Quotes About Trends

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

I'm not that familiar with bhangra or Bollywood music. Maybe it's just a reaction that kids have, that you don't really listen to stuff your parents listened to. I didn't think it was cool.

The luxury market and its consumer are very flexible and reactive.

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

Overall, people are reading less.

Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.

Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover.

I don't think there's a major change between runway and real life anymore.

As I get older, I'm starting to find myself liking clean, fitted outfits, so I like a button-down. I'm seeing supermodels and what fashion is really like in real life. There's more than just Atlanta with the saggy pants.

It's a huge competitive advantage to see in real time what's happening with your data.

We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

I Google McFly a lot, once a day, to see what people are writing.

The beehives from the '60s were gorgeous. The big hair from the '80s wasn't.

All the social things the consumer has gotten used to are being applied to business.

Since grade school, I focused on women's clothing.

When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.

People gravitate to what they believe to be popular... Technology is enabling even more of that.

Things are more complex today, and I think humor has changed a a great deal. People are more sensitive today.

I've had a great experience in the fashion business.

I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'

When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups.

Gas consumption is growing everywhere.

Everything is so aggressively marketed at every age: if you're not in Baby Gap, you're not cool. That's how everybody's grown up, so they don't even know it could be another way.

Nothing grows old faster than the new.