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"All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels."
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"I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict."
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Carroll Shelby
"I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict."
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"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."
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Christian Audigier
"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."
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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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"Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful."
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Giovanni Agnelli
"Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful."
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"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."
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Marc Jacobs
"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."
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"It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years."
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Vera Wang
"It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years."
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"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."
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Genevieve Gorder
"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."
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"We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors."
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David Bromstad
"We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors."
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"Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of."
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Mary Quant
"Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of."
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"There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art."
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John Galliano
"There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art."
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"I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January."
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Genevieve Gorder
"I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January."
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"I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines."
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Stephen Sprouse
"I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines."
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"My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet."
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Manolo Blahnik
"My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet."
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"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."
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Vivienne Westwood
"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."
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"I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday."
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"Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America."
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"When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business."
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Vera Wang
"When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business."
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"Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important."
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Geoffrey Beene
"Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important."
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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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"Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well."
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Roberta Williams
"Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well."
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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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"We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?"
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Tom Ford
"We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?"
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"The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired."
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Colleen Atwood
"The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired."
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"Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family."
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Sister Parish
"Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family."
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"When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great."
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Vera Wang
"When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great."
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"People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes."
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"I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved."
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Roberta Williams
"I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved."
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"You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy."
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"Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself."
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Hubert de Givenchy
"Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself."
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"I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman."
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Vera Wang
"I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman."
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"I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die."
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Roberta Williams
"I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die."
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"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."
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Marc Jacobs
"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."
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"I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes."
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Marc Jacobs
"I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes."
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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 had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards."
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Colleen Atwood
"I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards."
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"You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing."
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"I design for the woman who loves being a woman."
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Diane von Furstenberg
"I design for the woman who loves being a woman."
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"The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing."
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"The only one who is alive today and still being talked about is Pierre Cardin."
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Pierre Cardin
"The only one who is alive today and still being talked about is Pierre Cardin."
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"It's not a party until the fire department shows up."
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Thom Filicia
"It's not a party until the fire department shows up."
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"It just seemed too weird to me. I don't know, maybe they were smoking a joint in the car downstairs from their parents' apartment. I had to go that far to put together a scenario of how they could have possibly recognized me."
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Marc Jacobs
"It just seemed too weird to me. I don't know, maybe they were smoking a joint in the car downstairs from their parents' apartment. I had to go that far to put together a scenario of how they could have possibly recognized me."
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"People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this."
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Stella McCartney
"People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this."
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"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."
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Christian Siriano
"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."
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"People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams."
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Ralph Lauren
"People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams."
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"The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come."
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Sister Parish
"The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come."
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"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."
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Diane von Furstenberg
"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."
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"It has not been an easy name, yet it has brought me many a laugh."
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Sister Parish
"It has not been an easy name, yet it has brought me many a laugh."
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"I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested."
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Genevieve Gorder
"I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested."
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"I have a name, I have to take advantage of it."
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Pierre Cardin
"I have a name, I have to take advantage of it."
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