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Tory Burch

Tory Burch

Fashion brand

May 14, 2026

41:15
[laughs]
41:15
So [laughs] I took that, and I, I, I said, "Great." Um, but to do, go through a public divorce, to go through a public lawsuit of, you know, a company he started, and we had to go through that, those are just, like, periphery things.
41:29
Then you have 2008 with the macro environment of, you have this growing business, and 2008 happens, and literally overnight business stops.
41:39
So that [laughs] was, like, a whole other thing.
41:41
When you think about, you have 5,000 employees all around the world, there's, you know, you can't ...
41:47
Things happen.
41:48
And, and your name, I never wanted it to be my name, but my name is on the door.
46:42
[laughs]
23:21
How did you do it? How did you take your family and what was going on in your personal life and this incredible brand that was on such a crazy trajectory, how did you do it?
23:32
it?You know, I think I am very good at compartmentalizing, and I also have this drive.
23:39
I, I think it's almost the opposite of my father.
23:42
He never had a proper job.
23:45
He was taught that he didn't have to work.
23:48
And so my brothers and I all saw that, and we went the opposite way, and it gave me more drive.
23:54
But at the same time, we saw money come and go, and I will never forget the conversations that I had with my mother saying, "You always need to be financially independent." And that's something that she raised me with since I was a little girl.

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57:34
But will you just talk a little bit about the scale of that operation, what you're actually doing? Because I think it would be so interesting to an audience of people, specifically those that are listening to this show.

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