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Quotes by Designer
"I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful."
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"I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention."
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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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"Design is not for philosophy it's for life."
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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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"Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography."
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"I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea."
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"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."
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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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"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."
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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 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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"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person."
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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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"The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you."
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"If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties."
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"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame."
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"I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues."
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"That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models."
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"It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion."
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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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"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs."
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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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"I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20."
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"In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need."
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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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"A good model can advance fashion by ten years."
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"I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture."
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"I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will."
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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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"I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?"
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"Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer."
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