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Quotes by Designer

"Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol."

"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."

"Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely."

"I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toe designer has become a bit passe. It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together."

"I hate the terminology of "costume" because my clothes are not costumes at all. I think they're high fashion, avant-garde, and more couture, definitely, and yes, some of my pieces are not particularly wearable, but I wouldn't say they're costumes, I'd say they're more couture."

"Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer."

"You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise."

"It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act."

"Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future."

"I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues."

"I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections."

"Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that."

"But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know."

"There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising."

"I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet."

"I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea."

"I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world."

"It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots."

"It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!"

"We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives."

"Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle."

"Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities."

"Well I am from Annapolis Maryland. I went to High school in Baltimore, but I grew up in Annapolis. It was a cute town. We lived on a waterfront community. It was good, even though I don't really fit the preppy boater kind of style."
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