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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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Audience Capture Dance Design Excitement Fashion Magic
We got a lot of letters of people who didn’t like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking advantage of women in a sad situation – I never saw that. And I think that sometimes, you have to take a risk.
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Family Necessary People Risk Sad Thinking Woman Yourself
A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Artist Clothes Comfortable Fashion Herself Woman
Bridal is always about who you are as a person and as a woman and as a lover and as a mate. People always ask me how a woman can pick just one dress. And the funny thing is they always know.
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Clothes Fashion Funny Love Marriage Person Wife Woman
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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Clothes Design Fashion Myself Struggle Thinking Way
I’m only waiting for Lindsay Lohan’s fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
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Design Fashion Future Myself Reality Time Wait
Just because you’re from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn’t mean you don’t read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what’s going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.
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Books Internet Myself Reading Travel Woman World Worth
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It’s a metaphor for women’s lives, their creativity.
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Creativity Intellectual Live Marriage Woman
I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.
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Bride Feeling Marriage Money Taste
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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It’s a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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Exercise Work Yourself
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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Diversity Dream Exploration Greatness Inspiration Reality
When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
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Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride’s attendants.
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Attendant Play Respect Role
I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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