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" It is interesting to see what other designers do, and not work in a vacuum. "
Sonia Rykiel
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" Wherever I go, I buy shoes. "
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" French women famously take care over their appearance, but this wasn't instilled in me as I grew up. I was taught that beauty comes from different places, from the inside and from the outside. "
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" I've never been interested in dressing one woman. What's interested me was to have a philosophy. It hasn't been important to put a woman in a blue dress. I wanted to dress women who wanted to look at themselves. To stand out. To be women who were not part of the crowd. A woman who fights and advances. "
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" I have no regrets in life, and you know what? If I could, I'd go back and do it all again. "
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