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We know that creative people have all sorts of demons.
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Creative People
Demons
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My style has always been to choose the charming and quirky.
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Quirky
Charming
Style
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There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.
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Laid
Tomb
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Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.
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Echo
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I am not bothered about fashion's speed-up. I find it quite exciting!
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Bothered
Exciting
Not Bothered
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The clothes most worn by people are the clothes least commented on by the press.
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Worn
Commented
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Just as in life you always marry the same man, so I think you always buy the same clothes over time.
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Men
Clothes
Thinking
Life Time Man
Marry
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I knew him, but never felt that I got really close to Saint Laurent. But who really did? Betty Catroux, maybe.
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Saint
Betty
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The way that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform, determined to do something.
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Army
Determined
Dress People Way
Dressed
Uniform
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The way  that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform,  determined to do something
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Army
Dresses
People
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The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.
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Empires
Fallen
Heiress
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When I look at my clothes, I think of them as an expression of the joy and fun of fashion - with a bit of English eccentricity thrown in.
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Eccentricity
Thrown
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With a global society hungry for luxury, distribution and supply chains are now as important for executives as a hands-on feel for products.
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Chains
Distribution
Executives
Hungry
Luxury
Hands-On
Supply
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Smartphones are so fabulous in so many ways that it seems daft to be nostalgic about the days when an image did not go round the world in a nanosecond.
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Daft
Fabulous
Nostalgic
Round
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My clothes are fabulous - colourful, fun and by some very special designers. They deserve a better life than being sleeping beauties in a bed of tissue inside a trunk.
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Bed
Better Life
Clothes
Deserve
Fabulous
Special
Inside
Life Better Fun
Beauties
Life Fun Better
Trunk
Sleeping
Tissue
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The most powerful element is that a designer has to reflect the times. So often you can only sense a change, and not really understand until much later its significance.
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Designer
Most Powerful
Powerful
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I am grateful to have spent 25 years at the 'International Herald Tribune' - a newspaper where I had unstinting support in being able to express myself freely and honestly.
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Grateful
Honestly
Freely
Newspaper
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Who needs to graduate from Central Saint Martins in London or New York's Fashion Institute of Technology when a homemade outfit can go viral on YouTube with millions of hits?
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Technology
Fashion
Homemade
Institute
London
Millions
Needs
Saint
Viral
Central
Graduate
Hits
Outfit
York
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I have a love for colorful things. I'm a fashion maximalist. I come from the school of people who look at the decoration in Marie Antoinette's bedroom, and think 'Why so reserved?'
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Bedroom
Colorful
Decoration
Marie
Reserved
Love Look People
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At the 'Times,' all journalists on every subject followed the same rules and were supposed to meet the same standards, so I never really thought about fashion writing as being in a bubble.
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Standards
Bubble
Followed
Journalists
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As the fashion carousel spins ever faster, the concern is that, while the stream of newness never runs out, there's going to be a good deal more crash and burn among designers in the future.
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Concern
Crash
Faster
Newness
Burn
Carousel
Good Deal
Runs
Stream
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The natural end of an era, as designers whose houses bear their names grow old and pass away, combined with the arrival of digital cameras and Internet exposure, has created a perfect storm.
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Cameras
Digital
Exposure
Storm
Arrival
Bear
Combined
Houses
Pass
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In the mid-1990s, when I stopped having to run from the shows to the film developing lab and first saw digital images, I blessed technology and was convinced that my working life was changing for the better.
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Blessed
Convinced
Developing
Digital
Working Life
Images
Lab
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The clothes that fire up my emotions are colorful and 'different' pieces. My eye still picks out gilded-cloque glamour from among Burberry's streamlined trench coats or a hand-printed coat from Dries Van Noten.
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Colorful
Fire
Glamour
Picks
Coat
Streamlined
Trench
Van
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The clothes that fire up my emotions are colorful and "different" pieces. My eye still picks out gilded-cloque glamour from among Burberry's streamlined trench coats or a hand-printed coat from Dries Van Noten.
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Eye
Fire
Hands
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I think there's too much mixing fashion and intellect. Fashion ultimately is designed to cover the human body, to give you joy, to make you feel better. I don't think it has to have a great intellectual meaning.
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Human Body
Intellect
Mixing
Cover
Designed
Ultimately
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I find some collections to be more vibrant than others, but the designers who last are those who are able to continue to be creative within the mold they have cast, usually right at the beginning of their careers.
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Careers
Collections
Mold
Cast
Designers
Vibrant
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Fledgling designers need investment - but how much easier it is to put them in a dead man or woman's shoes, perhaps also backing the new designer's namesake line, but only as what the French call a 'danseuse,' a plaything.
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Designer
Investment
Backing
French
Plaything
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I am not a hoarder, but my wardrobe is the antithesis of fast fashion. I buy clothes - beautiful in looks and make - to last. I originally stored away things like Ossie Clark because I could not bear to part with such treasures.
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Antithesis
Bear
Clark
Originally
Stored
Treasures
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I am thrilled to become International Vogue Editor at Condé Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to have the opportunity to write for a wider global audience through the Vogue websites.
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Commitment
Real
Writing
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Shoes? I have loved them all: '60s pumps; white Courreges ankle boots; platform soles from the first time around, in the '70s; more boots - ankle, calf, and knee-high; 1980s sneakers; pin heels and wedges; Mary Janes and stilettos.
