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"Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it."
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Colleen Atwood
"Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into 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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"I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design."
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Stephen Sprouse
"I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design."
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"I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about."
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Genevieve Gorder
"I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about."
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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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"It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people."
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Marc Jacobs
"It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people."
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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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"Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time."
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"It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design."
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Christian Siriano
"It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design."
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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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"I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful."
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Norman Hartnell
"I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful."
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"All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels."
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"Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette."
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Bill Blass
"Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette."
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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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"Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well."
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Roberta Williams
"Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well."
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"Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs."
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Coco Chanel
"Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs."
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"But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a."
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John Galliano
"But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a."
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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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"Accent your positive and delete your negative."
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Donna Karan
"Accent your positive and delete your negative."
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"It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything."
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Ralph Lauren
"It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything."
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"Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital."
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Mary Quant
"Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital."
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"Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about."
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Bill Blass
"Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about."
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"It's not a party until the fire department shows up."
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Thom Filicia
"It's not a party until the fire department shows up."
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"No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important."
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"No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am."
Old,
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"I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics."
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Calvin Klein
"I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics."
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"People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes."
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"That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them."
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Genevieve Gorder
"That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them."
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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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Marc Newson
"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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"Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous."
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Sister Parish
"Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous."
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"I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars."
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Ralph Lauren
"I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars."
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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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"My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore."
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Roberta Williams
"My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore."
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"People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams."
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Ralph Lauren
"People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams."
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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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"Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady."
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Edith Head
"Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady."
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"You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy."
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"I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world."
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Marc Jacobs
"I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world."
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"The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea."
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Christian Lacroix
"The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea."
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"Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself."
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Hubert de Givenchy
"Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself."
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"I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape."
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Calvin Klein
"I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape."
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"If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it."
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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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"I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was."
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"I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body."
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Calvin Klein
"I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body."
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"I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy."
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Vivienne Westwood
"I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy."
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"Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn."
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Vera Wang
"Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn."
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"People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing."
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Calvin Klein
"People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing."
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