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I've always loved the rustic, slightly worn style of Canvas and that element of an artisanal hand. It's so inherently chic.
I always loved clothes. I grew up in a blue-collar family, but I loved old movies and seeing all those dashing leading men.
For me, New York is comfortable, not strange. And I don't feel like a stranger. I have more friends in New York than Paris.
Women are more open to trying on a new personality every season; they can go from goth to bombshell to librarian, whatever.
Don't you think that a lot of designers get into fashion because they have something about themselves that they don't like?
I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.
I'm an advocate for buying few, but very good quality pieces of clothing, and if you do that you need to take care of them.
I think I was really naïve. I had no context to think about what I wanted to do. Each step was a next stage of exploration.
I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.
I don't know whether that comes from having a family - having something very important at home that needed to be protected.
When I finish with one thing very well, I start some other thing. I don't like to stop. I like to continually prove myself.
I've always found it interesting when I look at a woman, and she's beautiful and everything, but there's an inner strength.
The best thing you can do is go away from this saying, 'I can do this too,' because it's all possible and I'm living proof.
I don't like to use expensive materials. I take care to make costs reasonable. It's very similar to the way I make clothes.
People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.
I feel like a slave, and in a way like an artist, because I need to get inspiration everyday, from everything and everyone.
Whether you eat meat of not, you can be part of this decision to limit the meat industry destroying our planet's resources.
Dont wear dresses that are too tight. A size number is just a number. If the fit is comfortable, it will look more elegant.
This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I'm just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it.
A lot of people think a high armhole is restrictive, but it gives you total movement because it's cut right up to your arm.
A few times in my life I've had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think.
Fashion is about affordable luxury ... To succeed, designers need to be affordable, wearable, accessible, and aspirational.
Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management.
Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
I tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times.
Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.
To be honest, I knew nothing about fashion at all. When I decided to go to college, I just wanted to do something different.
Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away...His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion.
As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.
Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.
I feel at home most places I go, but my very top of the list are Bali, Italy, and London. Those are like second homes to me.
Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.
The reason I wanted to work with New Look was that they wanted to stick with one designer and do lots of collections a year.
My designs at Ungaro are a lot more sexual, in more of an obvious way: my personal designers are a little bit more sideways.
I've always liked historic jewellery that's got a kind of quirkiness or playfulness to it; I like that it's not too serious.
I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.
Fashion should go back to what it should be: closer to art, not totally commercial but have some artistic value at its core.
In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!
Of course I live in my time, and I'm really curious. But, at the same time, I don't think it has a direct impact on my work.
The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion.
When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses.
There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my designs.
In prêt-à-porter now we understandably need to make the collection satisfy the big market more, so couture is extra special.
With Spurr, I like to think we're a modern, European-influenced brand that does luxurious, handcrafted, and wearable pieces.
Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.
I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So I hid that.
When you think of fashion photography, it's a dream. It's like we all want to be those women. We want to wear those dresses.
My biggest surprises in my everyday job have to do with the challenges of trying to be slightly more responsible as a brand.
I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X.