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Boots
First Time
Heels
Mary
Shoes
Sneakers
White
Ankle
Calf
Loved
Pin
Platform
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I am thrilled to become international 'Vogue' editor at Conde Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to have the opportunity to write for a wider global audience through the 'Vogue' websites.
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Commitment
Excellence
Journalistic
Editor
Thrilled
Websites
Wider
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There is no doubt that online shopping has fed the craze for speed, because when you can't touch the fabric or try on the outfit, the only emotion you experience is the excitement of the purchase and the thrill of beating everyone else to it.
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Experience
Doubt
Emotion
Excitement
Fabric
No Doubt
Online
Shopping
Speed
Thrill
Touch
Everyone
Try
Beating
Else
Everyone Else
Fed
Outfit
Purchase
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If fashion is for everyone, is it fashion? The answer goes far beyond the collections and relates to the speed of fast fashion. There is no longer a time gap between when a small segment of fashion-conscious people pick up a trend and when it is all over the sidewalks.
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Collections
Speed
Gap
Relates
Segment
Trend
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I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies.
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Audience
Captivated
Clothes
Couture
Elegant
Fashion Show
Gilded
Luck
Nina
Princess
Taken
White
Boarding
Grand
Ladies
Salon
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Nan Kempner wore one of the first Saint Laurent trouser suits to one of those fancy Madison Avenue restaurants and was denied access. She famously took off her pants and walked in wearing only the jacket. And it was that kind of revolution that was echoed in fashion and in life.
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Access
Denied
Fancy
Fashion
Madison
Madison Avenue
Pants
Restaurants
Revolution
Saint
Avenue
Wearing
Jacket
Walked
Wore
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With the traditional six-month lead time on the delivery of international show content, designer collections can be outpaced by the so-called fast fashion chains. H&M, Topshop and Zara, or even Target and J. Crew, would have their versions for sale before the designer looks hit the stores.
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Chains
Collections
Crew
Delivery
Designer
Stores
Target
Traditional
Versions
So-Called
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I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar or a euro for every time I use the word 'I,' you would be a poor person. But this is not true in general. I like the idea of being able to stand away and make a judgement.
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Euro
Journalist
Judgement
Opinion
General
Dollar
Every Time
In Fact
Trained
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I always have separated myself from my critiques of collections. My judgment is not about whether I would wear it - but how the collection stands in the lexicon of an established designer. As I am a maximalist, not a minimalist, I don't wear Armani or Celine - but I so appreciate what they have achieved.
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Appreciate
Armani
Designer
Minimalist
Myself Always I Am
Achieved
Collection
Established
Myself I Am Always
Separated
Stands
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Only the fat-cat corporations can really afford to put on two mega-ready-to-wear shows a year, or four if you add two haute couture shows, or six if you count men's wear. Resort and prefall push the number up to eight. A couple of promotional shows in Asia, Brazil, Dubai or Moscow can bring the count to 10.
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Add
Asia
Brazil
Corporations
Couture
Dubai
Eight
Moscow
Six
Afford
Count
Number
Push
Resort
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Minimalism? It is something I appreciate as an art form but leave to others - unless you count a collection of warhorse-workwear Yves Saint Laurent trouser suits. Maybe my penchant for hippie-deluxe eccentricity came from an escapist dream of a different world. It was tough being a working mom in the 1970s.
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Dream
Appreciate
Eccentricity
Form
Minimalism
Saint
Suits
Tough
Collection
Art Form
Came
Count
Different World
Leave
Working
Escapist
Maybe
Unless
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There are some designers who flash and burn - Courreges is an example of that. But he still marked fashion history. And I don't think that longevity is always a badge of honor. Modern brand management means that we are always celebrating birthdays, when what is exciting about fashion is innovation, not repetition.
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Flash
Honor
Innovation
Longevity
Management
Repetition
Badge
Burn
Celebrating
Marked
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I think there's a sort of agony with all intelligent and very creative designers that it's only fashion, that in the end it's only the decorative arts. I had a feeling towards the end that Saint Laurent and Berge were very keen to attain that immortality that a lot of designers long for. You know, those endless exhibitions.
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Agony
Endless
Exhibitions
Immortality
Intelligent
Saint
Arts
Attain
Decorative
Designers
In The End
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I don't really believe in elegance. Ever since I first came to France many years ago to do the Chambre Syndicale course, I always felt I was somehow lacking, first of all being British - obviously a disaster! But I was also puzzled with this idea that you have to tie your Hermes scarf just right, or you can only wear black.
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Disaster
Elegance
France
Lacking
Puzzled
Believe Always Your
First Of All
Scarf
Tie
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As a journalist, I cannot help imagining with excitement a new era with a face-off between Hedi Slimane at YSL and Raf Simons at Dior - a magnificent battle of style and wills to echo the Armani/Versace, Gucci/Prada or even Chanel/Schiaparelli face-offs of earlier years. But I remind myself that this is not a game of chess.
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Battle
Chess
Dior
Excitement
Journalist
Magnificent
New Era
Earlier
Echo
Imagining
Remind
Wills
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I am not really sure that Diana Vreeland did Yves Saint Laurent a favor, as opposed to the world, by putting that exhibition at the Met in 1983. Because I'm sure that Saint Laurent started looking back at his own work. You see that with artists, don't you? Once they get their first retrospective, it's really hard for them to push ahead.
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Diana
Looking Back
Retrospective
Saint
Work World I Am
Ahead
Exhibition
Favor
Push
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