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Quotes by Designer
"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."
59
"The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural."
59
"I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board."
57
"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."
56
"Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting."
55
"In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture."
55
"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame."
55
"The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique."
Race,
55
"My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen."
54
"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."
54
"A good model can advance fashion by ten years."
53
"I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture."
53
"I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwear."
53
"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."
52
"Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer."
52
"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."
52
"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."
52
"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."
51
"What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers."
51
"Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture."
51
"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."
50
"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."
50
"You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things."
50
"I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention."
50
"No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales."
50
"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."
50
"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."
49
"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."
49
"People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing."
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