Isaac Mizrahi Quotes
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In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.
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You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy
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You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine
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Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.
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The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be
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If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.
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How do I do it? I don't know how I wouldn't do it-that's the thing.
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The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing
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I encourage you to stop saying, "I just want to look not so bad" and instead say, "I want to look fabulous."
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Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on
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There are so many images out there, so many clothes out there, and the only ones that look interesting to me are the ones that look slightly mistaken.
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I equate peonies with love because they're the first blooms of summer.
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A bathroom should be sterile and beautiful and functional. It should exude Japanese-style purity.
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I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.
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If you feel something in your heart, if you have a vision for it, then it's no longer a risk.
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I have a lot of obligations.
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Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.
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I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.
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Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.
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A gift to mankind; the next Elizabeth Taylor in the making
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Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up
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Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
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This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.
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There is one common philosophy, one thing that you can do no matter who you are or what you look like: You can actually get passionate instead of remaining cool or instead of trying to look like everybody else. You can - you must - immerse yourself passionately in who you are if you want to have style.
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Where is the real low thing? Where are the jelly shoes that you find that are sick because they’re so great…Everything has air quotes around it now.
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The moon is such a planet, I can’t even stand it. What else is it if it’s not a planet?
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I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.
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I'm so involved in melancholy.
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You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.
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People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.
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