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We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.
I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Clothing was something I always wanted to do. I've been pulling tear sheets from magazines since I was a little girl.
Yes, I had cancer. Right now, I am totally clean. The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die.
If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art program.
I wash with my own soap-wear my own perfume...got to bed on my own sheets... have my own food products. I live on me.
Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you.
In order to be stimulated or moved in the future, we probably have to go into space and look at our world from there.
I like to just have fun and be silly and say pretty much whatever comes into my mind, do pretty much whatever I want.
Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.
When I'm in the street, the only people I notice are usually at least 70 years old, because they look really stylish.
Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving.
I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.
I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.
You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.
I don't think women need another black bag. Everybody has a black bag already, so I thought this season (needs) color.
Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.
An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.
I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.
People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach.
Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.
I absolutely believe my talent is God-given. I ask God for a lot, but I also thank him. I'm a very demanding believer.
I look at myself like a farmer, harvesting my wares and taking them to the market, and then I go back and do it again.
Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue
When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.
Taste is the feeling that permits one to tell the difference between what is beautiful and what is merely spectacular.
I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I just have to remember that as long as I'm doing it I'm living the dream.
The minute a male model looks like he's doing a runway walk, it falls apart. It should look like they're just walking.
I'm not interested in how people dress. Of course, I recognize if somebody's elegant. But fashion doesn't interest me.
The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.
I think the golden age of couture had some of the most incredible customers: women like Nan Kempner and all the icons.
You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it; it doesn't deserve you anyways.
I feel great, very healthy and alive and really happy that I can remember yesterday and I can remember the day before.
What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.
I am constantly drawing inspiration from everything I see-the places I travel, the people I know and the movies I see.
The more traditional bride still prefers white or ivory, but the young girls... seem to like the idea of using colors.
Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.
I've got what I want, and I've got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I do as a creative person.
I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.
If you feel strongly about someone, go up to them. Pursue what you want in life. Why be shy about something like that?
Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.
Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.
I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.
Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.