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Quotes by Designer

"Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy."
Time,

"We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns."
Open,


"Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress."

"Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes."

"The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun."

"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."


"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."

"To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need."

"If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect."

"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."

"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."

"Sometimes I miss hamburgers, I should say that. I miss the tuna pizzas at Mercer Kitchen."

"I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die."

"When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like."

"I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines."

"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."

"Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another."

"To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only."

"I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy."

"A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes."

"I have a name, I have to take advantage of it."

"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,

"My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart."

"Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important."

"Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol."
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