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Quotes by Designer
"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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"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."
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"I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work."
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"In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture."
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"If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection."
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"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."
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"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."
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"It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity."
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"You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things."
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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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"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
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"Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out."
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"What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!"
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"I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked."
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"Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were."
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"Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are."
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"I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body."
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"I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come."
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"Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants."
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"Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains."
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"That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models."
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"Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand."
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"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs."
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"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."
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"Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting."
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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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"A good model can advance fashion by ten years."
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"Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now."
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"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."
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"I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture."
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"We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part."
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