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Quotes by Designer
"There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art."
37
"I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines."
37
"I have a name, I have to take advantage of it."
37
"Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important."
37
"Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much."
37
"Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity."
37
"Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well."
Will,
37
"That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them."
36
"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."
36
"But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open."
36
"Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there."
36
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
36
"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."
36
"That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately."
35
"Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family."
35
"To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master."
35
"The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun."
35
"All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels."
Want,
35
"The only one who is alive today and still being talked about is Pierre Cardin."
34
"Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous."
34
"You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy."
34
"If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect."
34
"We're developing things, but I don't know what we'll go with for the show, so I don't like to talk about it."
Talk,
34
"I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie."
34
"I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone."
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