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Quotes by Designer
"Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress."
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"There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising."
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"Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started."
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"But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open."
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"Sometimes I miss hamburgers, I should say that. I miss the tuna pizzas at Mercer Kitchen."
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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."
Eye,
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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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"I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people."
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"Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another."
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"To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only."
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"You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think."
Hope,
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"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."
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"We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records."
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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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"I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toe designer has become a bit passe. It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together."
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"Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs."
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"That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it."
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"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."
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"I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years."
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"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."
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