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Quotes by Designer

"I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body."

"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."

"That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models."

"I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years."

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

"Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat."

"Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer."

"I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues."

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

"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'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world."

"I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work."

"I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful."

"I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration."

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

"Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions."

"If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties."

"I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements."

"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."

"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."

"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."

"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do."
Time,

"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."

"I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill."

"Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this."

"I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics."
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