I don’t wear a lot of color. In fact, I don’t actually like color on myself. I love color but it’s very challenging, it’s very powerful, it can overpower you. I think if my eyes were closed and someone put a red jacket on me, I would be able to feel that it was red. I don’t feel great in color.
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I’m very direct. I don’t have tantrums. I don’t yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Every season, really, has their own chemistry.
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I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.
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I suppose, yes, I’ve been guilty of provocation but it’s also just common sense marketing – put a bottle of scent in a woman’s cleavage, or between her thighs – and men will notice.
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What’s so wrong with vanity? It’s different from narcissism, you know? It’s not about admiring yourself-it’s about taking pride in your appearance.
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Glamour is something more than what you put on your body. It has to do with the way you carry yourself and the impact you have on others.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. English men make an effort. We’ve lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.
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In my adult life I’ve understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.
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It’s funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don’t think anyone wants to walk down the street and feel vulnerable. You want to walk down the street and feel like you’re in control.
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Dressing well is a form of good manners.
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I know one day I’ll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window’s gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow – I would not care. I feel like I’ve lived, I feel like I’ve had a great life.
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At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.
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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.
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I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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What is important is that we stop and realize, “Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that. But what is really important, what I’m really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.
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I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.
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