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I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, ‘This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.’ But then, that’s the goal: world domination through style.

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You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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Engagement Passionate World Yourself
When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
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Children Escape Fashion Happiness Influence Life Live Myself
If I’m sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don’t know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, ‘What should I do?’ So it’s meditative.
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Meditation Myself Stress Wound
The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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Earth Place Run World
If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
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Dog Myself Success Walk
It’s hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
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Appearance Fashion Hard Sex
Dressing well is a form of good manners.
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Appearance Clothes Fashion Goodness One Liner
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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Appearance Different Pride Wrong Yourself
Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you’ll project: ‘I look like a fool.’
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Clothes Fashion Fools Myself Uncomfortable Yourself
You can’t fake anything. If you’re honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.
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Energy Fake Feeling Honesty Love True Yourself
Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn’t feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.
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Audience Business Fashion Movie See Work
Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.
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Appearance Excellence Fashion Kind
I believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I never let that stop me.
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Believe Fear Myself Stop
Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Company Food People Yourself
I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person.
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Alone Job Lonely Myself Night People Person Personality Thinking
At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.
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Appearance Clothes Fashion Home Myself

I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, ‘This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.’ But then, that’s the goal: world domination through style.

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I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, ‘This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.’ But then, that’s the goal: world domination through style.

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