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Quotes by Designer
"I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie."
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"Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity."
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"People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train."
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"You know like it has its own personality, its own character."
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"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
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"Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family."
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"I'm not selling sex. I'm selling underwear and jeans, and I'm not trying to do it with pornography."
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"I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history."
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"But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long."
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"I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked."
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"We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric."
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"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."
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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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"Design is a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life."
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"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like."
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"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."
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"I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration."
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"I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually."
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"I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories."
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"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."
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"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."
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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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"We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning."
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"Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity."
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