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Quotes by Designer

"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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"When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen."
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Tom Ford
"When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen."
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"Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer."
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Calvin Klein
"Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer."
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"I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that."
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Calvin Klein
"I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that."
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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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"Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods."
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Genevieve Gorder
"Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods."
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"We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears."
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Calvin Klein
"We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears."
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"You know like it has its own personality, its own character."
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Marc Newson
"You know like it has its own personality, its own character."
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"I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes."
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Yves Saint Laurent
"I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes."
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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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Rachel Zoe
"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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"Jeans represent democracy in fashion."
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Giorgio Armani
"Jeans represent democracy in fashion."
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"I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics."
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Calvin Klein
"I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics."
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"Style is primarily a matter of instinct."
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Bill Blass
"Style is primarily a matter of instinct."
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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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"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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Calvin Klein
"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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"L.A. is my American city."
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Tom Ford
"L.A. is my American city."
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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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"You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things."
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Marc Newson
"You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things."
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"Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now."
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Brooks Stevens
"Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now."
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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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"When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career."
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Calvin Klein
"When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career."
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"I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men."
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Coco Chanel
"I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men."
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"I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy."
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Calvin Klein
"I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy."
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"I like perfume and flowers."
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Donatella Versace
"I like perfume and flowers."
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"I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink."
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"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."
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Donatella Versace
"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."
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"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
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Coco Chanel
"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
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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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Marc Newson
"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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"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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Genevieve Gorder
"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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"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
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Stephen Sprouse
"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
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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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"Red is the ultimate cure for sadness."
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Bill Blass
"Red is the ultimate cure for sadness."
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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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Genevieve Gorder
"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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"I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy."
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Yves Saint Laurent
"I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy."
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"Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul."
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Donna Karan
"Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul."
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"I don't think about my fame very much."
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Calvin Klein
"I don't think about my fame very much."
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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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Vivienne Westwood
"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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"But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants."
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Vivienne Westwood
"But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants."
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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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"Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable."
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Donna Karan
"Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable."
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"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
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Coco Chanel
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
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"Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie."
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Colleen Atwood
"Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie."
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"Everything in life... has to have balance."
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Donna Karan
"Everything in life... has to have balance."
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"I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent."
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Marc Jacobs
"I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent."
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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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Calvin Klein
"I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold."
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"I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success."
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Gloria Vanderbilt
"I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success."
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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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"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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"Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous."
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Coco Chanel
"Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous."
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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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