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Nina Garcia Fashion Journalist, Author
Fashion

"I grew up with a fashion-obsessed mother and an older sister, so there was a lot of fashion in my house. The first thing I remember owning was a Pierre Cardin jumpsuit when I was 9 or 10; of course I didn't actually buy it, but I fell in love with it."

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Coco Chanel Fashion Designer
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"I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow."

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Tom Ford Fashion Designer
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"But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important."

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Tom Ford Fashion Designer
Fashion

"We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?"

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Sofia Coppola Filmmaker
Fashion

"You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion....But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity."

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated."

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Emma Watson Actress, Activist
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"I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I'm quite proud that I've had fun with fashion and don't always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else."

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