walk by like a big timberland tree, and I walk by a big lacoste alligator, and I walk by polo, and I'm just l…”