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"L.A. is my American city."
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Tom Ford
"L.A. is my American city."
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"Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence."
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Brooks Stevens
"Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence."
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"In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need."
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Colleen Atwood
"In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need."
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"One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else."
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Issey Miyake
"One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else."
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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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Issey Miyake
"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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"I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape."
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Calvin Klein
"I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape."
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"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make."
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William Morris
"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make."
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"I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention."
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Calvin Klein
"I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention."
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"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."
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Charles Eames
"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."
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"The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life."
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Charles Eames
"The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life."
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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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Mike Davidson
"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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"It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion."
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Donna Karan
"It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion."
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"I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20."
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"We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns."
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Mike Davidson
"We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns."
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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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Issey Miyake
"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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"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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Colleen Atwood
"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 never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped."
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"Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung."
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William Morris
"Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung."
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"I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness."
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Giorgio Armani
"I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness."
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"It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others."
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Calvin Klein
"It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others."
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"No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales."
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Calvin Klein
"No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales."
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"Accent your positive and delete your negative."
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Donna Karan
"Accent your positive and delete your negative."
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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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Issey Miyake
"I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked."
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"People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing."
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Calvin Klein
"People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing."
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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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Marc Newson
"If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection."
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"When in doubt wear red."
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Bill Blass
"When in doubt wear red."
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"Design is not for philosophy it's for life."
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Issey Miyake
"Design is not for philosophy it's for life."
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"You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise."
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Mike Davidson
"You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise."
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"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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Coco Chanel
"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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"There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it."
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Calvin Klein
"There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it."
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"I translated Beatles songs for my English class."
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Christian Lacroix
"I translated Beatles songs for my English class."
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"Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine."
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Donatella Versace
"Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine."
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"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."
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William Morris
"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."
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"Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world."
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Giorgio Armani
"Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world."
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"My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex."
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Vivienne Westwood
"My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex."
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"Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it."
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Yves Saint Laurent
"Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it."
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"I was sort of open to do anything, I was free."
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Marc Newson
"I was sort of open to do anything, I was free."
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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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Isaac Mizrahi
"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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"Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that."
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"Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system."
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Shigeru Miyamoto
"Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system."
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"If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art."
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William Morris
"If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art."
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"What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!"
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Calvin Klein
"What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!"
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"Italy is a divided country without a center."
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Christian Lacroix
"Italy is a divided country without a center."
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"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!"
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Coco Chanel
"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!"
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"I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people."
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Donna Karan
"I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people."
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"Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another."
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Geoffrey Beene
"Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another."
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"I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories."
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Marc Newson
"I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories."
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"I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me."
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Calvin Klein
"I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me."
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"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?"
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Charles Eames
"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?"
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"Dressing is a way of life."
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Yves Saint Laurent
"Dressing is a way of life."
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