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Michael Kors

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“Thank you. My voice has definitely gotten huskier and huskier. I think I sound like a male version of Brenda Vicaro. You sound great.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm not a believer in Luck in the traditional sense of the word I believe in hard work, I believe in experience, I believe in curiosity, but my version of luck is how do you make sure that you leave yourself open to possibility? I've always been curious about and never limited myself about what could be next. Whether it was leaving school when I was 19 years old and saying, let me start working, starting my own business with no experience, running and figuring out how to go to Italy and sign this license, get out of chapter 11 and deal with that and move forward. I've always really been willing to take an educated and calculated leap into what's next.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I said yes, so at a certain point you get firmly cemented as a brand, but there's definitely a person here and a designer here and an individual who's still wrapped up in the thick of it and I enjoy doing it.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think that after 40, what are we? Oh my gosh, 42 years. 42? Yeah, 42 years. 42 years we are definitely firmly Cemented as a brand into so many people's lives and in their closets. And, you know, I've been with friends where, I don't know, we could be arriving somewhere and a car is waiting and they say hello to a friend thinking that the friend is Michael Kors. Or I've been at the airport with TSA. I had a TSA officer ask me what it was like to work for Michael Kors. And I said, What do you mean? And she said, how long have you been there? And I said, my whole life. And she said, oh, and then she looked again and she said, oh, you are Michael Kors. Like there's a person.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, if you live in Tampa, Florida year-round, you are not experiencing the winter that someone in London or Chicago or Paris experiences. So you see things from a different perspective. So once again, I think it's always to remember how to be empathetic. So I've definitely had that surprise many, many times.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I live in New York. So, you know, and I wear a lot of black. And New Yorkers wear a lot, a lot of black. So sometimes, you know, I'll look at a colorful handbag. And I'll say, well, I think that's going to look great in the photograph. But who really carries a colorful handbag? I don't understand. That I always say, well, you know, it's great and we'll take a photograph of it, but I know it's not going to be that successful. And then I look at what's sold and I see that a pale blush pink handbag is at the top of our list. And then I have to sort of hit myself and remind myself, no, we're not only talking to people who live in New York City, we're not only talking to people who live in London or Chicago or Paris. These are all cold weather cities in the winter.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, well, I always say it's, well, first off, I'm not sitting and sketching every piece myself. Right. Am I touching every piece myself? I would say ninety-five percent of it yes I see it. So it's which I guess would be the same as a chef. You know, you might have a chef who says, the last thing I want to do is put a Caesar salad on the menu. You know, everyone has a Caesar salad. Why do I have to have a Caesar salad? Well, can you make it the best Caesar salad? And can you put your own little spin on it to make it, you know, your take on the Caesar salad? So maybe that's similar to what I do. And I love the sort of conversation with creative people. And sometimes I'll say I don't really, you know, I don't understand that. Explain to me why you love it. It's similar to what people have seen me do on Project Runway.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For me, as a creative person with a business head, I'm never actually, as a designer, you're never in the time you're in. You're always working so far ahead of time. You're always thinking about what's next. Fashion is not able to turn things around so quickly, you know, the way that it was when I was at Lothar's, where if it rained on Tuesday, I could make raincoats for Thursday. Know there'll be times I have to admit that I'll be in the middle of a meeting and I'm looking at different categories of product and I will be loving or hating something and then I forget what season I'm looking at. And I'll say, well, wait a minute, this is for when? But fashion is always about thinking ahead”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You're upset, whereas the handbag, if you fall in love and they have it, it's your size. So just from a business vantage point, it is more expensive to, you know Have that big size range versus being able to focus things like you can with handbags or glasses or fragrance.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, the thing we have to remember about apparel versus a handbag. Handbags don't have a size In clothing invariably, and we all know when we go shopping, if you wear a size 34 jean and somehow you go to the store and they've got a hundred pairs of jeans, and where is the 34? Why is it gone?”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The same watch was great in Jakarta and Chicago. You could be 17 years old or 75 years old. That's kind of the magic of a great piece of jewelry, a watch, glasses, shoes, belt, bag. Also, because I am practical, I particularly, I love bags because I love the fact that we all need the functionality of, you know, where are we going to put our stuff. So it's this practical necessity that also makes us feel a certain way when we use that bag.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. I think even when I was a teenager, if I sat and doodled in class in high school when I should have been paying attention to the teacher, I would sit and doodle shoes and glasses. This was just if you looked at my notebooks, or I would sit and doodle the MK logo that we use is something that I started doodling back when I was 15. So I always loved accessories, but I didn't realize that accessories were the ultimate democratic items in fashion until I spent six and a half years at Celine that, you know, it didn't matter what the weather was. The same handbag worked in Stockholm and Rio de Janeiro.