Quotes by John Rocha - Page 2

At primary school, we would pick up plastic petals on the way home to make flowers. Now you might call it child labour, but we did it for pocket money.
John Rocha / Fashion Designer
Labour
Petals
Plastic
Primary School
Way Home
Call
Flowers
Pick
Pocket
Primary
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I made my final collection in college in London using Irish handwoven wool. That is how I discovered Ireland first; I just fell in love with it, really.
John Rocha / Fashion Designer
Ireland
London
Wool
Collection
Discovered
Using
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Unfortunately, I used to play in goal, and I broke my hand. Two fingers. The ball hit me and bent my fingers back. I used to play every Sunday. I was quite competitive.
John Rocha / Fashion Designer
Bent
Broke
Fingers
Sunday
Ball
Hit
Competitive
Every Sunday
Unfortunately
Hand
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Chinese people have that superstitious fix - people always do feng shui when they are opening a shop; even the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank pays people to do feng shui for them.
John Rocha / Fashion Designer
Chinese
Hong Kong
Opening
Shanghai
Bank
Fix
Chinese People
Shop
Pays
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Many women in their 40s make the mistake of wearing clothes that are too tight. Skimpy dresses and tight trousers can make you look older, so get the best fit you can find.
John Rocha / Fashion Designer
Clothes
Dresses
Mistake
Trousers
Best Women Look
Wearing
Tight
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If you ask me where do I belong, it would be somewhere in the Irish Sea almost - born in Hong Kong, Chinese mother, Portuguese father from Macao, lived in Europe most of my life.
John Rocha / Fashion Designer
Born
Chinese
Europe
Hong Kong
Mother
Portuguese
Sea
Ask
Life Mother Me
Life Me Father
Almost
Somewhere
Belong
Life Father Me
Irish
My Life
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Fashion is like a four-legged table: you need a good designer, a very good business manager, a good manufacturer, and a very good distributor. Without all the legs, table collapses.
John Rocha / Fashion Designer
Business
Designer
Fashion
Legs
Distributor
Manager
Table
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It might be a selfish choice, but I find it quite difficult to design for individuals and prefer the distance of larger schemes. It's the same reason why, as a designer, I don't do wedding dresses.
John Rocha / Fashion Designer
Wedding
Design
Designer
Difficult
Distance
Dresses
Might
Reason
Schemes
Selfish
Why
Quite
Prefer
Same
Choice
Find
Individuals
Larger
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I think my love of form is especially informed by my background, whether this is creating a wonderful silhouette in a dress or finding the perfect shape for a bowl or the 'just so' angle of a table leg.
John Rocha / Fashion Designer
Angle
Creating
Form
Perfect
Wonderful
Background
Bowl
Finding
Informed
Leg
Silhouette
Shape
Table
Whether
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I can speak Cantonese, but I can't speak about fashion - I learnt all my fashion in Europe, so often, during interviews in Chinese I just don't know the right word - it can be very hard to explain things.
John Rocha / Fashion Designer
Chinese
Europe
Fashion
Explain
Learnt
Right Word
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There was the Cultural Revolution just over the border, and Hong Kong felt quite dodgy. My younger brother's wife actually swam from China to Hong Kong to escape. I realised in the '60s that I had to get out.
John Rocha / Fashion Designer
Hong Kong
Realised
Revolution
Border
Escape
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Dubai is a vibrant city: Big cars, big buildings... it reminds me of my home town, Hong Kong. People are always on the move here, and there's a lot going on. There are some wonderful architecture and some not-so-wonderful.
John Rocha / Fashion Designer
Architecture
Car
Home
Big Cars
Dubai
Home Town
Hong Kong
Wonderful
Home Always Me
Lot
Buildings
City
Here
Move
Town
Some
Reminds
Vibrant
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One thing I learned from all my years in business is you really have to work with the experts: you can launch something yourself, but unless you have the expertise and the marketing strategies and machinery behind you, you'll never be successful.
John Rocha / Fashion Designer
Expertise
Machinery
Marketing
Work Business Yourself
Launch
Strategies
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As you get older, your skin tone will change, and that means the colours that suit you best change, too. Take a trip to a department store and ask for advice, or simply hold colours close to your face in the mirror, as this should give you a good idea of what works.
John Rocha / Fashion Designer
Advice
Department
Tone
Ask
Change Best Good
Face
Skin
Works
Idea
Close
Colours
Simply
Department Store
Good Idea
Older
Hold
Mirror
Store
Suit
Trip
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When I was young, we always went to our posh cousins at Christmas. My dad made sure we had new shoes and clean clothes - he was really proud - and that's why I felt different from everyone living around me. We had the first television on the estate, the first fridge.
John Rocha / Fashion Designer
Christmas
Dad
Clean
Clothes
Different
Felt
Made
Posh
Proud
Shoes
Television
Young
Dad Always Me
Christmas Always Me
Living
Why
Sure
Everyone
Around
Dad Christmas Me
Cousins
Estate
Fridge
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I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though - you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief.
John Rocha / Fashion Designer
Designer
Discipline
Fashion Designer
Outfits
Sea
Brief
Costume
Harris
Richard
Rein
Tight
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Whatever I design, it has to please my eye. If I go to work on an office block, I'll draw the office that I want to walk into. If it's a piece of crystal, it must feel the way I want it to feel in my hand. If it's women's wear, it must be something I'd like to see my wife dressed in.
John Rocha / Fashion Designer
Block
Eye
Fashion
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The most important part of my work on The Orion Building was the creation within the apartments of living space which inspires people and the way they live their lives, whether they have bought a one-bedroom apartment or the penthouse. This building is beautiful to see, sense, and experience.
John Rocha / Fashion Designer
Experience
Space
Apartment
Creation
Within
Work Space Experience
Living
Bought
Work Experience Space
Important Part
Inspires
Sense
The Most Important
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I'm like a conductor. I come up with ideas, and I get all these people to make great music together. I have a team of really talented assistant designers. I have architects in my office. People I trained from the beginning in menswear, womenswear, and home. I have a great team who know what I want and feel and translate that into beautiful results.
John Rocha / Fashion Designer
Home
Conductor
Great Music
Great Team
Ideas
Office
Results
Team
Together
Translate
Home Great Music
Architects
Assistant
Beginning
Home Music Great
Talented
Designers
Trained
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