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“Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.”

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I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.

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Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

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Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.

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Design is an unknown.

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I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

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Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

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Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.

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I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desirable.

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I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships.

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The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

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The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.

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The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.

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