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"We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning."
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"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."

"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."

"We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite."

"The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution."

"Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there has been no attempt to have any kind of getting along."

"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."
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"I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish."


"Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula."


"The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique."


"I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work."


"What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers."


"The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists."


"I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy."


"The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain."
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