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Quotes by Designer

"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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"As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things."
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Colleen Atwood
"As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things."
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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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"We all look for lost time."
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Christian Lacroix
"We all look for lost time."
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"Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual."
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Tom Ford
"Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual."
Now,
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"I've always loved movies, art and clothes."
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Colleen Atwood
"I've always loved movies, art and clothes."
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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 try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change."
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Gianni Versace
"I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change."
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"If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools."
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Mike Davidson
"If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools."
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"We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood."
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Mike Davidson
"We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood."
Eye,
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"Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul."
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Donna Karan
"Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul."
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"Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe."
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Bill Blass
"Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe."
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"People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive."
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Calvin Klein
"People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive."
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"I like perfume and flowers."
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Donatella Versace
"I like perfume and flowers."
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"From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important."
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Tom Ford
"From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important."
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"I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality."
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Marc Newson
"I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality."
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"We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet."
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Mike Davidson
"We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet."
May,
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"I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink."
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"I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing."
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Stephen Sprouse
"I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing."
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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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"Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie."
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Colleen Atwood
"Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie."
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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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"People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train."
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Marc Newson
"People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train."
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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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"I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections."
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Stephen Sprouse
"I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections."
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"I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things."
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Stephen Sprouse
"I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things."
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"There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny."
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Tom Ford
"There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny."
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"I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing."
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Coco Chanel
"I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing."
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"You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers."
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Genevieve Gorder
"You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers."
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"Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it."
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John Galliano
"Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it."
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"I don't like to make my life like a book."
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Marc Newson
"I don't like to make my life like a book."
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"The difference between style and fashion is quality."
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Giorgio Armani
"The difference between style and fashion is quality."
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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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"I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct."
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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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Genevieve Gorder
"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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"Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working."
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Calvin Klein
"Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working."
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"Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world."
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Charles Eames
"Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world."
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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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"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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"The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed."
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Diane von Furstenberg
"The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed."
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"My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France."
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Diane von Furstenberg
"My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France."
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"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."
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William Morris
"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."
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"The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you."
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Gloria Vanderbilt
"The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you."
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"Sometimes there are two very opposite directions, and we go with the stronger one at the end. It's an impulse thing, like, 'Oh, I love both so much, but it's got to be one or the other because the two don't work together.'"
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Marc Jacobs
"Sometimes there are two very opposite directions, and we go with the stronger one at the end. It's an impulse thing, like, 'Oh, I love both so much, but it's got to be one or the other because the two don't work together.'"
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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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"If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body."
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"The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed."
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Christian Lacroix
"The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed."
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"I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish."
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Vivienne Westwood
"I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish."
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"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
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Coco Chanel
"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
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