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Quotes by Designer

"Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture."

"I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful."

"Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie."

"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."

"Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer."

"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."

"I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it."

"The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse."

"I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?"

"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."

"I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure."

"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."

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

"The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union."

"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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