Joe Mimran

Many other countries that Canada competes with, fashion is part of their culture, whether it be the U.K. or Italy. They get…

— Joe Mimran

Fashion has never been considered part of culture in Canada, and I think that needs to happen.

— Joe Mimran

In my early days, fashion was considered a very high risk industry. The failure rate is very high. Trying to get capital…

— Joe Mimran

There's a lot of funding of the media and film in particular, literary publishing gets recognized as culture. I think fashion should…

— Joe Mimran

There are different ways to raise capital that were not available when I was growing my business.

— Joe Mimran

No matter how hard it is to raise the capital to do that, do everything in your power to buy every property…

— Joe Mimran

People who come to Canada and have big dreams are really achieving something special from an entrepreneurial perspective.

— Joe Mimran

I would say I used to spend 60 percent of my time just to raise capital, when I was growing.

— Joe Mimran

The hardest thing, particularly in the fashion industry in Canada, has been access to capital.

— Joe Mimran