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I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.
I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology.
A lot of designers become hot, attend every party, and then you don't hear about them again.
Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.
The quest for simplicity has to pervade every part of the process. It really is fundamental.
It never ceases to amaze me what it takes to develop and bring to mass production a product.
Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)
I listen to a variety of music. I like everything from old Arabic music to Portuguese fados.
A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.
I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else.
I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats.
It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.
When everything is connected to everything else, for better or for worse, everything matters.
I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!'
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
I never liked my last name or my first name, but it's not as bad as Frigidaire, so it's fine.
I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.
There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.
I think the key is that you come out with products which are embracing and true to the brand.
The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable.
I love history. Everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.
A lot of my work is intelligent, a lot of the work is beautiful, but I make ugly things, too.
I may not have the stereotypical head for business, but I have feet that were made for heels.
I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement.
Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.
It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better.
I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.
Different' and 'new' is relatively easy. Doing something that's genuinely better is very hard.
I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.
I've been trying to get Mr. Finchem to lengthen 5 and 7 and 14 and 18 - and he's being a mule.
If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.
You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.
The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.
The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.
I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school.
It is extremely necessary to realize that the world doesn't only have one way of seeing things.
Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.
The goal of Apple is not to make money but to make really nice products, really great products.
Sometimes I shoot out of bed like it's a relay race, and I'm on the phone, leaving voice mails.
I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.
Besides almonds or granola, I don't eat a lot during the day - juicing is what gives me energy.
When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish.
People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
I've always believed that a beautiful shoe is useless unless it feels as wonderful as it looks.
Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!
The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.
I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.