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Quotes by Designer
"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 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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"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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"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."
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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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"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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"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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"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like."
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"I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements."
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"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs."
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"If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed."
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"I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about."
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"We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning."
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"I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it."
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"It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act."
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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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"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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"You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there."
Home,
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"It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!"
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"The iPod completely changed the way people approach music."
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"The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows."
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"I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful."
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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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"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person."
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"Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer."
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"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
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