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The biggest thing I’m seeing – and I have to be careful what I say here – is that people are tired of the old guard and the familiar brands. They’re looking for more individuality and creativity, and that’s coming out of this whole new wave of younger brands: Thom Browne, Michael Bastian, Robert Geller, myself.
We think we’re going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database 12c, and our programming language brand is this thing called Java.
I don’t follow brands religiously, but there are certain brands I feel comfortable wearing, like H&M and Zara.
Late-night television is like the cereal aisle in the supermarket: too many choices. Also, too many ‘different’ brands that really aren’t different at all.
Brands mean different things for different generations.
Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right. To that end, they need to take on a mentoring role. This means the brand provides the tools, techniques and strategies for their customers to become more effective marketers in achieving their own goals.
This is what Steve Jobs understood: Brands are defined not by the best thing on the product but by the worst thing.
We didn’t have nine brands of cereal at home. We’d line up to fill our bowls from a giant vat of oatmeal.
I try really hard to separate myself from other celebrity brands.
We could be like a lot of consumer brands that start blogs after they start their business. But in our case, I think Glossier is still very much a content company. I think about our products themselves as pieces of content.
I do endorse brands: brands that I believe in individually, brands that I use, brands that I am proud to sell. But I wouldn’t do that for my films because that’s something I do separately. What I do with my films is something I am extremely passionate about.
I do think that in a digital future, consumers will increasingly turn to brands that they trust. Trust, security, and service are even more important in a digital world.
The brands that choose to use me, my agency and social media have given me a face and a voice.
Even though people are under economic pressure, they still want to support those brands with values that are compatible with their own.
When I’m dealing with Britney Spears and Katy Perry, these massive brands, like, really, very Coca-Cola, you know what I mean? There are certain kinds of standards. There are risks you can take, and there’s risks that you don’t. And I think I’m interested in taking a little more risk in my own music.
I buy unknown, lower-name brand jeans. I don’t care about the name brands, if I look good in the jeans I don’t care who made them.
Brands started calling me out of the blue as I racked up over 5 million views on YouTube. And now I make my living being what they call a ‘lifestyle and travel influencer.’
Brands who come to China, often they just care about price – so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
I love wearing brands and all but Sarojini Nagar is at a different league altogether. I used to go there every week, bargain and stuff my bag.
I always believe in buying things locally; anything locally made is a big plus, along with organic materials. I try really hard to do that, and brands really pop out to me if I know they’re trying to be environmentally friendly.
I love simple, elegant clothing with a hint of sexy, and that, for me, is so hard to find. I usually always end up finding Australian brands, and Kookai is an example of that.
We move through soundscapes all the time, and most of them are accidental – a by-product. Most retail soundscapes are accidental, incongruent with the brands, and mostly hostile.
Instead of trying to be the queen of cool, it feels like more of an achievement to work with mainstream brands and reach as many people as possible. It’s more unexpected for someone like me.
My routine definitely starts with brows. I do add a little bit of mascara – even to the gym. I have to! I love Maybelline and Covergirl, just drugstore brands. I’m telling you, they’re the best.
I like to branch across a lot of different styles and brands in the way I dress; it’s just the way my style works. So I love that I can walk into a Target store and think, ‘Oh my God, I love these jeans,’ and then I’ll pair them with something designer.
All clothes are worn on the street, but ‘streetwear’ had once described T-shirt brands and skate-inspired brands, and now it’s just a lazy innuendo used to describe clothing made by designers that the establishment deems ‘less than.’
Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
A lot of beauty brands, they’ll really infiltrate the States. But going out of the States, they struggle.
When I arrived in Ford, a decision was made to sell many marquee brands. This was because 85 per cent of the sales were from Ford and Lincoln brands. We were clear that for the company’s strong future, we needed to focus on the Ford brands.
Apart from films I’ve been shooting a lot of ads and signing on with a lot of brands as their primary endorser.
I’ve always loved fashion, but I think that right now, it’s hit its peak – I’m just so obsessed with clothes and paying attention to brands and collections. I guess 16 is kind of the age when you start to develop opinions on all that and knowing what suits your style.
I’ve seen a lot of brands fail because they went, ‘Hey, look, we’re from New York, and that’s what we’re all about.’ But wherever you go, people are proud of where they are. So even though we’re from New York, what we do is a mindset: it’s got to work in Japan, in Los Angeles, London, wherever.
When you have premium brands, you have to have the right balance of communicating all of your values.
Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world’s most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.
The way customers relate to brands and how profit is generated has changed so dramatically almost every professional is being challenged to reconsider what they do in order to stay relevant.
One thing I think constantly is if brands like Gucci can make plus-size menswear, then why can’t we see it for women?
When you get a record attendance for What Culture Pro Wrestling – or just recently with Matt Cross, we did a record attendance for Next Gen in Tennessee. These are various brands. They’re not rinky-dink. They’re small – they’re not WWE – but their soul is there.
Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism – money, eyeballs, software, brands.
We have received a heritage of craftsmanship, of aesthetics, of taste, of identity. Our brands have the beauty to preserve and perpetuate it.
I’ve created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I’ve worked with established brands.
I grew up in Perugia, Umbria, in a world outside of fashion, so I didn’t learn about it until I was older and moved away. In Milan, the women are really into fashion, and all the big fashion brands are based there, but I don’t think they feel pressure to look good all the time.
I hope to buy brands and businesses globally.
I’m not a huge shopper. I love looking good – obviously, on the golf course I like looking sharp, that’s for sure. I’m just not into knowing brands.
We are really very lucky to have so many fantastic brands. But to grow them we should not be too much in a hurry. They are growing fast, but they have to grow accordingly to the market and to the capacity we have to deliver good products.
Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.
Xbox is one of the most revered, loved brands in games.
Brands are in your face 24/7; I’m sure you’ve consumed a couple brands today. So it’s fun working with them. People recognize brands, and people are starting to recognize my brand.
Brands are facing a new competitive landscape in which self-definition, core values and purpose will increasingly define their ability to reach customers that only allow what is meaningful in their lives to pass through their filter.
For its health, cricket needs to look outward to the sharpest minds, to people who sustain and nurture brands and often take hard but necessary decisions. Cricket cannot be bound by cricketing minds alone.
Let’s hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won’t buy.
Multinational brands, especially those with successful legacies, often struggle in emerging countries.
The great thing about WWE is the fact they are branching out and doing more brands. Having this just creates more opportunities for everybody, and I just want them all to get a chance. Especially in England. I know we have a lot of British superstars, but it’s still a lot harder for Brits to come over here in America.