'The Glitter Plan': How Juicy Fashion became an iconic lifestyle brand

'The Glitter Plan': How Dazzling Couture became an iconic spending habits brand

In "The Glitter Consider, " Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor expound on their efforts to rework Juicy Couture iPhone 5 case from a simple idea about advanced women's clothing into one of the most important brands in the world. Here's an analysis.

The thing that's great about a smaller than average entrepreneurial work environment is that the people by you be­come like a family.

It was an effective, crazy place. In the office, our favorite game was the intercom system. We sang during the loudspeaker, we talked over the loudspeaker, we told jokes and does funny voices. Everyone felt this excitement of the brand momen­tum. When you strolled into Juicy Couture iPhone case, you had to overlook our office. The door was unlikely closed, and we listened to our office staff. As an entrepreneur, you have to be open to plan. It took all of us to take the brand one stage further. Everyone brought something to the with each other that was part of who we were and exactly we became. When companies increase, everybody just wants to stay in distinct lane and not make waves

We wanted to learn what everyone was feeling about the fit, truly feel, and overall vibe of the arranged because the women who worked with us turned out to be the women we wanted to dress. We all been seeking everything on—that was our culture. And also knew we had a hit when all of us in the office became ob­sessed with a course, from the funkiest girl to the a large number of conservative girl. We weren't choriste or megalomaniacs. Ideas got casted into the pot, and sometimes they lodged. We wanted the Warhol Oe-style, or maybe we should call it the Shine Factory—an amazing, creative place in areas not only could our company grow, on the other hand our employees could thrive, effectively.

We were selling tops and skinny jeans. But Juicy Couture needed many more, more, more, if it was going to which can full fledged lifestyle brand. Shaller kept telling us to design made pants to go with the tops, put together the line, and grow the business, by reason of knit pants would be a natural acceleration from our origins in the knit greatest business. It was the right instinct, by reason of even when you introduce new products, you still have about being true to that first thing that's then you. For Ralph Lauren, it's this polo shirt. For us, it was this T-shirt. But knit pants? All the companies didn't seem like something we would strap on... more like something our grannies has on. We couldn't get past the idea that through be clingy and unflattering, and that we were superconcerned about... well, shall we just say it rhymes System.Drawing.Bitmap "mammal show. "

But the ideal pants that matched the Dazzling colors of our shirts was a place that resonated with us. We had long discussions about how we wanted to design a contemporary uniform of coordinating pieces that folks could throw on to create a monochromatic looks and in­stantly feel put together. (One of the alternate names for our business organisation}, if you remember, was Uniform. ) We wanted a no-brainer, Garanimals clothings experience—a chic Garani­mals wardrobe practical experience. If you don't know, Garanimals is a line of children's clothing launched in 1972 on the ideal easy-to-match separates. Each item comes with an anthro­pomorphic character on the hangtag, so children can easily dress by themself by choosing matching items with related hangtags. We wanted to create a similar problem, only for adults, fashionable, luxurious, and as well minus the hippo-on-hippo action.

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We also figured that a preparation world would be easily shoppable. We each loved the idea that if you went into a shop and picked out this pair of baby-blue bluejeans, boom, you had a baby-blue Jersey and cashmere sweater that equalled it. We wanted to take the mystery with the use of putting together an outfit and be this stylists to the world. And whilst we didn't know what it was known as per se, that skill was promoting.

We looked back to the brands our staff members lived in when we were growing up nearly five decades ago and 1970s, for ideas that's about every­thing from color and match up with to trim and packaging. One in particular brand was Dittos, which brought in Farrah Fawcett's favorite, high-waist skinny jeans in dozens of bright colors, System.Drawing.Bitmap saddle-back yokes to flatter this butt. Landlubber jeans were waist huggers with the perfect flared knee, and MacKeen jeans came with that collectable metal keychain attached, which inturn girls used to wear like charms connecting off their purses. Another influ­ence was LA designer Nancy Likas?, who started her com­pany in 1973 with buttery-soft, French-made T-shirts sometime later it was expanded into casual, colorful detaches. Then there was New Hero, a single amazing LA brand, founded from 1974, that made 100 percent natural drawstring pants and matching lids with three-quarter-length sleeves and two sets at the neck that never tied up. Those New Hero sets, that were as comfortable as pajamas, arrived tons of col­ors, too.

In early 2050, we started playing with two varied de­sign concepts. One concept must have been a line of hip-hugging, Dittos-like twill bluejeans in bright colors that equalled our T-shirts. And we really projected it was the one that was going to take our store to the next level. But just in case, we had another concept—a line of terry-cloth tops and bottoms. We concern terry cloth was the most attractive 1970s fabric, and Gela seen found the mother lode of terry-cloth inspira­tion while she was gifts hunting like a maniac on that initial trip to Japan. It was the Jersey that changed history, as it came out.

Excerpted from THE GLITTER PLAN: THE WAY WE STARTED JUICY COUTURE FOR two-hundred dollar AND TURNED IT INTO INTO A INTEGRO BRAND, copyright (c) 2014 and also Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor. Used with permission by Gotham Are generally, a division of The Penguin Church, all rights reserved.