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Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.
My mum has always been a huge inspiration for me and my work. She loves fashion and has always been so supportive.
I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.
I did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids and raise them!
What pushes me forward is everything I have learned: political, social, cultural. I put all that into the clothes.
I loved all those Doris Day visuals of her being a tomboy and then changing into this gorgeous girl in a ballgown.
I think my differences were, and my differences still are, that I don't really approach fashion in a fashiony way.
British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level.
Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.
The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.
Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.
I always wanted to create a collection inspired by sports. I never played sports, maybe that's why it intrigues me.
Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.
I just think it's great to show a gown that's $8,000 and a shoe that's, like, $25-but still look fabulous together.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
I practice yoga and take a steam-filled bath or shower. Then I sit quietly and review and prioritize my to-do list.
Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic.
I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.
The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity.
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.
When people have good energy, I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.
I still love Birkenstocks. I just think they are the most comfortable things; I even wear them in winter sometimes.
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.
All the embroidery is made in my father's workshop in India... and all the cutting and sewing is done in my studio.
I'd rather work with someone who likes what I do than create something for the red carpet that won't make me happy.
I put pressure on myself to propose something new - I think it's the minimum that you can do as a fashion designer.
I promised myself: Before your 18th birthday, you're going to be at Jean Paul Gaultier. And it worked. I was hired.
Style is an extension of yourself. My approach is to enhance the personality of the wearer, so he has his own voice
If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.
Maybe that's what I've based my career on: getting up earlier than everyone else so I get an extra couple of hours.
I have a vision for living. It's about elements of style. It's about all the things that I love, that I believe in.
The main pillar of my activity is making clothes, but this can never be the perfect and only vehicle of expression.
Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.
The aborigines in Australia, the way they dress is very honest; it's not about: "Oh, you wear a skirt, you're gay."
A man is attractive when he is slightly disturbing like a woman, a woman when she's a little disturbing like a man.
I'm a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.
Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.
When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.
The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let's make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.
There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.
The future is open, and I never make plans. As long as it's interesting to me, I try to live my life to the fullest.
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.
It's important to find what really suits who you are, because style isn't only what you wear, it's what you project.
I like to go out, but sometimes it's nice to stay cozy at home, watching movies or TV, especially early in the week.
There is no such thing as an ugly woman - there are only the ones who do not know how to make themselves attractive.
The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.
I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.