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Imagine walking into a grocery there is a jar sitting there with a lid on it saying it's not carbon. That is ridiculous. It's an empty jar.
Few people think about this or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.
I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.
Each of our collections is like a movie. We write the script, and this Sicilian woman who has traveled around the world plays the lead role.
When a man's suit fits, when the construction is beautiful, when the sewing and fabrics are there... in the end, you'll look the best in it.
I've never seen most of the fashion reality shows. The only one I've seen is 'Project Runway,' which is great, but I don't watch television.
If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.
Whether or not you like an object, it's the product of an individual person making decisions about things. That's what makes it interesting.
If you don't like carbon, if you want to be zero carbon, then you might as well shoot yourself, dry up and blow away because you are carbon.
The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.
The car industry has invested a lot in hybrid, but my opinion is electric cars will take over a lot of hybrids quicker than people think now.
Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.
You haven't seen me in my own ads. You don't see my logo all over my clothes. From the beginning, I wanted the clothes to stand on their own.
I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.
If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things.
Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.
I am not pushy. You want it, you buy it. Most people hit the customer over the head. But if you're too self-important, it's kind of repellent.
The idea of recklessly spending money - even though it sounds like it's lots of fun, it's fashion - isn't interesting to me. It is a business.
I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.
I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the wonderful time we had.
You can make people feel valued or cared for by design alone. It's not purely about money. It's about how we choose to value human experience.
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.
I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.
We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable, that leave you with the sense that that's the only possible solution that makes sense.
We all use something - you can't drill holes with your fingers. Whether it's a knife, a needle, or a machine, we all need the help of a device.
The best thing I ever bought is a vintage Oscar de la Renta short gingham dress that I wore to my rehearsal dinner the night before my wedding.
I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode.
Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.
In Tahoe, you want to be able check on the temperature of the house or turn it on before you get there. Because it's really cold in the winter.
Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.
Colors close together on the color wheel are analogous and will make a calm room. Colors that are farther apart are complementary and add drama.
I am a bull. I am Taurus. My will is awful. If I like something, there is nothing else. I was a pain in the neck. I still am a pain in the neck.
I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.
I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
I think that the art of marketing, the art of promotion and the art of storytelling is definitely elevated and we have to get better every year.
The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.'
A painting doesn't have to have a real usability other than you looking at it. Obviously, a car, an engine, or battery has to fit people's needs.
I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.
Now people don't know what it was in the Paris version, they put the skeleton at the end, not at the beginning. At least they've learn something!
In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things.
My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.
I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.