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You need, in your closet, clothes that will - that you can use in many different ways. Clothes that make you fell comfortable, clothes that make you feel 'you.'
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There are emerging countries. I mean, there are countries, you know, China, India, and Brazil, and all of these countries that are emerging. They are building homes. They are building - so there is a new lifestyle.
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I used the aspects of being a woman to my advantage, but I worked for myself, not a big corporation, so I was lucky to have the freedom to behave however I liked.
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I don't think we should always look at the Chinese like they're taking jobs. They are also bring us more and more jobs. Because, they are the biggest growing consumer. I think what is going on in China is exciting.
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I believe that all women should have children. I think women are made to have children and to be mothers. I also think women have to have an identity outside the home.
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The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.
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I was lucky enough to have it all. To be successful in business, to have children, to raise them on my own, and to travel and live my life. It was a lot of work, but it's a privilege to have been able to do it.
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I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much.
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Fashion is mysterious, as a rule. Why are blue jeans a classic? You just hit on something that happens to be timeless and right.
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I was a very young girl and I got into fashion very much by accident, wanting to be independent. What was wonderful was that while I was learning and discovering - learning about the work, discovering myself as a woman - I was allowing other women to feel the same way.
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I have always been attracted to clothes designed by women. Coco Chanel, Vionnet, Norma Kamali, Donna Karan. They have a little more - how do I put it? - understanding.
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As the president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, I represent the designers. And while we can by no means take the blame for eating disorders, we can play our part in addressing this important issue.
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We need to encourage designers and agencies to be responsible. We need to make sure everyone is sensitive to the issues. But to calculate the girls' body mass - I personally think it is demeaning.
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I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.
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When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.
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I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.
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I am a fast dresser, 30 minutes max with hair and makeup. I don't have a uniform, but I like to be comfortable.
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The fashion industry has a responsibility to represent a healthy image of women, but to start weighing them and putting them against a wall and making them feel like animals? No.
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I obviously don't feel under pressure to look young, because I have had no Botox or surgery. I don't judge people who choose to have it, but I don't want to erase who I am.
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I'm very good at breaking up with people. Very good. It requires a lot of skill, but what you do is you tell them the truth of why you are breaking up with them, and after that, you somehow compensate with other things. If you have loved someone, I think that somehow they should always be a part of your life. I really do.
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What's important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring.
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I was lucky because I got so successful so early, and when you get successful early, then you can afford to be a little bit humble.
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I've been working seriously in giving fashion a place that it deserves.
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The iPad! What is better designed than that? I read magazines on it, I play Scrabble. I use it for everything.
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I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.
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Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.
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My favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection.
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I'm all about empowering women. And by lining them up against the wall and weighing them, surely you are making them feel more like meat than ever - even if it's little meat, if you know what I mean.
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Women inspire me... so I enjoy women's stories and biographies. I am interested in all women.
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I am almost a vegetarian, and I meditate, do yoga and love to hike.
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The most important thing is to be healthy, to drink a lot of water, to fight gravity as much as possible. I am one of the few people who decided I wasn't going to do any invasion with my face.
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I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.
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Women are strong. We can do it all. But not always at the same time.
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My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They're light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive.
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I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.
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My mother said that we're so lucky to be women. It's not that men are weak. Men are men. We're two completely different animals.
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I've always been inspired by women, and my mission was to inspire women. I always wanted to become a certain kind of woman, and I became that woman through fashion. It was a dialogue. I would see that the wrap dress made those women confident, and made them act with confidence.
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I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.
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I don't like to talk about my dreams. I like to make them happen. I prefer to talk about them when they're done.
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I was terrified the first time that I had a big problem in my business. I was obviously terrified when they diagnosed me with cancer in 1994. I was terrified when my son used to drive too fast. But I do believe in the fact that fear is not an option, so I always try to face it and not be afraid.
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A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.
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I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.
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