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In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
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'In days gone by, those of noble birth were a given. Nowadays, greatness is earned.'
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Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.
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That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
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Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.
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I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
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Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.
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Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing.
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Do not go into trends. Do not allow fashion take you over, choose who you want to be and what do you want to show with your clothes and lifestyle.
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I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.
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Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.
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It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.
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I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.
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I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.
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Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.
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I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.
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I never fall down. I always fight.
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For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.
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I want to be the joy to people through my work.
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My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
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Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.
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I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.
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The first thing I really enjoy is to make love, after comes the music.
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I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
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I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.
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My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.
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Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.
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I love very much the night after every fashion show when I have all those invitations to parties and I stay quiet at home by myself.
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You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts.
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I watch women continuously. I want them to look beautiful, I am not interested in making them funny, but just beautiful. They have got to look marvelous to please their own men.
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In those days, when I was a little kid, I met the truer more authentic people of my life. The men were so pure, strong, honest, and faithful unto death - with an incredible sense of respect for a boss.
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Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.
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I liked women as a shape to dress.
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I hate the traffic over there. Why don't they start to build moving pathways to replace all the streets? I see New York in a very futuristic way, but they must do something new.
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I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.
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I want always to be positive.
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Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.
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I want to be a designer for my time.
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I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do.
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