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"Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol."
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"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."
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Charles Eames
"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."
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"Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it."
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Yves Saint Laurent
"Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it."
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"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."
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Christian Dior
"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."
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"Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines."
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Enzo Ferrari
"Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines."
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"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."
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Alexander McQueen
"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."
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"I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product."
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Calvin Klein
"I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product."
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"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."
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Christian Siriano
"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."
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"Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer."
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Calvin Klein
"Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer."
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"We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next."
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Charles Eames
"We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next."
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"Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women."
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Elsa Schiaparelli
"Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women."
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"I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness."
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Giorgio Armani
"I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness."
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"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."
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Mike Davidson
"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."
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"If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out."
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Roberta Williams
"If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out."
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"It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act."
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Charles Eames
"It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act."
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"It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others."
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Calvin Klein
"It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others."
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"Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future."
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John Galliano
"Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future."
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"I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart."
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Ralph Lauren
"I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart."
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"I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues."
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"Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself."
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Genevieve Gorder
"Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself."
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"Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!"
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Donna Karan
"Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!"
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"I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980."
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Roberta Williams
"I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980."
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"I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections."
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Stephen Sprouse
"I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections."
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"Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking."
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Milton Glaser
"Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking."
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"Design is an unknown."
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Geoffrey Beene
"Design is an unknown."
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"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."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"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."
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"I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly."
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Genevieve Gorder
"I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly."
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"The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion."
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Geoffrey Beene
"The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion."
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"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."
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Enzo Ferrari
"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."
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"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."
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Giorgio Armani
"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."
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"A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes."
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Vera Wang
"A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes."
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"I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet."
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Giorgio Armani
"I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet."
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"The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail."
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Christian Dior
"The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail."
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"I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea."
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"You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers."
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Genevieve Gorder
"You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers."
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"I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want."
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John Galliano
"I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want."
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"What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!"
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Calvin Klein
"What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!"
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"To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in."
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Mainbocher
"To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in."
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"I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical."
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Giorgio Armani
"I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical."
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"The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her."
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Mary Quant
"The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her."
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"I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world."
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Donna Karan
"I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world."
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"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."
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Genevieve Gorder
"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."
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"It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!"
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Roberta Williams
"It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!"
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"There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people."
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Calvin Klein
"There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people."
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"We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives."
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Freeman Thomas
"We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives."
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"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."
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Genevieve Gorder
"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."
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"I don't design clothes, I design dreams."
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Ralph Lauren
"I don't design clothes, I design dreams."
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"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."
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Mike Davidson
"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."
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"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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Christian Siriano
"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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"Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things."
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Stephen Sprouse
"Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things."
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