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"I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized."
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Marc Jacobs
"I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized."
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"Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death."
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Coco Chanel
"Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death."
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"I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product."
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Calvin Klein
"I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product."
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"Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer."
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Calvin Klein
"Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer."
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"The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists."
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Vivienne Westwood
"The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists."
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"I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers."
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"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?"
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Charles Eames
"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?"
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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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Karl Lagerfeld
"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 of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything."
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Marc Jacobs
"I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything."
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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 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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Vivienne Westwood
"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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"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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"I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20."
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"You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there."
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Genevieve Gorder
"You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there."
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"Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that."
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"We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp."
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Calvin Klein
"We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp."
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"I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history."
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Vivienne Westwood
"I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history."
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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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"I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school."
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Stephen Sprouse
"I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school."
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"A woman has the age she deserves."
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Coco Chanel
"A woman has the age she deserves."
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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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Rachel Zoe
"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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"Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous."
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Coco Chanel
"Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous."
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"If I can feel freedom then I can create."
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Marc Newson
"If I can feel freedom then I can create."
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"I think it's important to vote."
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Vivienne Westwood
"I think it's important to vote."
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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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"I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it."
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Marc Jacobs
"I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it."
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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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William Morris
"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."
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"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future."
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Coco Chanel
"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future."
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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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"I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird."
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Coco Chanel
"I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird."
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"It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it."
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Donatella Versace
"It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it."
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"Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again."
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Marc Newson
"Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again."
Now,
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"I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will."
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Shigeru Miyamoto
"I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will."
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"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."
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Charles Eames
"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."
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"I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work."
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Vivienne Westwood
"I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work."
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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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"As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!"
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Coco Chanel
"As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!"
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"My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily."
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Gianni Versace
"My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily."
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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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"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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"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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"Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people."
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Mike Davidson
"Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people."
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"Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes."
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"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
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Elsa Schiaparelli
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
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"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."
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Coco Chanel
"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."
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"People read things into my commercials that don't even exist."
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Calvin Klein
"People read things into my commercials that don't even exist."
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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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"I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards."
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Colleen Atwood
"I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards."
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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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