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Quotes by Designer
"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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"And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture."
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"Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process."
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"The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you."
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"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
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"We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning."
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"This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it."
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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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"You know like it has its own personality, its own character."
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"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."
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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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"I'm not selling sex. I'm selling underwear and jeans, and I'm not trying to do it with pornography."
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"I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet."
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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 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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"The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea."
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"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."
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"I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning."
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"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."
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"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
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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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"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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"As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom."
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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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"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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"So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me."
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"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."
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