Skip to content

James Jebbia

(1963) Fashion Designer

43 quotes in 136 categories

James Jebbia is a fashion designer.

Quick Facts About James Jebbia

Born: July 22, 1963
Profession: Fashion Designer

About James Jebbia

[Wikidata] American-British businessman and fashion designer... | [Wikipedia] James Jebbia is an American-British businessman, fashion designer and former child actor. He is known for being the founder of the skateboarding shop and clothing brand Supreme.

Quotes by James Jebbia

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

Chanel

Image

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

Difficult

Image

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

Care

Image

We were one of the first to say, 'Let's make a really nice shirt for skaters and let's make it really well.'…

Dumb

Image

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

Better

Image

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

Much

Image

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

Done

Image

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…

Come

Image

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

I think

Image

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

Grow

Image

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

Harm

Image

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

Brand

Image

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

Everybody

Image

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

Edgy

Image

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

Business

Image

My approach has always been to make things we were proud of.

Always

Image

My thing has always been that the clothing we make is kind of like music. There are always critics that don't understand…

Kind

Image

Ever since September 11, I've been quite conservative in what we've ordered. We've never really been supply-demand anyway.

Conservative

Image

I know what Stone Island means to a lot of people in England and Europe.

England

Image

We can have a leather jacket for $1,500, and if it's a good value, young people will understand that. But we also…

Good

Image

I feel a very important factor to our longevity is that, over the years, we have managed to create our own unique…

Beauty

Image

For us, the reason that our quality has been high, and I feel that our pricing has been reasonable, is because we…

High

Image

A lot of people dismiss what we do. They think, 'Well, it's skate, so it's got to be, like, big baggy pants,…

Baggy pants

Image

When I do read something about a designer it doesn't alter my thoughts about their collection when I see it in person.

Person

Image

We were making clothes for that New York skater, who is a picky kind of person with good taste He may look…

Fashion

Image

James Jebbia by topic