The consumers love it. That idea of disposable fashion is really appealing.

They target the 'good enough' consumer. Cost is harder to control when you're bigger. The challenge comes when you hit 200 to 300 stores--that's when you lose control.

He didn't follow someone's design. He designed what he wanted. That's an extreme reversal of where trends and styles come from.

[The quality of the products, made in countries ranging from China to Swaziland and even the United States, isn't impeccable--sizes are not uniform, and the stitching is clumsy at times. Yet some consumers don't mind the price-quality trade-off.] They target the 'good enough' consumer, ... Cost is harder to control when you're bigger. The challenge comes when you hit 200 to 300 stores--that's when you lose control.

tariff engineering.

[The theme of his upcoming album, which follows his short Christmas CD released last year, is] pretty much love, ... Not sexual love, but love as in 'love your neighbor.'