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Quotes by Designer
"Design is not for philosophy it's for life."
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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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"I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy."
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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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"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."
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"We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns."
Open,
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"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."
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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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"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."
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"Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains."
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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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"It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion."
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"You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there."
Home,
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"If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed."
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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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"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."
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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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"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person."
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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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"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs."
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"It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic."
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"I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20."
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