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Eileen Fisher

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first: 2019-02-25
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“Yeah, clean and elegant and simple. I wanted to reflect my own style of my own aesthetic. I wore a uniform when I was young.”
2019-02-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher (2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know. I think some of it was that when I was trying to get dressed for the Japanese clients and the different, I needed to look like a designer.”
2019-02-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher (2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, right. Apartments, I did a few apartments, small office, dentist office, things like that, just whatever I could get. And trying to survive and pay the rent and keep working as a designer and not go back to working as a waitress. That was my one commitment. I wasn't going to end up Waitressing again. I hadn't done that in many years, and I didn't want to go back to that. And then I met some people, and that's when I had been kind of cooking on this idea of the clothing business.”
2019-02-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher (2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Where I lived and worked, and I was stumbling around doing still, you know, a few, you know, some Japanese clients still, and then some other work I was stumbling around and getting. I don't even know how and if I look back because it was really day by day. And it was different.”
2019-02-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher (2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But that became quite clear within a few months that that was just not going to work. But yeah, so I ended up separating, getting my own little loft eventually after about a year of bouncing around and finding a little space and a loft and tribeca.”
2019-02-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher (2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just how simple and beautiful things were, simple, really simple, like you could really see like with the kimono, for example, one shape, you know, for thousands of years and, you know, they would just use different fabrics and different techniques to make it different every time. And, you know, it was beautiful. It was beautiful. Yeah, that inspired me.”
2019-02-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher (2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I guess so it was also kind of stressful. You know, I felt pressure and, you know, I couldn't speak the language, so I tried hard to learn it. So there was glamour, yes, I guess, you know. But I'm not, I'm not so attracted to glamour. I always more uncomfortable with glamour. I always say I'm this uncomfortable person. That's why I had to make these comfortable clothes.”
2019-02-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher (2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, right. So this is exactly where the clothing idea came from. So we started traveling. We took two trips together to Japan.”
2019-02-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher (2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I was an assistant, so I'd started just doing whatever needed to be done. And we designed logos and we designed packages, things for banks, and then we did stuff for Japanese clients, Kieran Beer, and things like that. And after a short while, we were like working together, and we ended up getting into a relationship, which was like, oh no.”
2019-02-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher (2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know, I just love fabric and color and playing with the shapes and back to my mom for a second I had sewed with my mother when I was younger. So that was some of my happy memories with my mother. I used to have these pictures in my mind of the clothes I wanted to wear and we would go shopping and I loved being in the fabric store. That was one of my favorite places to be.”
2019-02-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher (2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But they were happy, you know, there were a lot of happy moments. Yeah, we played. The kids played. You know, we had the neighborhood, the suburbs, and bicycles, and we played Kick the Can at night and the good humor truck came down the street and we got ice cream and things like that. So, you know, it was pretty much your typical suburban experience, I think.”
2019-02-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher (2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think what I mostly remember is my mother, you know, her kind of unhappiness. I think it was hard raising seven children. And I think she felt it was her job to do all the hard work. And my dad felt his job was to go to work and make the money. Home and be taken care of after that, so she would pretty much kind of, we used to call it ranting and raving all day long. And then my dad would come home. And just before my dad would come home, she would get dressed and get the meal ready and sometimes even put on lipstick. And I just remember I was about 16, and my mother had a breakdown. My father said that the next day he was driving to work and he had to pull over on the side of the road and he broke down crying, realizing that he had thought only a few days before that these were the happiest days of his life.”
2019-02-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher (2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's funny because lately I've been kind of calling myself a shy extrovert. I think, I don't know that I'm wired so much that way. I just think that something I was kind of shut down when I was young and the classroom, I remember there were like 60 kids in my Catholic school, classroom, and it was just always safer to hide and to be small and not speak.”
2019-02-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher (2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was so freaked out. The first day I literally couldn't speak. I just stood there. People would ask me questions like, how much does it cost? What's the style number? And I like froze and other people in my booth would help me out and say, you know, oh, you know, why don't you come back tomorrow? She'll help you out. I was like, a deer in headlights.”
2019-02-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher (2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, one of my favorite parts of traveling is getting a feel for a neighborhood, the way locals do. A few summers ago, I was in Rome and stayed in an apartment I booked on Airbnb. It was tucked in a quiet neighborhood just outside the Roman forum. Every morning I'd walk to the corner cafe, grab an espresso, and just watch the world go by outside. I even managed to chat with the owner about the neighborhood he lived in for nearly forty years. And he got me thinking about my own neighborhood. There are incredible hiking trails and great restaurants and, of course, the beach. And when I'm traveling this summer, listing my own place on Airbnb could be a really smart way to let someone else experience the area the way I do, like a local. Listing your home on Airbnb while you're traveling is a great way to make some extra money. You could put the money toward your next trip. Your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much”
2019-02-25 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Eileen Fisher: Eileen Fisher (2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT