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My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes.
What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
I go online at night and I order flowers, rare flowers, and then they come in the mail. That's my fashion detox.
Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after; it's just about today
To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.
The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.
My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.
I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.
I have an art-school background, not a fashion background where it's like, 'Oh, we're going on holiday to Miami.'
It can be refugees, it can be a pregnant mother, it can be a 15-year-old... homelessness can happen to everybody.
My philosophy has always been to help women and men feel comfortable and confident through the clothes they wear.
I love the romance of Paris. I love Angelina [tearoom and pastry shop]. I always get a Mont-blanc [pastry] there.
I love seeing women looking great in my clothes. I don't care who they are. I don't quantify people by celebrity.
The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.
The only way I can cope with me and my environment is to have this kind of wall around me. I'm exhausting myself.
I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.
I always say I lived my life with my grandmother. She was emotionally stable, and she was very encouraging to me.
One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before.
I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.
Sex and the City is the opposite of dignity. You have to have dignity for your body - this is with men and women.
I must know every aspect of my personal finances. Managing your money will help you make your money work for you.
We don't take on battles so small we know we can win, we take on battles so big we dare to dream of winning them.
My company is an extension of me, so when I designed my stores I wanted people to feel that they were in my home.
Every morning, I have a drink of spinach, blueberry, celery, carrot and Gillian McKeith energy food with linseed.
There were times when rehab and the halfway house were very, very tough, but I never felt that I wanted to leave.
I have a lot of energy after 2 A.M. I like to sleep in the morning. I have some problems at the start of the day.
The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Sometimes you don't really need armor to feel protected. Sometimes maybe you need just a chiffon dress to hug you.
Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.
There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.
Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.
My spiritual connection is about embracing everything around me. We're all the same. There are no boundaries . . .
When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.
I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.
New York is very career-orientated and it's hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business.
You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy
Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is
In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.
When people have good energy I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.
For women, I take inspiration from strong women with good aesthetics and integrity, and a little tomboy influence.
When I design menswear, it is important for me to consider where you wear the clothes and what purpose they serve.
I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.
In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!
Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.'
[On the start of her career as a milliner:] When I was six I made my mother a little hat -- out of her new blouse.
When you do something that you know is authentic - embrace it, run with it, and trust yourself before the critics.