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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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"Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol."
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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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"Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself."
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Genevieve Gorder
"Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself."
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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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"Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress."
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Elsa Schiaparelli
"Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress."
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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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"There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people."
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Calvin Klein
"There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people."
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"Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities."
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Mike Davidson
"Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities."
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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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"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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"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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"But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry."
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Christian Lacroix
"But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry."
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"Everyone asks, Will he make it, will she make it? You never make it."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"Everyone asks, Will he make it, will she make it? You never make it."
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"It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you."
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Mike Davidson
"It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you."
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"For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser."
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Mike Davidson
"For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser."
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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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"Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor."
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Coco Chanel
"Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor."
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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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"Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up."
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"I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure."
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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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"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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"If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out."
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Roberta Williams
"If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out."
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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 will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly."
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Genevieve Gorder
"I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly."
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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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Isaac Mizrahi
"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 don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship."
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Marc Jacobs
"I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship."
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"I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear."
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Calvin Klein
"I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear."
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"My name is more important than myself."
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Pierre Cardin
"My name is more important than myself."
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"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale."
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Elsa Schiaparelli
"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale."
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"I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical."
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Giorgio Armani
"I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical."
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"So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there."
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Genevieve Gorder
"So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there."
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"Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations."
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Paul Rand
"Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations."
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"Sometimes I miss hamburgers, I should say that. I miss the tuna pizzas at Mercer Kitchen."
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Marc Jacobs
"Sometimes I miss hamburgers, I should say that. I miss the tuna pizzas at Mercer Kitchen."
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"When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like."
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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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"There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator."
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Calvin Klein
"There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator."
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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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"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."
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Charles Eames
"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."
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"But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing."
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Vivienne Westwood
"But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing."
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"Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is."
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Isaac Mizrahi
"Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is."
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"Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much."
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Donatella Versace
"Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much."
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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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"The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore."
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Geoffrey Beene
"The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore."
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"Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood."
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Diane von Furstenberg
"Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood."
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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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"British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage."
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Alexander McQueen
"British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage."
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"I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success."
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Gloria Vanderbilt
"I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success."
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