Globe. At the helm, a chief executive who came into the store seven years ago with no fashion experience but a determination to return the brand to luxury, attracting younger, high value customers. When i started the job, i often got the question, is ralph lauren still relevant . We had to some extent lost that to the younger generation. Francine today, i speak to the ceo of ralph lauren about the Company Founder and his plans to take the company back to its roots. Patrice louvet, thank you so much for joining us on bloomberg. Patrice very happy to be here. Francine do you have the most fun job in the world . Patrice it is pretty fun. Probably the thing that attracted me to this opportunity is the opportunity to work with ralph, right . This man is a visionary, incredible entrepreneur who has had amazing success around the world, and the opportunity to work with him, to partner with him, is really special, and i cherish it every day. Francine and you have to get along. He is such a fig
With 500 stores around the globe. At the helm, a chief executive who came into the store seven years ago with no fashion experience but a determination to return the brand to luxury, attracting younger, high value customers. When i started the job, i often got the question, is ralph lauren still relevant . Which is a painful question to listen to you. We had to some extent lost that to the younger generation. Francine today, i speak to the ceo of ralph lauren about the Company Founder and his plans to take the company back to its roots. Patrice louvet, thank you so much for joining us on bloomberg. Patrice very happy to be here. Francine do you have the most fun job in the world . Patrice it is pretty fun. Probably the thing that attracted me to this opportunity is the opportunity to work with ralph, right . This man is a visionary, incredible entrepreneur who has had amazing success around the world, and the opportunity to work with him, to partner with him, is really special, and i c
About chinas economic challenges, calling the country a ticking time bomb. Lets begin with the markets on this final trading day of the week as investors digest todays ppi number interesting, sara. I mean, 0. 1 is not that dramatic we had a negative revision, but coming off the stellar reception to cpi yesterday, maybe it looks a little bit worse yeah, after a zero percent in june, you dont want to see it tick up to 0. 3 in july, which is what we got, and we know Producer Prices are wholesale prices that feed in, so maybe a little deemphasized because we already got the cpi read but you just dont want to traders, investors are on guard for inflation to hook back up. Right . Like, we hope people are hoping that the inflation data, which has shown moderated inflation, been celebrated as good news, will take us down to the 2 target and the feds work is done, but theres a chance that, look, it could be sticky we still see a really tight labor market where wages are rising we see Oil Prices
Number came in soft enough to illustrate that inflations finally running out of steam so when the c pichlt came in around 3 way down from where it was before we all cheered. Many people bought stocks. Everything was fine, right wrong. That rally was a totally revolting development. Sure enough the averages spent the rest of the session selling off dow finishing just up 53 points while nasdaq advanced minor. A far cry from that yoef heated opening. Theres so many reasons why it was a mistake to buy stocks this morning. Because ive been spending this whole week teaching you how to avoid the kind of mistakes that make you give up on the entire stock market were going to unpack this one. Unpack it good mistake number one the vast majority of people who follow the stock market closely were predicting that the Consumer Price index would be up around 3. 3 . It was actually up 3. 2 . Take note. When most prognosticators predict 3. 3 inflation and yet 3. 2 inflation, guess what its not a surpri
Brands, valued at more than 8 billion, with 500 stores around the globe. At the helm is a chief executive who came into the job seven years ago with no fashion experience, but determination to return the brand to luxury, attracting younger highvalue customers. Patrice when i started this job, i often got the question, is ralph lauren still relevant . Right . Which is a painful question to listen to, honestly, but we had to some extent lost touch with the younger generation. Francine in this episode of leaders with lacqua, i speak to Patrice Louvet, about the companys founder ralph lauren and his plans to take the company back to its roots. Patrice louvet, thank you so much for joining us on bloomberg. Patrice very happy to be here, francine. Francine do you have the best job in the world . Patrice pretty close. Francine because it is fun . What was the most surprising thing about your job since you first started . Patrice there are so many things. Probably the thing that actually attra