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the big playbook is never talk down to the customer. So whether it's a t-shirt or an evening gown, it's thoughtfully and intelligently designed, and we also have to remember in a world that is casual. The richest person in the world does not fill their entire closet with eighteen hundred dollars jackets. and vice versa, someone who has a very casual life and doesn't have that kind of money to spend, they do have the pieces that they buy that are their splurge piece. So, you know, you might on a daily basis say, you know what, I live in leggings or jeans, but I'm going to sort of stretch and buy the handbag and the watch that make my jeans and leggings feel special.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And all these sweaters get shipped all across America to department stores, and they look great I think they look great, and they end up not selling very well and I couldn't understand why don't they sell well and then someone said to me well they're not machine washable and I said what do you mean as you know sweaters most sweaters are not machine washable what's the big deal? And everyone said, Well, this customer prefers that most of what she buys is machine washable. I just, I was kind of like, really? Like no one told me. So you live and you learn, but Silas Chow and Laurence Stroll and myself were all very experienced people who care very much about product and want what's next.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I mean, once again, if you do the same thing every day with no variance, maybe some people are very comfortable with that. I think I was ready and curious to try new things. And with people who are experienced and curious the same as myself. Now are there bumps in the road? Absolutely. You know, I remember I remember the first, I think it was my first spring season with Michael Michael Kors and the women's apparel that season, I had always done for Michael Cores we made a lot of sweaters. So I had a lot of sweaters on the collection.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. Ralph, Lauren, and Tommy Hilferger, and Calvin Klein, and brands like that suddenly they were not strictly American brands. These were global brands, and I definitely thought by that point I had had my experience working with Celine, and it was really time to find the situation that would allow me to take that step to scale it up.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. And I felt that I was at the time, we were doing well, but we were treading water. And I really wanted to see the business go to the next level. Silas Chow and Lauren Stroll became involved with Tommy Hilfrigger's business, and they really took Tommy Hilfriger to a very, very, you know, different level than what Tommy had started. And I felt that I had enough experience and enough knowledge at that point to be able to see it taken to the next level.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think we definitely learned diversity was important. So you weren't relying strictly on one product. Had a broader range of products, and you also were watching your spending, not that you were not spending the capex that you might need to spend to get to the next level, but you were not overspending because we had been burnt. But I think it was really the diversification that we went from having all of the money from a license initially before chapter 11, which was from one revenue stream, to suddenly having licensing money coming in from shoes, coming in from glasses, coming in from fragrance. We were selling bags. We were doing our own menswear. So there was more diversification to the business, which is healthier.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Fragrance came. It was really my first foray into Products that were not clothing based. So I launched my first fragrance. We signed a license for shoes, sunglasses, we broadened our product mix for sure.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. We had an investment from Award Kashiama, and we had the investment in 99 from LVMH. Definitely put us on much more stable ground to grow the business and to launch Michael Core's accessories in the early, I think it was 2000 actually.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You are competing with yourself. The thing that really helped me, you know, when you start designing, inevitably you actually have too many ideas. And often you might fall in love with an idea, but you say, you know what? It doesn't really fit. I'm going to have to get rid of it. So you edit it out. So suddenly I had more opportunity and more places that I could actually use an idea or use a design, but also Paris by nature is an indulgent city. It's a more indulgent approach to getting dressed. New York is a much more practical, pragmatic kind of space. So I think that Michael Cors tended to be a more quiet approach to luxury, and I think that Celine tended to be a more extravagant approach to luxury. So that was kind of how we split the two.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What goes where is a good question? Well, of course, you know, to a certain degree, you also start competing with yourself.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, fashion sometimes is like it's really an athletic endeavor. And, you know, you're getting to the next step. Can I lift more weights? What can I handle? And the last thing that had ever crossed my mind would have been that I was going to design a collection in Paris and have a fashion show in Paris. It was really nothing I ever thought of. But I thought, you know what, I owe it to myself to try this. It's definitely a lot of juggling. Also, I was for the first time. My eyes opened at Selene to the power of accessories. Hambags and footwear, which was the bulk of their business. It taught me really the power of accessories, how democratic something can be if it's well designed, if it's the right bag, the right shoe, the right pair of glasses, and that was a whole new sort of category for me.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Initially, I thought, even though I understood the circumstances, it's hard not to question yourself. And what did I do wrong? What mistake did I make? But then I saw that I don't think my confidence flagged ultimately once I brushed myself off. And that definitely, between the fact of, of course, cutting expenses and pushing up the sleeves and getting dirty and doing everything yourself a few years later, we were out of chapter 11. Then we got back onto solid ground.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We went into chapter 11 bankruptcy, but right away we made the decision. We're not going to stop producing our collection. We're going to continue to ship it to the stores and we're going to continue doing business. Maybe we won't be able to have an advertising campaign. Maybe we have to cut staff. Maybe we have to no longer have an extravagant fashion show. We're going to do what we have to do.