Quotes by Aslaug Magnusdottir - Page 1

I never wear pants; I only wear dresses.
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Pants
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I like feminine suits with unexpected details.
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Feminine
Unexpected
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I consider myself to be a citizen of the world.
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Citizen
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A brand can have huge hype but still only be a tiny business.
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Hype
Tiny
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Having trained as a dancer growing up, I love any dance related events.
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Related
Trained
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It is always a pleasure to see what NYC, London, Paris and Milan have to offer.
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London
Milan
Nyc
Pleasure
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Daft Punk's 'One More Time' remains one of my favorite 'getting ready to go out tonight' songs.
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Daft
Remains
Tonight
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I try not to take much time off for lunch, so I usually end up with a tossed salad from the local deli.
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Lunch
Deli
Tossed
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Designers were saying to me that they didn't have a place to sell their special pieces from the runway.
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Runway
Designers
Me Place Special
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The Stockholm street style is distinctive, with ensembles that exemplify the city's understated elegance.
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Distinctive
Elegance
Stockholm
Understated
City
Street
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People are saying fashion week is no longer just a press event, it has become a shopping event because of us.
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Shopping
Event
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While my trips are most often focused on business, I always try to take some time to experience the local culture.
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Time Experience Business
Trips
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Overall, I was extremely impressed with the fashion scene that Stockholm has to offer, both on and off the runways.
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Impressed
Stockholm
On And Off
Overall
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As a customer, I would see pieces that I loved and then find out they weren't being made because no store had ordered them.
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Customer
Store
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A lot of people made their first luxury fashion purchase, but at a discount. And that made it an easier purchasing decision.
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Luxury
Discount
Purchase
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As in many other industries, the luxury fashion consumer increasingly desires to put a personal stamp on important purchases.
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Luxury
Consumer
Desires
Increasingly
Industries
Purchases
Stamp
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There were no tourists. Beer was illegal. There was only government television and no television on Thursdays or in the summer.
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Beer
Illegal
Tourists
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Moda Operandi will change the face of luxury e-commerce by directly connecting brands with the most discerning shoppers around the world.
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Brands
Connecting
Discerning
Luxury
Change World Face
Change Face World
Directly
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The fashion sector is very hot in New York, especially the fashion tech sector, and a lot of women have been the leaders in the industry.
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Tech
Sector
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I was eager to see what Swedish design had to offer and get a sense of its fashion culture, and Altewai Saome was the perfect introduction.
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Introduction
Swedish
Eager
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I first met Michael Angel when he came to my office with a box of prints and asked me whether I thought he should make dresses from the prints.
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Michael
Prints
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It's definitely an interesting question: 'Do you need more funding to start a luxury business?' That's something I want to think about a little bit more.
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Funding
Luxury
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If all purchases are spontaneous and simply driven by what is seen and loved, there is a high risk of ending up with 10 cocktail dresses and no outfits for work.
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Driven
Outfits
Spontaneous
Cocktail
Ending
Purchases
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While my calendar with Moda Operandi often takes me to fashionable locales like Milan and Paris, I am thrilled when opportunities to visit new places present themselves.
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Fashionable
Milan
New Places
I Am Me New
Calendar
Me I Am New
Opportunities
Thrilled
Visit
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I try to keep my closet organized by color and category so that it's not only aesthetically pleasing but practical as well - it really makes getting ready so much easier.
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Organized
Aesthetically
Category
Closet
Pleasing
Practical
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When I was working at Gilt, a lot of people at the time - this is back in 2009; Gilt launched in 2007 - were making their first fashion purchases online and at a discount.
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Discount
Time People Back
Gilt
Purchases
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We use digitisation and 3D-render programs such as Optitex and ClO3D to create the silhouettes, but we invented our system to let users mix and match components in real time.
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Components
Users
Programs
Match
Mix
Real Time
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I enjoy walking through Nolita and Chinatown, watching the people and the buildings, browsing through shops and stopping at little cafes for a cup of coffee or glass of wine.
