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Tory Burch

πŸ‘€ Speaker
840 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

And so it was during the time that I was a stay-at-home mom that I worked on this concept because I knew I wanted to go back to work.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

I just didn't know what that work would be.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

So in tandem, I was working on a school, starting a school, and I was also working on starting a company.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

And it was about reviving a company from the 60s and 70s that my mom used to wear.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

It was called Jack's.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

I was going to do it.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

I worked on it for months and decided finally that the school would go off to the side.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

I would try to start this company.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

And there was this great entrepreneur named Sally Hansen.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

And she had hired Rudy Gernreich, who was the designer at the time.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

They started this company called Jax.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

And the best way to describe it is like, it was great pieces that were impossible to find.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

Right.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

Audrey Hepburn wore it, Jackie O, all these incredibly stylish people.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

What happened to Jack?

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

And so it went out of business, but I had a lot of the clothes because my mother wore it.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

And so I did all of this research.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

I spent months on it and I got in touch with this incredible woman named Corby who used to run their New York showroom.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

She ended up getting me in touch with Sally Hansen.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

And after months of work and a giant presentation, I got her on the phone and