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Quotes by Designer

"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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"I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body."
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Gianni Versace
"I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body."
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"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."
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Donna Karan
"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."
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"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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"It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion."
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Donna Karan
"It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion."
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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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Stephen Sprouse
"That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models."
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"I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years."
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Giorgio Armani
"I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years."
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"Jeans represent democracy in fashion."
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Giorgio Armani
"Jeans represent democracy in fashion."
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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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"A woman has the age she deserves."
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Coco Chanel
"A woman has the age she deserves."
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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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"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."
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Mike Davidson
"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."
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"When in doubt wear red."
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Bill Blass
"When in doubt wear red."
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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 eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues."
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"I was sort of open to do anything, I was free."
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Marc Newson
"I was sort of open to do anything, I was free."
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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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Karl Lagerfeld
"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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"I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world."
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Donna Karan
"I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world."
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"I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work."
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Genevieve Gorder
"I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work."
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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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"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."
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Genevieve Gorder
"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."
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"Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another."
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Geoffrey Beene
"Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another."
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"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."
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Marc Newson
"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."
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"My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex."
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Vivienne Westwood
"My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex."
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"If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties."
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Calvin Klein
"If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties."
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"I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements."
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Calvin Klein
"I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements."
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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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"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."
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Mike Davidson
"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."
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"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?"
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Charles Eames
"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?"
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"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."
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Christian Lacroix
"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."
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"It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything."
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Ralph Lauren
"It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything."
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"I'm neither Democrat nor Republican."
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Calvin Klein
"I'm neither Democrat nor Republican."
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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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Rachel Zoe
"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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"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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"Some people would like me to be round again."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"Some people would like me to be round again."
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"As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!"
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Coco Chanel
"As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!"
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"It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it."
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"Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic."
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Charles Eames
"Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic."
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"When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art."
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Stephen Sprouse
"When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art."
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"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do."
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Charles Eames
"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do."
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"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."
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Coco Chanel
"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."
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"Dressing is a way of life."
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Yves Saint Laurent
"Dressing is a way of life."
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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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"In difficult times fashion is always outrageous."
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Elsa Schiaparelli
"In difficult times fashion is always outrageous."
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"Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way."
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Donna Karan
"Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way."
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"No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important."
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"I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill."
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Calvin Klein
"I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill."
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"I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear."
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Vera Wang
"I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear."
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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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"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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