Diego Segura

To understand Khaite, you’ve got to view it like a merchant. (I liked the pin-tucked gazar dresses; they reminded me of this Marc Jacobs look from his Spring 1998 collection.) Holstein is very much in touch with what women with money want to wear. When I saw Yael Aflalo , founder of Reformation—another Stripes investment, which turned out very well... See more

One person recently likened LVMH to me as a private equity firm with 40 percent carry rather than 20 percent carry. Not a bad deal.

Merely stocking us, or any young brand, in your store doesn’t equal support. As a young designer you need structures and advice. Stores often have an ego because they stocked you first. But they need to do more. Where is the storytelling? How do you help us grow? Stocking a young brand is a huge responsibility many stores take too lightly. We,... See more

We were inspired by the Picasso quote that only art critics talk about the Big Ideas, real artists help each other find cheap turpentine.

images are still powerful if they are used to tell a story. It’s not that one image on Instagram blows me away, but rather the entire grid, or the persona. How much a person actually keeps up the world building with a 360 immersive narrative.

We love this quote from Mark Twain: “travel is fatal to prejudice.” If you’re traveling to enrich yourself, to better yourself, then this is really what resonates with Rimowa, and what we’ve always stood for.

They sort of combined Clinique and Supreme. The Clinique side was that it was this easy, relatively affordable, but still aspirational beauty system that could feel like it was meant for a [younger] generation. The products were effective if not insanely innovative. And the packaging and aesthetics around it felt completely of-the-moment and cool.

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non-reactivity is a rare and exceptional attribute that is useful across the economy. Helium doesn’t even interact with itself in any meaningful way and must be cooled to -269°C (just four degrees above absolute zero)