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"Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion."
Michael Ende
"Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion."
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"Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position."
Alberto Fujimori
"Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position."
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"I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you."
Bonnie Tyler
"I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you."
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"Fashion fades, only style remains the same."
Coco Chanel
"Fashion fades, only style remains the same."
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"My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They're light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive."
Diane von Furstenberg
"My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They're light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive."
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"Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture."
Issey Miyake
"Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture."
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"The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace."
Marcel Proust
"The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace."
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"The miniskirt enables young ladies to run faster, and because of it, they may have to."
John Lindsay
"The miniskirt enables young ladies to run faster, and because of it, they may have to."
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"There's never a new fashion but it's old."
Geoffrey Chaucer
"There's never a new fashion but it's old."
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"Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom."
Golda Meir
"Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom."
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"Pink is the navy blue of India."
Diana Vreeland
"Pink is the navy blue of India."
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"Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow."
Frank Dane
"Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow."
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"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."
Thomas Carlyle
"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."
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"One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else."
Issey Miyake
"One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else."
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"I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked."
Issey Miyake
"I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked."
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"A good model can advance fashion by ten years."
Yves Saint Laurent
"A good model can advance fashion by ten years."
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"If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion."
Diane Cilento
"If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion."
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"Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad. I've always cared about my clothes and my shoes."
Lady Gaga
"Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad. I've always cared about my clothes and my shoes."
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"That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models."
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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"When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion."
Richard Holloway
"When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion."
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"It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion."
Yves Saint Laurent
"It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion."
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"Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more."
Diana Vreeland
"Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more."
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"Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers."
Alexander McQueen
"Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers."
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"We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric."
Issey Miyake
"We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric."
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"So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date."
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
"So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date."
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"I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle."
Vivienne Westwood
"I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle."
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"The New is not a fashion, it is a value."
Roland Barthes
"The New is not a fashion, it is a value."
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"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs."
Geoffrey Beene
"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs."
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"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions."
Coco Chanel
"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions."
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"During the 60's, drug use was in fashion in the U.S."
Bill Toomey
"During the 60's, drug use was in fashion in the U.S."
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"I want to do other things like more fashion campaigns."
Katie Price
"I want to do other things like more fashion campaigns."
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"So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had."
Carly Simon
"So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had."
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"And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together."
Joan Collins
"And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together."
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"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."
Coco Chanel
"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."
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"I don't like fashion. It's very heartless."
Paul Simon
"I don't like fashion. It's very heartless."
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"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person."
Donatella Versace
"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person."
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"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit."
George Santayana
"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit."
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"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are."
Quentin Crisp
"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are."
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"Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh."
Geoffrey Beene
"Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh."
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"In difficult times fashion is always outrageous."
Elsa Schiaparelli
"In difficult times fashion is always outrageous."
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"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."
Vivienne Westwood
"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."
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"I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety."
Kevyn Aucoin
"I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety."
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
Oscar Wilde
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
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"The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it."
Jules Renard
"The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it."
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"I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must."
David Neeleman
"I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must."
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"Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches."
John Locke
"Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches."
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"He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave."
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"Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better."
Margaret Oliphant
"Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better."
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"Fashion is a very particular world, as you know."
Heidi Klum
"Fashion is a very particular world, as you know."
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"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."
Isaac Mizrahi
"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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