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" Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially. "

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" As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best. "

" From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important. "

" I told myself that I would not come back to women's fashion until I felt I had something new to say. I feel that fashion has become too serious and that the actual customer's needs have not really been addressed. Fashion needs to make one happy. It is a luxury and should enhance one's quality of life. "

" If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment. "

" I couldn't have cared less about Gucci when I first went there - but soon after I arrived, I cared a lot. "

" This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I'm just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it. "

" I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, 'This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.' But then, that's the goal: world domination through style. "

" A lot of the things I did - it's not going to sound anything but egotistical - if I'm lucky and I did the right thing, they will be at Zara way before I can get them in the store, and I don't like that. "

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" My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves. "

" I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes. "

" Do you know how rare it is in parts of America to actually see 'an outfit'? France? I don't want to be anti-French, but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets. "

" I'm a very serious person. "

" You never make it, especially in this industry where you constantly churn out stuff, things. You never finish. "

" Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life. "

" I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so. "

" Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have. "

" When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses. "

" I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to. "

" The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar. "

" Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth. "

" Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him. "

" What is important is that we stop and realize, 'Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that.' But what is really important, what I'm really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people. "

" It's really never fair to judge people because none of us know what's going on inside anyone else's head. "

" The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that. "

" When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen. "

" As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded. "

" Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature. "

" I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends. "

" I'm actually very introverted. I'm very shy. I'm very emotional. "

" We've become a little spoiled with menswear in particular because, of course, we've come off a period in the '70s and '80s when Armani, which is very soft, dominated menswear. And we've become obsessed with comfort. I actually don't like that. "