<span class="post-quotemark">"</span>What I've learned about working with a big company like <span id="230"><a bof-track="" class="kws_link imp clk profile_id_230" content="After an eight year period of absence, the minimalist designer returned to the helm of her eponymous label in 2012, before announcing her intent to leave once again due to personal reasons." data-e="profile.link" data-id="230" href="http://www.businessoffashion.com/community/people/jil-sander" img="profiles/asset/230/d79e401a2b2afdb53956d2fa1df8458cea0e6f13.jpeg" profile-popover="" subtitle="Founder, Jil Sander" title="Jil Sander">Jil Sander</a></span> is how important the structure is. You can have ideas and you can have money, but if the structure isn't right, if everybody at design and management and marketing and sales isn't in the same key, it's not going to work."

<em><span id="392"><a bof-track="" class="kws_link imp clk profile_id_392" content="The Belgian designer, formerly creative lead at Jil Sander, Dior and most recently Calvin Klein, runs his long-established namesake label." data-e="profile.link" data-id="392" href="http://www.businessoffashion.com/community/people/raf-simons" img="profiles/asset/392/raf-1541562514999477.jpg" profile-popover="" subtitle="Creative Director, Raf Simons; Co-Creative Director of Prada" title="Raf Simons">Raf Simons</a></span> speaking to Gert Jonkers, editor of <a href="http://www.fantasticman.com" target="_blank">Fantastic Man</a>, for Issue No. 14, Autumn and Winter 2011</em>