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" Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride. "

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" 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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" I think people are sick of trends changing every six months - not because we're tired of them, but just for the sake of change. There is so much junk in the world: junk TV, junk movies, all those junk magazines with the same people on the cover. "

" I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well. "

" I went to a fashion show, and this silver-haired guy was staring at me with these piercing water-blue eyes. It scared me because I absolutely saw and knew my entire future. "

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

" 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. "

" When you are having fun and creating something you love, it shows in the product. So when a woman is sifting through a rack of clothes, somehow that piece of clothing that you had so much fun designing speaks to her; she responds to it and buys it. I believe you can actually transfer that energy to material things as you're creating them. "

" 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. "

" I have a driver in London because I am slightly dyslexic and cannot drive in the U.K.; after all, the traffic runs the opposite way to that in the United States. "

" A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach. "

" Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual. "

" Beyonce in real life is actually quite quiet and very sweet. "

" I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I prefer to eat at my desk. Actually, I wander around the design studio with a plate in my hand as I dine on, for example, salmon sashimi and a salad of tomatoes and mozzarella. I often have a bit of dark chocolate after lunch. "

" When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor. "

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

" I hate tricky facial hair. If your facial hair is too spotty in places, shave. Just forget about it. "

" My own skin-care ritual is quite simple and straightforward; I don't like a lot of fuss, surprisingly. My products are designed to make you look and feel better. I think there are a lot of men out there who want and need the same products. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't want to find myself designing for the press. "

" I am totally fearless! Well, of course, I'm not totally fearless. I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do. "

" It's like everything in your life is wonderful, but you have so much wonderful - this is all going to sound horrible - but when you have so much wonderful, it isn't wonderful because you don't actually have time to enjoy it. "

" I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today. "

" Fashion is harder than the film industry. You have to constantly be able to crank out hit after hit after hit on demand and on a very tight calendar. I've come back, I've lost it, I've come back again. It's really as good as your last collection. "

" The most important thing is to cleanse and moisturise your face twice a day. Use eye drops. If your eyes are white, you look healthy; you look fresh. Every man should have a magnifying mirror. If you look good magnified, you are set to go. "

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

" 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. "

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