Les Wexner
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And we were a public company.
I called our board and I said, well, I bought this business.
And the response was, well, everybody can have a toy.
If this is something you want to play with, it's okay.
But it could never be a business.
The notion of Victoria should be a ladies' paradise.
If men like Victoria's Secret, that's kind of a bonus.
But in my imagination, they should feel uncomfortable when they're in the store.
That there's no mahogany paneling.
There's nothing that's welcoming.
This is a ladies' paradise.
It's nothing to do with men.
Maybe I was driven to escape from my childhood and to be something.
And to be something, maybe create my own world.
When it comes to the event that happened yesterday, what's so hard for me to witness is people stating that the president is a racist because I've seen him firsthand.
He is a racist.
He saved one of my best friend's lives, a black woman who has been with him for 18 years.
So he has a black friend.
He's a racist.
No, he saved her life.