It’s hard to balance everything. It’s always challenging. I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom. A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes. The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they’re saying. First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made a sweater because I wanted to have one that wasn’t like anyone else’s.
A woman has the age she deserves. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress. Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows – no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot – but it’s also a very toxic place to work. Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something. I don’t care about money. I really don’t care. I just want to do what I do.
Lace and light colours
I’m a fashion designer and people think, what do I know? It’s sometimes said that I’m rebellious and I do things to push people’s buttons, but I just like the challenge. I’m used to always deciding everything myself. It’s a blessing, but also a terrible defect. I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment. Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
What I hate is nasty, ugly people. Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections. The difference between style and fashion is quality.
I like to be real. I don’t like things to be staged or fussy. Design is a series of creative choices – it’s a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be. I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment. Men don’t want another man to look at their woman because they don’t know how to handle it. Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
Online media is increasingly influential in fashion. Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it. Age and size are only numbers. It’s the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference. Attitude is everything. Age and size are only numbers. It’s the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language. There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad.
Let’s not forget the macaroons
The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way. You’re only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure. Men don’t want another man to look at their woman because they don’t know how to handle it. War taught me that not everything is glamorous.
Online media is increasingly influential in fashion. Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it. Age and size are only numbers. It’s the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference. Attitude is everything. Age and size are only numbers. It’s the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.
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