“Smart women are so beautiful. I think they are the most beautiful to me. I also think that men and women that are very comfortable within their own skin are gorgeous.”

What appears to be Tomas Maier, Creative Director of Bottega Veneta, speaking in a YouTube video posted by H&M to tease the brand’s Facebook followers in advance of the announcement of H&M’s next designer collaboration on September 9th, 2010.

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Dov Charney, CEO of American Apparel | Source: Guest of a Guest

“A lot of assumptions that I grew up with are no longer reality. Those were things that we could rely on: that lenders will always be there, that they’ll behave ethically and they’ll always have money, that you can trust that as the sun comes up the consumer will be healthy, that we’ll always be close to full employment in developed nations. Now there are no certainties.”

Dov Charney, speaking to Bloomberg Business Week, on the deteriorating finances at American Apparel, which today reported a $5-7m loss for the second quarter of 2010

“I was very keen and very stubborn…starting with the name, and of course the bottle, the fragrance….they all had to be things that I felt comfortable with and good about; that I would want. The name sets the tone for the package, the scent, all of it….”

Marc Jacobs, on his new YouTube Channel, explaining the origins of BANG, his new menswear fragrance