I wanted stores that would feel like a comfortable room in my apartment, cozy and colorful and different.
Tory Burch
One of my greatest talents is recognizing talent in others and giving them the forum to shine.
You have to be savvy and sharp and also straightforward with your customer. I think that authenticity is really important.
I never go out during the day without sunglasses.
My approach to beauty is 'less is more,' but I usually wear a pinky-nude lip color, like my Pas du Tout.
There's so many ways of making product design easier, more efficient, quicker. People are now taking DNA from cows and growing leather. The implications of that, in what it has from a grain standpoint, are enormous.
Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.
When I design a garment or a piece of accessory, the first question I ask myself is, 'Would I wear it?'
I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.
Many people think that buying a fake product is harmless, but counterfeiting is estimated to result in annual losses of over $20 billion dollars to American companies.
It's very passe to think women want to spend a fortune on clothes.
For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.
I love blue in all its shades and textures. I wear navy like others wear black, and I love the blue in flowers - cornflowers, delphiniums.
It was ingrained in me to be gracious.
I wanted to create a new way of looking at retail.
I went to an all-girls school in a uniform and always got detention for wearing colorful boxer shorts under my kilt.
I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's a great thing to do as a mother - you forget a lot as you go along, but reading over what you've written brings all the memories back.
My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman.
I've learned time management, organization and I have priorities.
I just like easy clothes - comfort.
When I think about fashion I think women will never lose that appetite for fashion.
There's a negative connotation to ambitious women, and I think that we should be able to be proud of being ambitious and not shy away from that, if that... is what you want to do.
I love red licorice, but any bright candy - tangy taffy, Fruit Roll-Ups - does the trick.
I've worked in many companies, and I think that, number one, if you are going to have a great environment, you produce great work... If people are happy, that's what's important. Life is short.
Each job I had wasn't necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how you really have to take certain things from each job and learn from that and then move on to something you really want to do.
I just love the energy of going into different areas of New York.
I drive an Escalade.
I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.
I could eat gazpacho three times a day.
I think women want to look beautiful. I think that's an important thing. It is relevant.
I am always interested in designing things that have a great price point attached to it.
I love exploring New York and I think that's what is so exciting about it. You find places that you've never heard of or seen before all the time.
I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.
I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur.
I like being behind the scene.
I wanted to help women and their families.
Big businesses can help by engaging aspiring entrepreneurs and promoting initiatives which support small businesses from within.
When I started my company, many people said I shouldn't launch it as a retail concept because it was too big a risk. They told me to launch as a wholesaler to test the waters - because that was the traditional way.
My company is an extension of me, so when I designed my stores I wanted people to feel that they were in my home.
My father, Buddy Robinson, was superchic - a dandy. He always wore dinner jackets at night and espadrilles in the summer, but with his own flair. He was even well dressed when riding a tractor or listening to a ball game on the radio.
There's a Diebenkorn painting - 'Ocean Park No. 68' - that is the color of a swimming pool and always reminds me of summers at the beach.
I'm proud to be American and very happy that women like my brand.
I grew up with very elegant parents; their black and white photographs and style are still a huge source of inspiration in designing my collections.
I have always believed in 'less is more' in everything I do, from work to my personal life.
There are never enough hours in the day.
I am not much of a cook.
Growing up, I wanted to be Chris Evert.
My mother would be the person all of my friends would go to for advice.
I go to concerts about once a month.
If I had to read only one author, it would be Gabriel Garcia Marquez because I love the mystical, magical quality of his writing.
