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Don't wear dresses that are too tight. A size number is just a number. If the fit is comfortable, it will look more elegant.
Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.
So many women buy these boxy, shapeless jackets. I always tell them to buy a jacket one size too small to get the right fit.
If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.
Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.
Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.
I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.
I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.
I can think of a lot of women clients of mine who are well into their 50s or 60s who are still quintessentially very elegant.
I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way.
If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.
One of our greatest gifts is out intuition. It is a sixth sense we all have - we just need to learn to tap into and trust it.
Due to the hectic, non-stop nature of my work, I'm always using my BlackBerry to stay in touch with my studio, wherever I am.
Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction.
When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.
I'm definitely curious. I love pop culture. I'm glued to it. I can watch garbage TV, but then I can also watch great theater.
I know I'm too thin right now, so I wouldn't want any young girl looking at me and saying, 'That's what I want to look like.'
Upon graduation, in the yearbook I was voted "Most likely to succeed." which I know was credited to my artistic achievements.
I decided to work on things that obsess women because women can't resist things like lace, sequins, animal prints and python.
My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don't need 200 different beauties.
I always think about the streets because that's where I come from and that's where I'm going to die one day. That is my life.
No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.
I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.
If you’re constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.
I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
Fashion is instinctive and sensual. Learn to love what you wear. It should feel like eating chocolates...wi thout the calories
Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
My aim is to make you look the best you can and if that means a little bit of internal pulling and hoisting up, then so be it.
There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.
Usually I do a practice in the morning first and then meditate. I'm fortunate that I can do it in a car, in a bus, in a plane.
If you've chosen someone to be in your bridal party, she should be a good enough friend that she does not want to upstage you.
I prefer to look at a natural woman. A woman should be courageous to become older, not desperate to look younger than her age.
When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.
No, I have someone who comes to the house and washes it, puts in the dry shampoo, and takes care if it because I have no time.
The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.
It's what I say all the time to my girls in the office here: The more they dress for sex, the less they will have love or sex.
Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.
Time is my biggest luxury. Finding time to do things outside of fashion, which I think for a designer is incredibly important.
I can go all over the world with just three outfits: a blue blazer and gray flannel pants, a gray flannel suit, and black tie.
I've seen petite brides carry a ballgown, and I have also seen plus-size women carry a ballgown, though you wouldn't think so.
When I was far away, when I prayed every night, I felt I was very near with my heart, with my brain, to my sisters and my mom.
I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.
My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves.
Every job that you have might not be the perfect job, but you really take away different things, and you create relationships.
Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.
I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.
I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.
The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.
There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.
I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.