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Stephen Sprouse

"That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models."

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"That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models."

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Amber Hurdle

"Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter."

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Amber Hurdle

"Which outfits do you get the most compliments on when you are wearing them? What colors make you feel healthy, vibrant, and alive?"

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Amber Hurdle

"The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for."

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Amber Hurdle

"I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested."

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Amber Hurdle

"In difficult times fashion is always outrageous."

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Amber Hurdle

"Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up."

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Amber Hurdle

"That civet-jasmine blend you're wearing tonight absolutely clashes with the third-level formal style of your dress, you know."

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Amber Hurdle

"An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy."

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"People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them."

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"I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school."
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"The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith."
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"I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines."
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"But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long."
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"I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design."
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Stephen Sprouse
"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
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"I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections."
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"When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art."
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"Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography."
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"I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things."
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