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"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."
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Roberta Williams
"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."
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"The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural."
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Calvin Klein
"The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural."
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"I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous."
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Calvin Klein
"I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous."
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"The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique."
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Vivienne Westwood
"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."
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Calvin Klein
"I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold."
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"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame."
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Donatella Versace
"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame."
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"You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it."
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Issey Miyake
"You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it."
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"My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen."
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"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."
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Genevieve Gorder
"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."
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"I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot."
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"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."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"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."
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"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."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"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."
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"I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."
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William Morris
"I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."
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"I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped."
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"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."
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William Morris
"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."
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"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."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"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."
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"A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life."
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Issey Miyake
"A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life."
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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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"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."
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Christian Lacroix
"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."
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"Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting."
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Marc Newson
"Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting."
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"A good model can advance fashion by ten years."
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Yves Saint Laurent
"A good model can advance fashion by ten years."
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"All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it."
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Vera Wang
"All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it."
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"Commercials capture your attention, that's all."
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Calvin Klein
"Commercials capture your attention, that's all."
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"I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwear."
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Calvin Klein
"I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwear."
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"My friends, there are no friends."
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Coco Chanel
"My friends, there are no friends."
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"In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture."
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Marc Newson
"In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture."
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"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."
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Mike Davidson
"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."
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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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"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."
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William Morris
"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."
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"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."
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Coco Chanel
"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."
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"My men's-underwear print ads are very popular!"
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Calvin Klein
"My men's-underwear print ads are very popular!"
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"Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress."
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Coco Chanel
"Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress."
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"Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer."
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Genevieve Gorder
"Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer."
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"What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers."
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Vivienne Westwood
"What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers."
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"I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion."
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Donatella Versace
"I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion."
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"I very much like dance and dancers."
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Issey Miyake
"I very much like dance and dancers."
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"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."
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Rachel Zoe
"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."
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"I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20."
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"Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence."
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Brooks Stevens
"Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence."
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"Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer."
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Giorgio Armani
"Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer."
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"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."
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Calvin Klein
"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."
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"My clothes are very popular in Japan."
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Vivienne Westwood
"My clothes are very popular in Japan."
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"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make."
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William Morris
"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make."
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"Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially."
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Tom Ford
"Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially."
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"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."
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Yves Saint Laurent
"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."
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"Jeans represent democracy in fashion."
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Giorgio Armani
"Jeans represent democracy in fashion."
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"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."
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Yves Saint Laurent
"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."
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"If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed."
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Calvin Klein
"If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed."
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"One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else."
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Issey Miyake
"One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else."
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"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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Issey Miyake
"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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