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Quotes by Designer

"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions."
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Coco Chanel
"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions."
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"Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula."
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Vivienne Westwood
"Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula."
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"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."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"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."
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"We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness."
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Rachel Zoe
"We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness."
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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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"I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted."
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Calvin Klein
"I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted."
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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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"Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer."
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Giorgio Armani
"Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer."
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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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Issey Miyake
"I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked."
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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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"Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers."
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Alexander McQueen
"Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers."
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"The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had."
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Roberta Williams
"The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had."
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"There's always some kind of hidden logic."
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Christian Lacroix
"There's always some kind of hidden logic."
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"I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was."
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"I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful."
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Calvin Klein
"I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful."
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"Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine."
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Donatella Versace
"Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine."
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"I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention."
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Calvin Klein
"I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention."
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"I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game."
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Roberta Williams
"I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game."
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"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person."
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Donatella Versace
"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person."
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"I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie."
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Edith Head
"I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie."
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"A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life."
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Issey Miyake
"A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life."
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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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"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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"People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train."
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Marc Newson
"People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train."
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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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Calvin Klein
"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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"I'm so involved in melancholy."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"I'm so involved in melancholy."
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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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"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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"The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith."
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Stephen Sprouse
"The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith."
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"I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful."
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Rachel Zoe
"I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful."
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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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Stephen Sprouse
"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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"Red is the ultimate cure for sadness."
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Bill Blass
"Red is the ultimate cure for sadness."
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"In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need."
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Colleen Atwood
"In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need."
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"British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage."
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Alexander McQueen
"British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage."
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"If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools."
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Mike Davidson
"If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools."
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"Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles."
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Colleen Atwood
"Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles."
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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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Calvin Klein
"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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"College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity."
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Tom Ford
"College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity."
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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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"The iPod completely changed the way people approach music."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"The iPod completely changed the way people approach music."
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"I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board."
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Mike Davidson
"I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board."
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"The difference between style and fashion is quality."
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Giorgio Armani
"The difference between style and fashion is quality."
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"I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped."
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"I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle."
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Vivienne Westwood
"I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle."
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"I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come."
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Marc Newson
"I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come."
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"The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?"
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William Morris
"The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?"
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"Attitude is everything."
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Diane von Furstenberg
"Attitude is everything."
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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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"What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers."
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Vivienne Westwood
"What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers."
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