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's the combination. Of being too dependent on one thing, not diversified enough, and quite honestly putting all your eggs, so to speak, in one basket. So at the time, I think I thought to myself, first off, how could this happen? If I don't have my own business, who am I? We have to figure this out and sort our way through this. And I have to say at first, there was never any question. We weren't going to close, but we were going to have to cut expenses dramatically.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And the next thing you know, you've basically started relying on someone else. And they ran into complications with some of the other lines and collections that they were licensing. And the next thing, you know, they went bankrupt And they ended up owing us considerable amount of royalty money, and we, of course, had been spending all along. We knew the money was coming in, the stream was coming in, and we didn't think the stream would ever stop. And then the stream stopped.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. Unfortunately What happened, the company that we licensed to, we were really their first great success with licensing a designer name. And I think they were so successful with us that they suddenly said, well, this is easy. We can do this with other people. And they went out and they started gathering other designer names that they said, oh, well, if we did this with Michael Kors, we could do it with you. We'll do it with you. And they overextended themselves. And it turned into this sort of perfect storm where we were chugging along with the royalty checks and expanding. And as I said, really, you know, building up our infrastructure.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In those days, they would say bridge. Which was a bridge between more affordable and designer prices. It's turned into contemporary affordable designer, whatever it is, to me it was just a more accessible product.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, we made a full. No, no, no. It was a full collection again of women's sportswear. Jackets, trousers, shirts, dresses, everything.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's a nice way to put it. Well, now at first it was tremendously successful. So here's the first time in my career that we launched something and it just shot out of the cannon very, very quickly. And it was an immediate success story.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Think that how I approach it is this, everyone has different budgets. So, what's inexpensive to one person is expensive to another. So I think how I approach it is, is it the best designed best quality thing at that price? That's to me the trick. And then I feel that whoever is buying it, they're getting the best thing that they could buy and that works for their life. So whether it's $79, seven hundred ninety dollars or seven thousand nine hundred dollars. Is their integrity to the way it's designed? Is it the best quality you could find at that price? And then it's the right piece. It's just the right thing at the right price.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so I think if you want to scale to the next level, it doesn't mean that you have to have a lower priced line, but you have to have something that can have a broader audience. But for me, at the time back in 1990, I think I was at Saxf Avenue at the time, in New York, and it was the day that the store went on sale, so to speak. And I happened to be there and watched this. And I saw women who were kind of at the sale racks loving my designs, and I realized that this was a whole different audience of people who I was not speaking to.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know if it's necessarily that you have to create a lower priced line. But you have to have something to sell that can have a broader appeal. Now that doesn't take anything away from someone who is very comfortable and very happy. Keeping their business small, tight, we were saying before, you know, I might not have played Little League as a kid, but I am definitely a competitive player.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Very different. You know, it is mom and pop, you know, roll up the sleeves, the hands get dirty, you're doing everything yourself. And yes, each point as the business grows, you can take on a new employee. Suddenly you have a public relations person. Suddenly when stores or magazines or the press come to visit your office, you can offer them something to eat in a cup of coffee. But you're definitely not rolling in the dough. You need things to build. You need to learn. You need to see things kind of grow at a rate that it's right. It's the right thing at the right time.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Definitely. It's also years later, of course, when I was doing television, I was doing Project Runway. I would sometimes listen to some of the designers on Project Runway, and they'd say, well, you know, I don't really design for people that size or I don't design for women that old. I was always perplexed listening to them thinking, well, wait a minute, if you're good at what you do, you're a problem solver. You're solving the puzzle, so you should be able to design in such a way that you get your message across, but at the same time, you have that possibility to be democratic, whether that's just in size or age or even how a woman or a man puts themselves together. Not everyone wears the same thing the same way, they want to be able to put their own spin on it.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That is a very sharp and clear assessment. I think women found the clothes to be easy to wear, versatile, long-lasting, glamorous, but accessible. And then also we seem to have started even back then in the 80s with this very, very wide broad range of different kinds of customers, different ages, different sizes. I would go to do a personal appearance and we could have three generations in one family. We'd have the granddaughter, we'd have the daughter and we'd have the grandmother.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sax Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, but also a lot of my initial business was really built in specialty stores where they really had these remarkable relationships with their clientele. So you were almost, you know, if you went back, let's say, to Dallas twice a year, it was kind of seeing clients who became like friends. And you've started to really learn how these women lived, where did they go on vacation? What were the restaurants like in their city? Did they work or did they not work? It was crash course in consumer knowledge.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Suddenly I was in Minneapolis and I was in Nashville and I was in New Orleans and I was in Los Angeles and I was, you know, I was traveling.