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Quotes by Designer
"A good model can advance fashion by ten years."
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"People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing."
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"Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process."
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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 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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"If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties."
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"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."
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"Design is not for philosophy it's for life."
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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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"It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion."
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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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"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."
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"I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill."
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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 in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold."
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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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"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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"And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you."
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"Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were."
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"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."
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"Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer."
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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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"The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you."
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"I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things."
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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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"I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked."
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