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Quotes by Designer
"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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"I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories."
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"I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first."
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"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
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"Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity."
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"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame."
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"Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much."
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"Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity."
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"In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything."
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"I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea."
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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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"We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric."
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"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."
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"And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture."
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"Design is a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life."
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"I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design."
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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 wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it."
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"I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually."
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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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"I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality."
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"My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart."
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"We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning."
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