TORY BURCH

The carpets have been rolled up and the racks of clothes have disappeared, leaving only a few stray feathers and sequins behind as another New York Fashion Week ends.

Some think they know the Tory Burch aesthetic because of the ubiquitous iconic gold metal branding on shoes and handbags, but more recently Burch has been focusing on the unexpected.

With a spectacular Hudson River sunset as a backdrop, models wearing dusty colors streamed onto a cement runway, as Tory Burch’s vision for spring and summer 2023 came to life during New York Fashion Week.

The American businesswoman and philanthropist launched her namesake fashion label in 2004 and quickly learned the importance of listening and networking.

Designer Tory Burch says she’s noticed women don’t want to have rules about what they can wear and when they can wear it.

FILE - The Christian Siriano collection is modeled during Fashion Week in New York on Feb. 6, 2020. With no celebs in the front row, no paparazzi chasing models down the streets, no stiletto-heeled crowds and no live shows at all, is there even a point to doing Fashion Week in 2020? Is there even a point to doing New York Fashion Week in 2020? “Ultimately fashion is a business, and Fashion Week is a platform for designers to do business,” says Steven Kolb, chief executive of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, which organizes the semi-annual event. But this is really, really seismic.

Tory Burch, the fashion icon who launched a preppy-chic lifestyle brand in 2004 that now tops $1.5 billion in sales, is on a mission: to advance women empowerment and entrepreneurship by shattering stereotypes and creating new norms. Inspired by her own experience as a working mother launching a business, in which she says she received her "own fair share of patronizing pats on the back," Burch started the Tory Burch Foundation in 2009. Through a program with Bank of America, the Tory Burch Foundation has provided $54 million in affordable loans to more than 2,800 women entrepreneurs. What were the biggest challenges you faced being a woman and trying to get your fashion line off the ground? I got my fair share of patronizing pats on the back when I was first starting out.

In this week’s edition of “Sounds of the Toyota Green Room,” fashion designer Tory Burch gives “CBS This Morning” co-host Charlie Rose a special present.

Fashion designer Tory Burch launched her company from her kitchen table in 2004. Now the brand is worth more than $3 billion with 168 stores worldwide. In 2009 Burch created the Tory Burch Foundation to empower female entrepreneurs. She joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss a new program that will grant 10 entrepreneurs business education, mentorship and networking.