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, he was probably all of 33. So we were young and curious and energetic, and we set up my first office, but my first office was aloft that I lived in initially in the back, but it was a big step up from showing the New York Times my collection in my bedroom. At least my bedroom now was in the back, and step by step, it was a slow progression. And I think I waited until 1984. Have my first fashion show. Because I really knew that I had to sort of line my ducks up and make sure that, you know, that I knew that I was. Being able to deliver the goods, so to speak, and all these steps the collection started getting a little bit bigger and broader, we were no longer, you know, strictly dealing with New York City. I was suddenly on the road a lot.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I started down the traditional route. I talked to a lot of different people who were already on 7th Avenue producing clothes. And what I immediately saw with them was that they had a lot of rules about how they thought things should be done. And I said, you know what? I think I'm going to go about this a different way and look for someone to be a partner in business who isn't necessarily in the fashion business. And I met someone who worked at Bergdorf Goodman at the time. And she said, my husband is in the real estate business. He is not in the fashion business. But he is definitely intrigued by it. And we met, and in we jumped. And I was, was I 22? I was 22.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, yeah, I mean. Not really. I mean, I figured out how to figure out my profit margin and how I should price things. And so I did do that. It became very apparent very quickly that there was no way I was going to do this on my own.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, I mean, it was really crazy. I went around to fabric resources and begged them, please, will you give me credit? You've known me, you know, since I'm 18 years old. It was definitely not a traditional way to approach setting up a business.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“the collection. And then the first article that was written about me I was the fall fashion pick in New York magazine and at the time the editor was Anawintur and she called me and was the same situation Anna said I want to see the clothes I've heard wonderful things and she said where is your office and I said I don't have one and I took the subway to the New York magazine offices and I hung the collection on her coat stand. And so it was definitely an unorthodox way to start. I mean, I was writing payroll checks from my personal checking account. So you're to the”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yep, every piece. And then I packed it all myself. I delivered it all myself. The windows, I knew which day they were going to go in and I was standing on Fifth Avenue at 2 o'clock in the morning driving everyone crazy. And I think they made a huge exception at the time and they let me come in and go into the windows and sort of fidget and fuss with the mannequins. And then the New York Times advertisement came out. I had no office. The first time I got a phone call and the New York Times said, oh, we have a reporter who would love to come and look at the clothes. And I said, well, they can't come here. And they were like, well, what do you mean? And I said, well, literally, you know, sewing in my bedroom. But in fact, the New York Times did come and they sat in my bedroom and looked at me.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I probably produced anywhere from, I would say, a dozen to three dozen at the max. But, you know, Two dozen of most things. I had people sewing in my apartment. I was dragging bolts of fabric in taxis and up the elevator and we were cutting the clothes, all of the fabric and all. We were cutting everything. My apartment was so small. We used a friend's apartment upstairs to cut things out. And somehow then I think I didn't even really understand how people delivered clothes to a store. I didn't know that there was UPS. You know, I wanted to hand deliver all of the clothes. I was afraid they'd wrinkle and crease. So I delivered them in the back seat of my aunt's car.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And the following day I called Don Mello at Bergdorf Goodman and I said, here's what I need. And she listened very carefully and she said we're good with all of that. If you, you know, stick with us, we'll stick with you. And the next thing I knew, I had people sewing in my apartment on 7th Avenue and 23rd Street and how many pieces.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I called a family friend was a designer named John Anthony, and I called him and he said, well, make your wish list. And I said, what does that mean? And he said, well, he said, what do you need to succeed with this? So I said, well, I'd love to have windows on Fifth Avenue. And he said, well, that should go on your list. I said, oh, I'd love an ad in the New York Times. And he said, what else? And I said, well, I think I want to do a personal appearance or a trunk show so I can meet the clients. He said, add that to the list, and then I said, well, I have no money. I said, I don't know how I'm going to actually produce. How am I financing this? How am I producing it? And he said you should talk to them and see if there's any way that they could help you and prepay for some of their order. And I said, okay.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was it I did a lot of leather and suede back then, and I think I had this. Long black suede at the time we said gaucho pant that had an overskirt and this big wide opi belt very dramatic, very expensive for nineteen eighty one. And everyone in the rooms looked at me and said, could you excuse us and could you leave the room for a minute? I thought, okay, this is over. So I left the room, and about two minutes later, Don Mello said we really think the clothes are terrific. We think they're perfect for Bergdorf Goodman. We want to be the only store in New York to carry the collection for at least a year. We'd like you to come back to us and tell us, you know, is there anything you need from? And I, of course, I mean, I had no idea how I was going to do any of this. I didn't know what to say, what to do. Yeah.”
2023-03-06 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Michael Kors: Michael Kors · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I walked in, and there was Don Mallow waiting for me, and she was with a group of women who were the sort of buying team and the decision makers at the store. I brought a friend with me who would model the clothes because I was a firm believer that everything had to be seen on. So I started the process and started showing it to them. And I think I was literally at the third piece.”
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