Concerned People Quotes by James Jebbia

I'm influenced a lot by Chanel and by what Karl Lagerfeld has done.

— James Jebbia

Supreme wasn't meant to be a brand... It's a good name, but it's a difficult one to trademark.

— James Jebbia

I don't really care what a designer has to say.

— James Jebbia

We were one of the first to say, 'Let's make a really nice shirt for skaters and let's make it really well.' We don't…

— James Jebbia

Ralph Lauren... Ralph is somebody that doesn't change with trends and has just kept it up and gotten better and better. That's what we…

— James Jebbia

I much prefer if someone buys something from us that they plan on wearing it and not selling.

— James Jebbia

It really doesn't matter what you've done in the past. We just don't rest on our laurels.

— James Jebbia

I still feel like we're a skate brand - it doesn't mean we can't present our stuff well. It doesn't mean that when you…

— James Jebbia

I think the reason that we do things the way we do is because we respect the customer. And I don't look at what…

— James Jebbia

We just want to grow at a reasonable pace. Supreme hasn't changed for 20 years, and that feels very simple to me.

— James Jebbia

I'm not really concerned if people have this purist view of the New York Supreme thing. If they think opening our shop in Paris…

— James Jebbia

We don't want people to think of Supreme as this hard-to-get, exclusive brand. We're a brand of the people.

— James Jebbia

We're not trying to be everything for everybody. We're not trying to please the masses.

— James Jebbia

When we opened in Paris, we opened in the Marais. And when we opened in London, it was in Soho. These aren't, like, edgy…

— James Jebbia

Our business is as good as any high-end designer. We do good because we make good things.

— James Jebbia