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Patrick Cox

Canadian Designer

Born: Mar 19, 1963

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I like to be playful; I want people to look at what I do and smile. Patrick Cox

Smile People Like Look Want Playful

It is all about quality of life and being proud of what I do. I need me to be me. Patrick Cox

Life Me Quality About Quality Of Life Proud Being Being Proud Need

Wannabe was so huge. So big. So unexpected. Patrick Cox

Big Huge Unexpected

Show some originality and never wear one designer head to toe. Patrick Cox

Wear Some Never Head Toe Show Originality Designer

After selling the business, and the Patrick Cox brand in 2007, I had a three-year non-compete, where I just spent a lot of time hanging all over the world on beaches and having fun. Patrick Cox

Time Business World Spent Three-Year Beaches Having Having Fun Had Over Lot Selling Brand Cox Hanging Just Where After Fun

I finished college by July 15th, 1985, and by October 1985, I had a little stand during the trade show which was London Fashion week at the time. My stand was tiny - just 6 square meters in total - and I had my 12 shoes that I designed while in college. Patrick Cox

If you use your own name as your business brand, keep in mind that if you lose that brand, you have lost your name. And that is a bit of a problem going forward in life. If you decide to make up a name, and if you have lost that name, then who cares. But when it is your name on the products, and you lose it, that is the game changer. Patrick Cox

Life You Game Business Problem Mind Lose Lost Own Cares Bit Name Make Make Up Up Brand Going Decide Then Use Your Products Who Forward Who Cares Keep

I lived in Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon when I was very young, until my mother divorced my father. Patrick Cox

Mother Father Young Divorced Until Cameroon Very Chad Lived Nigeria

Now, I'm older. I don't follow the vagaries of fashion: my look tends to be skinny flat-front trousers with a long-sleeve American Apparel T-shirt and a V-neck cashmere jumper - preferably Loro Piana. Patrick Cox

Fashion Older Follow Tends Trousers Look American Skinny Apparel Now

I have a pop sensibility, which I think comes from all those weekends spent in nightclubs. Patrick Cox

Think Spent Those Weekends Sensibility Which Pop Nightclubs

I love Italy, and that's where I make my own shoes. But the French really do respect designers. Italy is totally different; footwear is an industry. The shoes are all about craft and luxury. French shoes are more about straight lines, and they are way more geometric. Patrick Cox

Love Respect Luxury Shoes Own Way Totally About My Own More Footwear French Make Industry Geometric Lines Italy Craft Where Different Straight Really Designers

Archives can be inspiring but overwhelming. You have to forget them - especially when the whole world has been knocking them off. Everyone shops the same flea markets. Patrick Cox

You World Overwhelming Everyone Markets Has-Been Archives Inspiring Knocking Been Off Forget Same Shops Them Flea Flea Markets Whole

The word 'modern' is a cliche. Patrick Cox

Word Cliche Modern

Copying is a form of self-validation. Patrick Cox

Form Copying

I'm kind of the shoe guy. Patrick Cox

Kind Guy Shoe

I love talking in lira because, suddenly, everything is in billions. Patrick Cox

Love Everything Talking Because Billions Suddenly

By the time I came out of college, I was fabulous. Patrick Cox

Time College Out Fabulous Came By The Time

I was wondering if the best was behind me, had the high point of my career already happened. Then I saw what Manolo had done, and some of his best work happened after he turned 40. Patrick Cox

I am a magpie. My eye collects details. Patrick Cox

Eye Details Am

I was never a fashion snob. Patrick Cox

Fashion Never Snob

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