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Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?
I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.
A fashion icon to me is somebody who has, the first person who struck you and introduced you to the world of fashion, and that person is my mom.
'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store.
We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
People on the outside and even some people in the fashion industry think that fashion people are maybe not the smartest. It's a constant battle.
Fashion is so mass-produced now; I hope there will come a refocus on how people see couture. And I would also hope for a new focus on the craft.
Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.
It's interesting for me to sell Comme des Garcons in places it's never been sold before to people who might not have heard of Comme des Garcons.
I think that clothes should be a shelter like a house or a rug. I think that there is that element of protection and a uniform can be just that.
The reason I quit fashion was that I had had enough of spending my time always being on my knees, making other people look amazing and fabulous.
You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.
Sometimes women entrepreneurs are their own challenge, [in terms of] believing in themselves. There is no need to apologise for being ambitious.
Simplicity survives the changes of fashion. Women of chic are wearing now dresses they bought from me in 1936. Fit the century, forget the year.
I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
The red carpet is very important. You have to be very careful to have the right person dressed in right way. For me, it has to be a perfect look.
I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.
There is nothing more thrilling than arriving in a new place on your own and feeling the sense of possibility and excitement that brings with it.
It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.
I sensed that women wanted to be a little different. My fluidity gave them a way of interpreting their bodies in a more personal, individual way.
I am neither a writer nor a theorist. For a person who creates things to utter too many words means to regulate himself - a frightening prospect.
I've always loved plastics and rubber, and it's such a specifically unique material that you have to have the manufacturing abilities to make it.
I always like to incorporate one or two chic accessories that contrast with the more gritty look of my daily uniform: a leather jacket and jeans.
My family was quite poor, and the NHS was recruiting people from abroad to do psychiatric nursing. It was the only hope I had to leave Hong Kong.
I believe that IT is the way forward. Every other industry utilises IT, and I feel that fashion needs to use it more extensively to move forward.
What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
I'm rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers.
I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.
Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.
I'm a great observer of delicate situations and women. I really like that bygone type of movement, and for a long time I had been looking for it.
Without any kind of real ego on my part, I just thought, I'm going to approach the people I admire and see if they want to do something together.
I always wanted to be a designer and always felt surprised as a child when my sister used to deliberate about whether to be a nurse or a teacher.
I defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn't been done before...The only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials
Things have to sell, of course, but if I don't want to put bags on the runway, we don't put bags on the runway. I have complete creative control.
Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the composer or the librettist.
I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.
I think you should suffer sometimes to be attractive and beautiful, so I cut the clothes very slim because I like to feel the clothes on my body.
In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up.
I would love to do special products for specific countries. As we go ahead and learn the territories, we're going to do exclusives for each area.
I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.
I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends.
As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.
There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.
I don't see boundaries between styles, such as modern or contemporary. I've collected each piece from a different experience or period of my life.
Grooming is the secret of real elegance. The best clothes, the most wonderful jewels, the most glamorous beauty don't count without good grooming.
Christina Hendricks is still one of my favorite people to dress because she has this old Hollywood, vintage quality to how she likes to get ready.
If you're short, don't wear extremely high heels. After a certain age, you shouldn't wear little girls' clothes. That's going against your nature.
It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.