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Quotes by Designer


"An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful."

"The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural."


"The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique."
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"I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold."

"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame."

"My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen."

"I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about."

"Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that."

"I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was."

"A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works."

"But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it."

"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."

"Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting."

"A good model can advance fashion by ten years."

"I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwear."

"In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture."

"I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate."

"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name."

"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."

"Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer."


"What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers."

"It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic."

"I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20."

"I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry."

"I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes."

"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."

"If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed."

"I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start."
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