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Chinatown
Coffee
Enjoy
Shops
Stopping
Wine
Buildings
Cup
Glass
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I choose my outfits based on the shows on a particular day. If there's an edgier designer, it might be a slightly edgier outfit. I don't think it matters, but still that's how I think about it.
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Designer
Outfit
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Our girl is someone who knows the trends before they happen and look online immediately when shows are happening. They love fashion so much, so they're thrilled they get to be a part of it all.
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Online
Immediately
Thrilled
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Having grown up in Iceland and Los Angeles, gone to school in Europe and America, and lived and worked in London and New York, my insatiable appetite for travel has informed many of my life decisions.
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Appetite
Iceland
Insatiable
Los Angeles
Life Travel My Life
Angeles
Grown
Informed
Los
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I worked as President of House of Waris for a year and a half, and Waris is one of my favorite people. He is not only a talented designer but also a warm and genuine person and a pleasure to work with.
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Designer
Genuine
Warm
Work People Person
Talented
Favorite People
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I'm Icelandic, from this small country where there was very limited access to fashion when I was growing up, and so, for me, it's really important to have a product that's relevant for this global customer.
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Relevant
Customer
Me Country Important
Small Country
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Part of the budget should be used to purchase the items that you really need, such as a new coat or boots. Part of the budget should then be set aside to buy things you fall in love with and can't live without.
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Boots
Items
Love Live New
Aside
Budget
Coat
Love New Live
Purchase
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Each individual garment has its own customizations based on a collaboration between us and the designer. We say what we think our woman wants, and they say, 'This is what we think we can do with our production.'
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Collaboration
Designer
Each Individual
Garment
They Say
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What I've always found about going to a tailor is that it's a little bit daunting. You don't know exactly what it's going to look like, it's hard to know who to go to, and it's still a very expensive proposition.
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Expensive
Always Look Know
Daunting
Exactly What
Look Always Know
Proposition
Tailor
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Driven to design by what she refers to as the lack of glamour in the industry, Bar Or creates for the modern woman who is a fashion risk-taker, one who is confident and, perhaps, has a larger than life personality.
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Driven
Glamour
Modern Woman
Bar
Confident
Creates
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If someone is making a very expensive purchase decision, they typically have a lot of questions about the fit and about what to wear the item with. In some cases, they'll ask for additional images or want to contact the designer.
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Cases
Contact
Designer
Expensive
Additional
Images
Item
Purchase
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Since M.O.'s trunk shows will run during a brand's market week, designers can get immediate feedback from our high-end customers to help better shape their buying and production decisions. This keeps our members happy and can improve each brand's bottom line.
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Bottom
Bottom Line
Buying
Feedback
Better Shape
High-End
Immediate
Trunk
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There are so many women throughout the world who appreciate beautiful design and have the budget to buy designer fashion but sometimes have a hard time finding the things that they really want or that suit their lifestyle or their culture or whatever it may be.
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Designer
Lifestyle
Budget
Hard Time
Suit
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As I have written before, one of my favorite parts of my job as CEO of Moda Operandi is the opportunity I get to explore international fashion scenes to discover new talent, and then being able to introduce these designers to our community of fashion-savvy customers worldwide.
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Ceo
Customers
Our Community
Designers
Discover
Explore
Introduce
Worldwide
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We were the first multibrand platform for the customization of designer clothing. And it's great to be a first mover if you manage to pull it off. You can have a great competitive advantage. But if you're quite early, you're learning a lot: both learning as a company, and the customer is still learning.
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Advantage
Competitive Advantage
Designer
Manage
Clothing
Competitive
Customer
Platform
Pull
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I so often heard from women that they saw this beautiful fashion, but it didn't always work for them - whether it was cultural reasons, lifestyle reasons, body type reasons. So it seemed like in my mind there was a gap there, that women really wanted to be able to customize items to fit their needs and their tastes.
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Items
Lifestyle
Work Women Beautiful
Cultural
Gap
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