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" As someone who started a company with an idea of creating a luxury brand with a soul, I needed to learn more about how I effect change. "
Prabal Gurung
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" My goal is: I'm not trying to be snobby, but my clothes are not for everyone, not for every Hollywood celebrity. There is a designer for everyone, and a celebrity for every designer. "
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" For my first big Fashion Week event, the factory wouldn't give me my clothes because I didn't have the $25,000 it cost to make them. "
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" The punk era, at its best, celebrated questioning the norm and the promotion of originality. Both concepts have always resonated with me. "
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" I really feel blessed that I'm able to do what I love and make a living at it and have people come and see it. I mean, what an incredibly blessed life! "
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" I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But I'm a glass half-full kind of guy. "
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" There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my designs. "
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" Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone. "
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" Change doesn't come from staying in your safe space. "
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" I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff. "
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" I decided if it was going to be a mistake to come to New York and try and make a career in fashion, then it was going to be my mistake... But the American dream is real. I'm living it. "
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" I went home and went to Mustang, in the mountains between Nepal and China, and was so inspired by the landscape and the rich culture and heritage. I loved the textures, the draping, the palette. Everything was so beautiful. This little kingdom wasn't open to the world until 1991. "
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" I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests. "
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" I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed. "
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" You want to question what is important and why is it important. I don't have all the answers, but I'm very curious to know and learn. "
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" I think I'm just really in love with women, and I love to see them looking incredibly, truly beautiful. I think every time a woman wears one of my dresses, you know, in a matter of speaking, I'm having a little love affair with her! "
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" To me, beauty is inclusion - every size, every color - that's the world I live in. "
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" I know what it's like to turn the page of a magazine and not see anyone like you. It takes a lot, a lot, a lot of talking to yourself to confirm your self-worth. "
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" I've always been interested in a femininity with a bite. I always think a little bit of a kick is great. "
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" When I came to America, there were two kinds of women: women who looked serious and who didn't wear color and print, and women who looked girly and feminine and like second wives. "
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" I was in Nepal and I had watched Oprah Winfrey's show. I had no idea, as a kid in Nepal, who she was, but I remember watching an episode of hers about living your dreams. "
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" Fashion has always had the ability to affect lives, to touch people. But for the longest period of time, we've said, 'Oh, we're just pages of a magazine; that's what we all look at.' It's more than that. "
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" I've always found it interesting when I look at a woman, and she's beautiful and everything, but there's an inner strength. "
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" There's such a feeling of satisfaction when something you imagined turned into something real. "
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" I was definitely considered different growing up. I learned that being me was all right because my family celebrated those differences. "
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