"You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition."
"Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not."
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Source: 1979 In the NewYork Times,13 May.
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