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" I haven't made many wedding dresses. It's a dress very, very important for the girl; it's important to know the person, I believe, but at the same time it should be a shock to the person - the person should be shocked to be suddenly revealed. That's the work of a designer sometimes, to propose an ID of look. "

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" If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed. "

Olivier Theyskens

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Morning

Girl

" I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27. "

" Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing. "

" I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life. "

" What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality. "

" I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired. "

Olivier Theyskens

I Am

Inspired

" As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche. "

" I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it. "

" Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal. "

" I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time. "

" I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve. "

" When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it. "

" It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and think what's going to make them look dated, and I do the same with vintage. In vintage, you want something unique and different, but at the same time, something that doesn't make you look like you dress like a grandpa. "

" For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff. "

" When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer. "

" I could live naked... I love it. "

" We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am. "

" I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy. "

" When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined. "

" My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself. "

" I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls. "

" Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - the concept maybe - something that we don't see at the end on the catwalk, I think the way it was, the genesis in my mind, was probably artistic, an artistic approach. "

" When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be. "

Olivier Theyskens

Moment

Ugly

" Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money. "

" I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture. "

" Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric. "

" When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid. "

" Today there are more things you can wear for the same occasions. I still like this idea of the perfect suit, and I always love tailoring, but today you can have more things for this type of situation, clothes that have class and that are mixable, and that are super well cut. "

Olivier Theyskens

You

Today

" People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.' "

" My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked. "