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I don't feel too excited about fashion today People just want cheap fast clothes and are happy to look like everyone else
I had only two girlfriends. I didn't have many friends because I was staying at home and dreaming - drawing and dreaming.
If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.
Skin bathed in summer sunset light is sultry and sublime. Every woman looks irresistible in its glow-relaxed and sensual.
When you're with a big TV channel, there's a sense of having to behave in a certain way in order to get audience figures.
Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.
I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make it last.'
In fashion, we have a reputation for being such a façade, fake people, but none of the fashion people who I know are fake.
The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'
My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.
Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.
New York accepts everybody. It doesn't matter your sex, color, religion. Everybody works together to create a better life.
Anyhow, even though I have this home theater, I love going out to the movies. Movies are meant to be experienced together.
I don't want to be an elitist designer. It's no fun just catering for a small group of people. It's against my principles.
Beautiful fabrics last; synthetics don't. Certain fabrics, such as linen or cotton, develop their own character over time.
It is actually nonsense to link menswear and travel. But it is important that you have a purpose when you design menswear.
I have my name down for the Apple Watch and yoga. I know it's a cliché but I need that antidote, it helps with everything.
Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well.
I still like the King's Road. It is very alive; it is a hustle of things from different countries and so on. It is lovely.
I didn't get fat even when I was pregnant. You have to work very hard at staying slim, and it's a bore. But it's worth it.
I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes.
Women are much more comfortable making their own style rules now. They want pieces that will make their busy lives easier.
I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.
With every year, I always try and learn something new and grow gracefully, and that's just kind of my rule for every year.
A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.
A lot of people have an opinion. If you listen to them too much, your work will get influenced, and you make no one happy.
When I create a collection, I approach it with a cinematic point of view-I am not designing clothes, I'm creating a world.
Anything I do, I do with my heart. This is why I sometimes get very upset or sometimes get very personal when I'm working.
I didn't know I was going to become a designer; I was going to become a successful person, but I really wanted to be free.
Design job fell on me. I didn't want to do it. It was an accident. For the first 10 years I said, "Tomorrow I'm stopping."
It's sad that the cell phone is replacing the watch as a time-telling device. I wear a vintage watch that's really skinny.
I'm extremely organized. The more things I have to work on and can bounce back and forth between, the more energized I am.
You have to be savvy and sharp and also straightforward with your customer. I think that authenticity is really important.
Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.
When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
I'm very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.
I want to achieve anti-fashion through fashion. That's why I'm always heading in my own direction, in parallel to fashion.
There's something very old-fashioned and luxurious to have a pair of pants and jacket made to your needs and measurements.
Fashion doesn't look good only on models, it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.
Fashion doesn't look good only on models; it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.
If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.
If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.
I grew up in the countryside and always used to wear my parents' Barbour jackets. It is a fantastic British heritage brand.
I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.
I'd really love to dress Lauren Bacall. She's incredibly interesting - a gorgeous, stylish woman with a strong personality.
Individual style is the correct balance of knowing who you are, what works fro you, and how to develop your own personality
When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.
Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.
My touchstone started out being - and is still - exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a single piece of cloth.
The combination of human skills with technology will always be at the root of any solution to the future of making clothes.