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Costume Designer Inspirational Quotes (1457)

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I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines
Christian Lacroix
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And I'm the first one to tell people to break the rules. But you can only break the rules once you know what the rules are. The other thing is, fashion is the last design discipline to actually have academic texts and historical analysis.
Tim Gunn
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I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up
Geoffrey Holder
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People put on certain clothes for certain reasons, I assume, when their closet is filled with clothes.
Tim Gunn
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I pretty much stay true to myself and try to find the good in people and not be snarky.
Tim Gunn
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I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.
Edith Head
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Pablo Picasso
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I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Pablo Picasso
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I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
Martha Graham
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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Pablo Picasso
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This is very much part of my style, I work a lot on the back ­ - I love the back of clothes for men. I love even T-shirts printed behind. I think, Why do you want to show only the front?
Riccardo Tisci
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Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Uniqlo as a company has always developed new fabrics and is always trying to be innovative. The design is simple, so the fabric is important.
Nicola Formichetti
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I was on a Japanese designers' pedestal - considered a maestro. My design was getting closer to a couturier's work, and I felt like I was missing something.
Yohji Yamamoto
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
Yves Saint Laurent
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My clothes don't make one a different person, just more of oneself.
Bibhu Mohapatra
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Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
Olivier Theyskens
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A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive.
Karl Lagerfeld
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In spite of the fact that everyone thinks I am very much a rottweiler - that i am very dark and everything - I have a side that is very romantic that i show to very few people.
Riccardo Tisci
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If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.
Gil Scott-Heron
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For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting.
Iris van Herpen
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Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.
John Galliano
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