17: Rebecca Minkoff: How To Become A Fashion Icon

Business Unusual with Barbara Corcoran

Barbara Corcoran

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Rebecca Minkoff joins me today to talk about how she built her fashion empire - from her start as a young designer who gets a lucky break to her steady climb to 'household name' status. We talk about her work with female entrepreneurs and she shares her provocative answer for the age-old question of how to find balance. Listen in and hear why I found Rebecca to be wise beyond her years. Got a problem? Call me at 888-Barbara. Nothing’s off limits, so what are you waiting for?

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0:00.0	You're on with Barbara.
0:05.0	Hey, hey, it's me Barbara Corcoran and this is 888 Barbara.
0:10.0	That's right, it's time to answer all your burning questions.
0:14.0	From the boardroom to the bedroom, nothing is off limits.
0:18.0	So listen up for some advice on how to live your best life.
0:22.0	Each week I'll be answering all your burning questions and
0:26.8	sometimes I'll be asking them too. Interviewing some of the greatest folks I know to learn the secrets of their success so I can
0:35.5	share them with you. Today we have with us a very special guest in so many ways doing my research before the
0:46.0	interview I kept saying wow really wow really so you're here to hear all the wow
0:51.2	really is with me today.
0:53.2	First hand, we have Rebecca Minkoff.
0:57.6	Think of just a starting story.
0:59.5	If a young girl wants to be a fashion designer,
1:02.4	what does she do? Does she wake up one day and say,
1:04.6	I'm going to be a fashion designer? No, no, no. She gets the education. She knows somebody who knows somebody,
1:10.0	gets a start, does an apprentice, da da da da da.
1:13.0	Not with Rebecca Menkov.
1:15.7	She started in the high school costume department,
1:19.2	and 15 years later, she's a fashion icon. And beyond beyond that she's a great advocate for women
1:25.5	entrepreneurs everywhere but more importantly she started with virtually
1:30.2	no experience and then becomes a big deal in the fashion industry.
1:35.0	Well we're going to ask her exactly if that really happened and how it happened.
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