Quotes About Trendsetting

Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.

What happens is that the people who are leaders in any field are copied. I mean, there's a reason why every wine newsletter tends to look like mine. They see someone who's been successful, so they sort of copy these same ideas.

Bollywood goes through these phases. Whatever makes money is quickly lapped up by all. They all want to play safe.

I'm not going to give quotes about inventing the 'beach book,' but I was certainly at the forefront of it.

Because the designers at Baby Gap and Crew Cuts have determined it would be cute if kids dressed like their dads, seemingly every American male between 2 and 52 dresses identically.

Theory did a great work pant, and everyone was doing denim. But no one was making a trouser sexy, or the focus of an outfit... So, that's what I set out to do.

Nothing invites imitation like apparent success. The

In the early '90s, all the girl groups were dressing super feminine. And then we came on the scene wearing Cross Colours, Girbaud, and Nautica.

Gucci has always represented great design and contemporary lifestyle.

It was the kind of herd mentality that was so prevalent in this world - when one person was doing something that looked amazing in photos, the community followed suit, even if it meant completely uprooting one's life.

In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.

What could be a better recipe than mixing fashion and food?

Anything Drake drops is timeless. It's always timeless, it's always lit.

I don't do shows. I don't have reviews. I'm not putting the clothes on every celebrity so that by the time they reach the store the customers are sick of seeing them.

And then, also, when you're doing something that doesn't sound like anything else on the radio at the time, you almost need to, like, ironclad it to make sure it gets through, you know?

You can tell if it's a good collection if people are afraid of it. In ten years, everyone will love it.

Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they're doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.

Diesel pioneered the idea of luxury denim, and we still drive this market. But it encompasses more: the consumers love the brand, the lifestyle, the mentality of Diesel.

The genius of Kate Middleton is that she hasn't gone too far. She's still dressing in a way that people can relate to.

Since the '80s, Harlem has the place to go. Before the '80s, just as far as hip-hop go, Harlem has always been a strong point, fashion-wise, music-wise, all of that.

This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.

I hoped 'Tashan' would be a clutter-breaker.

What I ended up learning was that I had to do what I do well, and do it really well and say, 'Maybe there is no pop music that sounds like this now, but I can make it so maybe tomorrow what I like can be what everybody likes.'

Designers have a reputation for setting the tone for what people - and especially women - are supposed to wear. How long their skirts should be, things like that. I have a different philosophy: put something out there with humour; let people see that and come around to it on their own.