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Girls don't dress for boys.
I never wanted to be on a pedestal.
I was a cheerleader for nine years!
You have to hold onto your fantasy.
I was a cheerleader for nine years.
I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer.
Hard times always lead to something great.
I never keep anything beautiful in the closet.
There is an excitement about having nightmares.
My makeup hasn't really changed since the 1960s!
I realized that my strength was being different.
My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.
I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.
Always have fun with fashion. Dress to entertain yourself.
I just feel the traditional runway format is old-fashioned.
I don't like to have time on my wall; it's too-in-your-face.
I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.
[In the 1960s]...you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit.
Keep your sunny side up, keep yourself beautiful, and indulge yourself!
Celebrate the idea that you don't fit in. Find your own fit. Stay unique.
I can't wear a little makeup. I have to wear a lot of makeup or no makeup.
As long as I look good, I'm very happy - and as long as I look consistently me.
I just get makeup from wherever I can. From Maybelline to Chanel - you know, all over the place.
If I could choose to have one superpower, I would want to be able to make everyone love everyone!
Love is a disease of the heartin the end, there is no treatment curable and it might just kill you.
In the 60′s there was a look. In the 70′s there was a look, and in the 80′s. Now, it's a free-for-all.
A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
If I hadn't decided to be a fashion designer, I would have loved to be a Broadway showgirl or a Rockette!
My favorite song will always be 'Layla' by Derek and the Dominos, because my granddaughter was named after it.
It's just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support.
If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.
I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.
I've always been very into interior design, and I can't stand to have anything in my apartment that I don't aesthetically love.
Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
My prom dress was very sweet, very puffy, but I also wore little stiletto, pointed-toe heels, nylon hosiery, the whole nine yards.
I just did what I loved - flowers and rock n' roll. Pretty and punk. I was largely inspired by my dancing school classes and costumes.
In the '60s, I'd wear three pairs of eyelashes. Now they make them that thick, but back then they didn't, so you had to kind of build your own.
I love New York. You want to find out if you're any good? Try New York. Who sang that? Frank Sinatra? If you make it here, you can make it anywhere.
If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she'll come back.
Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they'd just walk around naked at all times.
I've always been a little off, but it's worked really well for me, and it still works. After so many years, you have a look, you become a brand, la la la.
With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.
I don't feel comfortable without my makeup on. I've got to have my lipstick! I just don't feel like the same person, and I don't like the way I look without makeup.
I would've been a really good costume designer because, basically, my clothes were like costumes, and I wanted to be a dancer, so there's all of that tulle and color.
At any appearance, I make sure that before the person takes a pic and runs away, that I make contact. All I can do is give that little bit of me, the kickback is miraculous.
It is a special, weird thing being a cheerleader. You need to want to yell and perform, dance, and wear a cute little costume. It's a thing you're kind of born with or without.
I never wanted to join fashion industry or being another Donna or another Dianne. I made clothes that I wanted to wear. I would cut, I would sew and I would wear, and it made me to feel better.
I remember in 2004, I had three gorgeous transgender models on the runway. That was my strength, in a way. That I did what I thought was gonna work, and I never paid attention to the industry's rules.
Oh, I love the kids more than any other age group. I hate to say that, but new life is with new kids, you know? They're the future. The sheer fact that they're young and eager, that's what makes them rule.
My favorite era was the '60s because it was filled with incredible creative newness, from panty hose to landing on the moon to Twiggy and Andy Warhol - I loved them, and they loved to wear my silver clothes.