Quotes About Trends

Health-care costs when I got into the industry in '88 were 16 percent a year inflation. When I got out in 1997, they were less than 1 percent.

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

I do feel like the blogs that I follow share an aesthetic and draw a lot from '90s influences.

Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.

My advice for any entrepreneur or innovator is to get into the food industry in some form so you have a front-row seat to what's going on.

There's been a lot of successful shows like 'This Is Us,' 'Atlanta,' and 'Insecure,' so, I feel like whenever something works, Hollywood wants to copy it.

When I have my moments of insomnia, you'll find me on style.com.

A lot of my friends inspire my style, and they don't even know it.

I don't follow other fashion blogs, but I do follow other fashionistas on Instagram. Many of them are my friends; it's really cool: they can inspire me, and they're also my friends. I also look for inspiration in the street; there are so many fashionable women walking around.

I troll Instagram, Style.com, Elle.com.

I was always the last one on Facebook, Instagram - everything.

I follow so many beauty bloggers on Instagram.

It's a tough world. One moment, you're the hottest thing; there aren't enough hours in the day - you can barely catch your breath. The next moment, it's all about how many Instagram followers you have.

The issue is not to ask your customers what they want today, but to try to imagine what the customer is going to want in a world where, for instance, their cellphone is in their glasses.

Fashion is instant - after six months, it disappears, and you have to start again. That's the nature of it.

When I got to high school, to be playing an instrument was really uncool.

Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

Fashion is international.

Especially when it comes to social and shopping, women rule the Internet.

Fashion is just an interpretation of the culture around us.

Other examples of fads are hula hoops, mood rings, flip-up sunglasses, and umbrella-hats.

The adoption of other highly visible innovations like new cars and hair styles is especially likely to be status motivated.

I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy to sing the hook on that guy's song ' and then that's all it is. It's a cool idea that sounds good on paper.