Latest Tamara Mellon Quotes from Interviews

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• My business savvy it’s instinct. Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it’s a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it’s wrong.

  Tamara Mellon

  Mistake, Feelings, Intuition

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Tamara Mellon

  Husband, Father, Passion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Tamara Mellon

  Thinking, People, Firsts

  Source: www.elle.com

• The next few years is really going to be focused on shoes.

  Tamara Mellon

  Years, Shoes, Next

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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.

  Tamara Mellon

  Important, Doing You, Firsts

  Source: www.elle.com

• What I hate is leather leggings and an ankle boot. I hate the line.

  Tamara Mellon

  Hate, Ankles, Boots

  Source: www.elle.com

• Everyone in my office wears it all winter, it's our uniform because it's the easiest thing to wear.

  Tamara Mellon

  Winter, Office, Uniforms

  Source: www.elle.com

• I wear Sweet Revenge, the legging boots, a lot particularly in the winter.

  Tamara Mellon

  Sweet, Revenge, Winter

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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.

  Tamara Mellon

  Moving, Feelings, Together

  Source: www.elle.com

• I tried to put direct to consumer through a wholesales channel - the industry was just not ready to adapt and change. The other issue I had was with Jimmy Choo.

  Tamara Mellon

  Issues, Ready, Consumers

  Source: www.elle.com

• I went back to the factories that I worked with at Jimmy Choo because they don't work for Jimmy Choo exclusively.

  Tamara Mellon

  Factories, Jimmy Choo, Jimmy

  Source: www.elle.com

• Everything we're doing means there is a much bigger audience that we can reach.

  Tamara Mellon

  Mean, Doing Me, Bigger

  Source: www.elle.com

• [My consumer] is a combination of people who would have shopped with me when I was at Jimmy Choo and then also because of price point, there is a broader audience now that we can reach.

  Tamara Mellon

  People, Combination, Consumers

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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.

  Tamara Mellon

  Long, Quality, Moved On

  Source: www.elle.com

• What we're doing is giving her new exciting fashion things every month.

  Tamara Mellon

  Fashion, Giving, Months

  Source: www.elle.com

• I don't believe in delivering four times a year and then also delivering things that are not season appropriate.

  Tamara Mellon

  Believe, Years, Four

  Source: www.elle.com

• Direct to consumer really gives you control of your business completely.

  Tamara Mellon

  Giving, Consumers, Direct

  Source: www.elle.com

• I don't believe in doing collections anymore.

  Tamara Mellon

  Believe, Don't Believe, Collections

  Source: www.elle.com

• It felt like strappy sandals were looking really old lady-ish; really dated and not cool.

  Tamara Mellon

  Sandals, Old Lady, Felt

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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.

  Tamara Mellon

  Luxury, Space, People

  Source: www.elle.com

• It's amazing how much resilience you can have when you're passionate about a project that you're doing.

  Tamara Mellon

  Resilience, Passionate, Projects

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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.

  Tamara Mellon

  Thinking, Cities, Interesting

  Source: www.elle.com

• There's this sort of migration west at the moment, a sort of energy that's definitely moving to LA.

  Tamara Mellon

  Moving, Migration, West

  Source: www.elle.com