“One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love...” — Imran Amed Quote

One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.

I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.

The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.

Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.

Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.

Mickey Mouse did not stay the little squeaky guy in 'Steamboat Willie.' He went on to have many different versions.

Wayne was my hero. He really loved doing Mickey Mouse and was very proud that he did it 32 years.

I know it was all a bit of a sham. But I know that Mickey Dolenz sang. And Davy Jones sang. And Mike Nesmith sang. And Peter Tork did something.

Mickey Mouse to me means safety, comfort and tradition. A general wash of happiness.