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Quotes by Designer

"Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it."

"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."

"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future."

"I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design."

"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."

"It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people."

"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."


"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."

"I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful."

"All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels."
Want,

"I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish."

"Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well."
Will,

"Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs."

"But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a."

"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."

"No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am."
Old,

"I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics."

"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."

"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."

"Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous."

"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."

"We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp."

"My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore."

"You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy."

"I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world."

"The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea."

"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."

"People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing."
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