"You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative."
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"The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman."
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"The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children."
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"I'm a working-class person, working with class."
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"You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future."
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"Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women--forget about that. Forget about that. It's a very bad way of thinking."
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"Work is making a living out of being bored."
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"Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards."
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"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."
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"I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door."
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"The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire."
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"Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs."
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"I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over."
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"Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability"
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"Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you."
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"EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST."
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"Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!"
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"Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation."
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"When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude."
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"I hate birthdays, .. It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I don't celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow."
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