Michael Kors Quotes
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Put on a trench, you're suddenly Audrey Hepburn walking along the Seine.
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You make sexiness strong by balancing it out: something familiar with something unfamiliar, something masculine with something feminine, something streamlined with something rococo. It's a Yin and Yang. Women are made of layers, your mood shifts, no one is neither one extreme nor the other.
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Every woman should own a shirtdress
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For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule.
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Women are much more comfortable making their own style rules now. They want pieces that will make their busy lives easier.
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People want to look taller and thinner. No one says, 'Ooh! Let me buy that dress because it makes me feel matronly!'
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Ultimately, clean lines have greater longevity, which women appreciate, and to which they can add their own personality
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I think the trick is, how do you spend time doing it but make it look like you haven't spent time doing it? Over the years you look at women like Lauren Hutton and everyone says: 'She just pulled her hair back and ran out of the door.' I've been in fittings with Lauren and she definitely thinks about it. She just knows how to make it look easy.
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I've always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman's outfit.
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It's an unbelievably tight race for hideous today.
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Great style means having a point of view, but evolving your look is even more important. Rushing to embrace every trend will leave you fashionable, but not stylish
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People shouldn't notice what you're wearing before they notice you. You want people to register you first. 'Oh, what a nice jacket' should be an afterthought if you're doing it right.
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Let's be honest - look what Hollywood at 18 is.
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North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.
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I mean you might have wanted Carrie Bradshaw, but to me she's like toddlers and tiaras gone berserk!
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My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.
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You need to be curious one way or another as a designer. Your eye has to stay curious. I look at people and think about how they live. I think about bodies.
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Fashion is not like the movie business, where you can have two great projects in a row and then say, "You know what? I'm going to take off eight months." What am I going to tell people? Wear last year's clothes?
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My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.
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The minute it gets to a runway, you're tempted to do some high jinks. I don't want to show something I won't produce. I want people to wear the clothes I show.
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I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.
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I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.
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In early days, I showed everything I made. There was no such thing as editing a collection. In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!
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Fashion is like food! Some people like sushi, others think hamburgers are divine! People like different things!
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I'm definitely curious. I love pop culture. I'm glued to it. I can watch garbage TV, but then I can also watch great theater.
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The best design teams are not people who are exactly the same...otherwise you're just sitting and telling, 'You're fabulous.' 'No, you're fabulous.'
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When I'm not working I'm a slug - a full slug. I am not good at the in-between. I'm either fever-pitched or want to just pass out on a beach with a really sleazy book and eat a cheeseburger.
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Travel is the ultimate inspiration.
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It's funny when I hear people complain - particularly about the most fabulous parts of being a designer, like when you're getting ready to work on a show. I don't even know that I'm tired. I could stay up for six days straight! No drugs, no coffee, no nothing. I'm just so excited.
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American women often fall into the trap of, "Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night." It's so old-fashioned. The French are not afraid of their luxury. Americans can be so puritanical and think, "That's my special-occasion bag." Whereas, for a French woman, it's her everyday bag.
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