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Quotes by Designer

"In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need."

"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."

"I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention."

"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."

"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."

"I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20."

"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."

"Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are."

"No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales."

"I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked."

"People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing."

"If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection."

"Design is not for philosophy it's for life."

"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."

"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."

"I was sort of open to do anything, I was free."

"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!"

"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."

"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."

"Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another."

"I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories."

"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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