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Quotes by Designer
"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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"My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen."
23
"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."
23
"That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models."
23
"Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand."
23
"I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives."
22
"I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture."
22
"I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body."
22
"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."
22
"I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?"
22
"The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural."
22
"I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work."
21
"Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are."
21
"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."
21
"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."
20
"Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now."
20
"I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwear."
20
"In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture."
20
"If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection."
20
"I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink."
20
"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs."
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"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
19
"No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am."
Old,
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"Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting."
19
"A good model can advance fashion by ten years."
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