Tory Burch

It's easy for all of us to look at you and understand you've gone from that one store on Nolita to its 400 stores around the world now and think of it as, you know, success to success to success.

But surely there have been challenges on the way.

And I think it's always educational for people to hear about challenges and how you faced them.

Right, so it's like meeting the humans behind the famous name.

So, you're mentioning... Sorry, we'll get into politics.

You're mentioning of 2008 reminded me of the pandemic, and we're all working from home, and Anna...

You know, either called me up or emailed me and said, Tori is working on a letter that she's sending to the administration.

And this was, do you remember this?

This was about, you know, about the struggles that business owners were facing with the shutdowns.

Yeah, people picked up hobbies during COVID, but I didn't.

I was at my computer.

I did bake banana bread, though.

Yes, we kept ourselves busy at Vogue.

We're going to take a quick break.

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