My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.
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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.
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I make things of my own that aren’t that glam, but I’m not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.
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The way a dancer can bring the crowd to its feet with a drawn-out, well-executed pirouette is the excitement I wanted to capture with this design.
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Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
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I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
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A bride should look at everything she possibly can…just so she can experiment and see what makes her really feel beautiful or glamorous or classical or whatever she desires to be on that particular day.
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I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don’t think that I was that literal.
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All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there’s nothing like wearing them. You buy them, you study them, and you start to understand how they’re crafted.
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In the dream world of Matisse and the gritty reality of American frontier, the diversity of women in our society offers the chance for greater exploration and even greater inspiration.
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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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