Random fashion thoughts - Page 4208

It's not that I disagree with the bolded part, but they already have close to 200 stores spread out all over the world (with plans to open another 200 in the next two years), so it's not as if they are naive about international production logistics.

Are you being facetious here?

Are you calling all quantitative modeling bullshit?

I think there's a ton of potential in the mass retail market in America. If you put up Uniqlo locations up and down the coasts and in the larger Midwest cities, how badly would that hurt BR and Gap? Better looking clothes, that feel better, and cost less.

skip, what I meant was that if you open up an online store on a new continent you could accidentally fuck yourself if there's runaway demand.  see, for example, the dayton + wings and horns service boot disaster.

I get what you're saying, but at the same time Uniqlo is already a huge entity that has sourcing, procurement, and distribution capabilities pretty much equal to almost any major apparel retailer in the world.

it's also different from the Dayton situation in that Uniqlo goods don't require the degree of craftsmanship that the later Dayton boots were sorely missing from the demand surge

this is a really stupid comparison.

Edited by KingJulien - 8/24/12 at 1:55pm

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Should I be excited about the Belasco (LA)?

Actually, No. Their initial US forays failed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniqlo#United_States

i snuck in the chateau marmont last night for a private party, i went to get a drink and i look up and Sasha Baron Cohen was standing next to me with his wife

Asian jersey shore'd. Unless that's your scene.

i find that show entertaining late nights around 1AM
Friend planning it when i visit LA again (great place to visit, not sure I can stand living there though).
Just looking for a chill time with all smiles.

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i just wanted to point out that translating any concept from one culture to another is far from trivial.

I don't think that Fuuma would say that all quantitative modeling is stupid, but it's certainly worth nothing that such models generally require an expert user to properly apply them and properly intepret the results and uncertainties. It's also worth nothing that the more trivial the problem, the better models generally perform, which means that for very difficult, complex problems, a model is often as good as a shot in the dark. Why do you think companies adjust their growth and revenues projections constantly? Why do you think that companies fail in spectacular fashion, on a regular basis? The old saying "There are liars, damn liars, and then there are statisticians (or more accurately, data scientists)", is not a bad one to remember.

Also, greed can get in the way of reason. For example, it should have been foreseen that distributed risk does not mean that all risk therefore becomes infinitesimally small, but when people are making money hand over fist, all the blood streaming to the phallus makes for people to think.

Taking another shot at introducing this idea:

I think there should be something like this for SWD. I would start the thread, but whoever is the OP, I think, should have some kind of intuition for the subject, and be able to organize it in the way David has. I'm not that person.

It would be a useful thread, however, and people like me could learn a lot from it.

Note, I realize that given the diversity of SWD, this kind of thread could become impossibly hard to manage. But I feel like taking a shot at it would be worthwhile.