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"Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh."
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Geoffrey Beene
"Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh."
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"I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features."
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Vivienne Westwood
"I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features."
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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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"The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired."
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Colleen Atwood
"The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired."
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"My life style in a sense is kind of private."
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Marc Newson
"My life style in a sense is kind of private."
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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 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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"Red is the ultimate cure for sadness."
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Bill Blass
"Red is the ultimate cure for sadness."
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"I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved."
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Roberta Williams
"I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved."
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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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"Italy will always have the best food."
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Diane von Furstenberg
"Italy will always have the best food."
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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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"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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"My clothes are very popular in Japan."
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Vivienne Westwood
"My clothes are very popular in Japan."
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"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."
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Coco Chanel
"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."
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"The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?"
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Charles Eames
"The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?"
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"And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture."
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Marc Newson
"And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture."
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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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"Attitude is everything."
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Diane von Furstenberg
"Attitude is everything."
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"A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives."
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Geoffrey Beene
"A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives."
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"Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie."
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Colleen Atwood
"Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie."
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"I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes."
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Marc Jacobs
"I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes."
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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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"I like perfume and flowers."
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Donatella Versace
"I like perfume and flowers."
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"Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer."
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Genevieve Gorder
"Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer."
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"Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life."
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Rachel Zoe
"Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life."
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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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"I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it."
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Marc Jacobs
"I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it."
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"The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse."
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Issey Miyake
"The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse."
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"September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world."
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Tom Ford
"September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world."
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"It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that."
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Calvin Klein
"It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that."
Fun,
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"I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?"
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Calvin Klein
"I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?"
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"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."
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Christian Lacroix
"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."
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"Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well."
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Vivienne Westwood
"Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well."
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"I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure."
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"I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing."
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Donald McKay
"I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing."
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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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"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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"Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death."
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Coco Chanel
"Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death."
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"I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict."
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Carroll Shelby
"I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict."
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"When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!"
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Calvin Klein
"When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!"
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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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"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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"The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union."
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Giovanni Agnelli
"The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union."
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"I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers."
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"Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file."
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Mike Davidson
"Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file."
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"The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain."
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Vivienne Westwood
"The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain."
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"I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct."
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Vivienne Westwood
"I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct."
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