Tamara Mellon quotes - page 2

When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property. (Tamara Mellon)
It's amazing how much resilience you can have when you're passionate about a project that you're doing.
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In the past there were two things that motivated me then: independence, and passion about what I was doing. And those are still the things that motivate me now. I still have that passion for creating a product. And I will never be dependent on a man. I will never be dependent on a husband or a boyfriend or a father. That's one thing that's really important to me.
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It doesn't matter what you are wearing-if you have good shoes and a good bag, you'll look right.
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I'm really hoping just to keep building on what we're doing. You have to build your core business first which is really important.
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You never know. Down the road you can do a lot of product categories. But I think you really have to build your core first and for people to know you and respect you for that.
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A magazine feature can reach hundreds of thousands of potential customers for a fashion brand. The way to reach a billion? Dress the actresses competing for attention at a highly televised event.
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I don't believe in delivering four times a year and then also delivering things that are not season appropriate.
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I don't believe in doing collections anymore.
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Direct to consumer really gives you control of your business completely.
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The thing about Uggs is that they're so comfortable. Once you've worn them, you don't want to go back. (Tamara Mellon)
I often get the question from people, "well how can you sell luxury at that price?" What I'm explaining to everyone is I'm still paying the same factory cost as I paid when they were $800. I pay the same as my competitors who are in the luxury space pay, I just don't mark them up as much because I haven't put them in a wholesale channel. I don't have to put that extra margin on them.
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The city [ LA] is kind of going through an interesting transition; sort of renaissance time where there is so much going on here. I think it's really exciting to be here.
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I had to put the company through a reorg, raise a new round of financing, and sort of press the restart button. But my feeling was that I wasn't going to be bullied. I wasn't going to let them take me down. I had to pull myself together and move forward.
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Everything we're doing means there is a much bigger audience that we can reach.
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What we're doing is giving her new exciting fashion things every month.
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The customer moved on long before the industry reacted to what she wanted. She doesn't want to buy things four months in advance, she wants to buy something today and wear it tomorrow. She cares less about seasons and collections and really what she's looking for is price, quality, and convenience.
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It felt like strappy sandals were looking really old lady-ish; really dated and not cool.
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There's this sort of migration west at the moment, a sort of energy that's definitely moving to LA.
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