Ivanka Trump
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 10 Jun
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All these years later. All these years later.
Well, I still wear the shoes.
I feel like the product, I think first and foremost, you have to have the right partner. So building a shoe, if you talk to a great shoe designer, it's architecture. Like making a heel that's four inches that feels good to walk in for eight hours a day, that is an engineering feat. And so I found great partners in everything that I did.
My shoe partner had founded Nine West, so he really knew what went into making a shoe wearable and comfortable. And then you overlay that with great design. And we also created this... really comfortable, beautifully designed, super feminine product offering that was also affordably priced.
So I think it was like the trifecta of those three things that made, I think it made it stand out for so many people.
So not being a designer, and this was true in real estate as well, I was never the architect. So I didn't necessarily have the pen and in fashion the same. I was kind of like a conductor. I knew what I liked and didn't like, and I think that's really important. And that became honed for me over time.
I would have to sit a lot longer with something earlier on than later when I had more refined my aesthetic point of view. And so I think, first of all, you have to have a pretty strong sense of
um of what resonates with you and and then as in the case of of my fashion business as it grew and became um quite a large business and i had so many different categories everything had to work together so i had individual partners for each category but if we were selling at neiman marcus we couldn't have a pair of shoes that didn't relate to a dress that didn't relate to a pair of sunglasses and handbags all on the same floor so you know in the beginning it was much more collaborative um
As time passed, I really sort of took the point on deciding, and this is the aesthetic for the season, these are the colors we're going to use, these are fabrics, and then working with our partners on the execution of that. But I needed to create an overlay that allowed for cohesion as the collection progressed. grew. And that was actually really fun for me because that was a little different.
You know, I was typically initially responding to things that were put in front of me. And towards the end, it was my partners who were responding to the things that myself and my team. But it's still, it's... You know, I always wanted to bring the best talent in. So I was hiring great designers and printmakers and copywriters. And so I had this, you know, almost like that conductor analogy.
I had this incredible group of, in this case, women assembled who had very strong points of view themselves. And it created a great team.
And that's a really hard thing, especially, I think one of the things that I love most about all of these creative pursuits is that ability to work with the best people. Right now, I'm working with my husband. We have this 1,400-acre island in the Mediterranean, and we're bringing in the best architects and the best brands. But to have a point of view...
And to challenge people who are such artists respectfully, but not to be afraid to ask questions. It takes a lot of confidence to do that. And it's hard. So these are actually just internal early renderings. So we're in the process of doing the master planning now.
Yeah, this is an early vision. Yeah. It's going to be extraordinary. Amman's going to operate the hotel for us and there are going to be villas and we have Carbone who's going to be doing the food and beverage. But it's amazing to bring together all of this talent and for me to be able to play around and flex the real estate muscles again and have some fun with it.
Well, especially on an island. It's challenging, meaning the logistics of even getting the building materials to an island are no joke, but we will execute on it. And it may not be this, this is sort of, as I said, early conceptual drawings, but it gives a sense of sort of wanting to honor the topography that exists.
And, you know, this is obviously very modern, but making it feel right in terms of the context of... of the vegetation and the terrain that exists and not just have a beautiful glass box. Obviously, you want glass. You want to look out and see that gorgeous blue ocean. But how do you do that in a way that doesn't feel generic and isn't a squandered opportunity to create something new?
Yeah, and so much, I mean, so much of architecture you don't see, but it's decisions made. So how do you create independent structures where you look out of one and don't see the other? Mm-hmm.
You know, how do you ensure the sort of the stacking and the master plan works in a way that's harmonious and view corridors and all of those elements, all of those components of decision-making are super appreciated, but not often thought about.
Like to make sure that the top unit, you're not looking out and seeing a whole bunch of units. You're looking out and seeing the ocean. So that's where you take this and then you start angling everything and you start thinking about, well, in this context, do we have green roofs? So if there's any hint of a roof, it's camouflaged by vegetation that matches what already exists on the island.
That's where the engineers become very important. How do you build into a mountainside? while being sensitive to the beauty of the island.
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