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" My fascination has been the space between cloth and the body, and using a two-dimensional element to clothe a three-dimensional form. "

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" Boys have been wearing skirts for some time now. My three assistants wear mini skirts. They come to work on their motorcycles wearing mini skirts. The French saw the idea on the streets and have done it in better fabrics, and now everyone says, 'Ah!' "

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" I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked. "

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" I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition. "

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" If Mr. Obama could walk across the Peace Bridge in Hiroshima - whose balustrades were designed by the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi as a reminder both of his ties to East and West and of what humans do to one another out of hatred - it would be both a real and a symbolic step toward creating a world that knows no fear of nuclear threat. "

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