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Clothing Designer Inspirational Quotes (27)

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Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.
Joseph Altuzarra
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After marriage, all things change. And one of them better be you.
Elizabeth Hawes
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The French legend is a very simple one. All really beautiful clothes are designed in the houses of the French couturiers and all women want those clothes.
Elizabeth Hawes
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being chic not only takes a great deal of money but an enormous amount of time. It practically precludes everything else, even being on charity committees. Half of one's time goes getting chic, the other half being seen that way.
Elizabeth Hawes
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If you feel like getting a divorce, you are no exception to the general rule.
Elizabeth Hawes
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All changes in clothes rise out of the lives of the people who wear them. The function of the designer is simply to see a little ahead of time what the people want, and to provide it. No designer can start anything really new and different unless there is a public all ready for it.
Elizabeth Hawes
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The process of education is not generally a process of teaching people to think and ask questions. It ... is mostly one of teaching the young what is and getting them into a mood where they will go on keeping it that way.
Elizabeth Hawes
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All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.
Elizabeth Hawes
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That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can feel very removed.
Joseph Altuzarra
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It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.
Elizabeth Hawes
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You can build a brand very fast now, especially with bloggers and how fast images can get out - the message just goes out faster and stronger than ever before.
Joseph Altuzarra
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Yesterday people were permitted to change things. They will be permitted to advocate changing them tomorrow. It is only dangerous to think of changing anything today.
Elizabeth Hawes
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Starting your own business and thinking about how you can grow something and fulfill both expectations and needs of your retailers and still stay exciting for the runway, you sort of become this left brain-right brain person pretty quickly.
Joseph Altuzarra
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I was not a very popular kid in high school, and I had this idea that the way that I dressed would change how liked I was. It was that kind of Pygmalion story. I think, ultimately that's probably why I became interested in fashion, its transformative power, and how it can change your identity.
Joseph Altuzarra
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One of the most fascinating things about the world of fashion is that practically no one knows who inhabits it or why it exists. There are a few people who know how it works, but they won't tell.
Elizabeth Hawes
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I was also very lucky to be able to work with talented people while I was learning. I didn't actually go to fashion school. I worked with Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy which was a really pivotal experience for me. He taught me a lot about being faithful to your own voice and to really believe in your own voice and that's made a big difference.
Joseph Altuzarra
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In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.
Joseph Altuzarra
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I think women want to feel beautiful. They want to feel seductive.
Joseph Altuzarra
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It's important not to take all this fashion stuff too seriously, and I kind of love the idea of cheesiness.
Joseph Altuzarra
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There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French.
Elizabeth Hawes
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I think designers are starting to realize that we're all in the same industry. We're making clothes - we aren't saving the world. I'm not saying that designers aren't artists, but at the end of the day, we make clothes.
Joseph Altuzarra
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If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception.
Elizabeth Hawes
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I try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once.
Joseph Altuzarra
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Is woman a lost sex? If so, is she the only lost sex? Has woman alone conceived all the vipers in our land?
Elizabeth Hawes
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