eBay is a flea market. Poshmark is a boutique. The difference is curation, community, and the fact that our sellers are real people who style their listings like they're running a fashion brand.
The future of fashion is circular. The linear model of make, wear, dispose is just not sustainable.
The fashion supply chain in Asia is a $500 billion market run on WhatsApp messages and handshake deals. We wanted to digitize that entire chain — from factory to customer.
Clothes should serve you. You should never serve your clothes. The moment you dress to impress, you've already lost. Dress to live.
Uniqlo is not a fashion company. It is a technology company that happens to make clothes. Our fabrics are engineered, not designed.
Fashion resale will be bigger than fast fashion within a decade. Gen Z already gets it. The rest of the market will follow.
I started this company from my kitchen table at 37. Everyone in fashion told me I was too old and too unknown. They were wrong.
Our first collection sold out on day one. Oprah called the Reva flat the next big thing. That was the moment I knew this was real.
Fashion should be democratic. Everyone deserves to look good, not just people who can afford designer prices.
Fashion and telecom look very different, but they both run on network effects and brand loyalty.
For successful living. We always meant it as a provocation. But people heard it as an aspiration. That is exactly what good advertising does.
I buy brands that others are afraid of. The brands that have real identity but no business behind them. That is the gap I fill.
I always felt fashion was underestimated. People consider it superficial. I think it is a very complex topic.
Fashion week is my laboratory. Every runway is an experiment. That's where I find out what's next.
I got the Tommy Hilfiger rights in Canada when nobody wanted them. That is the business. You buy what others ignore.