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Quotes by Designer
"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."
69
"Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting."
68
"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."
68
"A good model can advance fashion by ten years."
66
"In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture."
66
"The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural."
66
"I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture."
65
"My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen."
65
"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."
65
"Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer."
65
"What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers."
65
"The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique."
Race,
65
"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."
64
"I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwear."
64
"I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy."
63
"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."
62
"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."
62
"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."
61
"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."
61
"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."
60
"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."
60
"You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things."
60
"Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture."
60
"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame."
60
"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."
59
"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."
59
"It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion."
58
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