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Quotes by Designer
"I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill."
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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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"I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history."
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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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"I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work."
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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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"I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning."
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"If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties."
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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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"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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"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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"Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started."
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"I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire."
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"We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything."
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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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"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."
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"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do."
Time,
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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 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."
48
"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."
48
"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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"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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"If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments."
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"When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend."
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"I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come."
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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'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration."
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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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