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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
Ferdinand Porsche
Fail
Himself
Does
Times
Then
Challenged
A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.
Ferdinand Porsche
Needs
Pure
Harmonious
Through
Form
Decoration
Should
Product
Elevated
Good design should be honest.
Ferdinand Porsche
Good
Design
Should
Honest
To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.
Filippo Brunelleschi
Fruit
Too Much
Disclose
Same Thing
Too
Give
Inventions
Up
Same
Achievements
Ingenuity
Much
Thing
We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.
Filippo Brunelleschi
Work
Art
Ocean
Waters
Secrets
Must
Compose
Deliberate
Construct
Council
River
Devices
Masters
Experts
Show
Mechanical
Works
Flowing
Needed
When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.
Francesca Lo Schiavo
Work
Together
Interior
Met
Design
Dante
Tried
Something
Movies
Worked
Much
Enjoyed
There is no difficult moment working together because when we start a new project, Dante starts to make all the sketches and I can see the vision of the movie and then I start my job.
Francesca Lo Schiavo
Working Together
Together
Vision
Job
Difficult
Starts
Project
Dante
See
New
Make
Because
Movie
Sketches
Then
Working
Moment
Start
Difficult Moment
I drape a lot. I cut. I have to touch. For me, it's almost impossible to start without that.
Francisco Costa
Me
Impossible
Drape
Touch
Almost
Without
Lot
Cut
Start
I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.
Francisco Costa
You
Hate
Sit
Corner
About
Something
Feel
Leads
House
Comfortable
Sound
Esoteric
Just
Where
Chair
Right after high school, I moved to Rio and took classes to become a technician for a manufacturing factory where you had to figure out how to produce 3,000 pairs of jeans. But in Rio, I was by myself, which was very liberating, being so young. I got to do my own thing.
Francisco Costa
Myself
You
School
Become
Own
Young
Took
Liberating
Out
High
Rio
Classes
High School
My Own
Factory
Had
Got
How
Very
Moved
Being
Where
After
Which
Produce
Figure
Manufacturing
Jeans
Pairs
Technician
Right
Thing
My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.
Francisco Costa
Fashion
Parents
Factory
Had
Industry
Textile
Linked
Fashion Industry
My mom, she was unbelievable. She ran the whole town. She was like the mayor. There would be 15 people eating at our lunch table. She'd drag people from the street.
Francisco Costa
Mom
People
Lunch
Our
Ran
Would
Would-Be
Table
Unbelievable
Eating
Town
Like
She
Mayor
Whole
Street
Drag
I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.
Francisco Costa
Fashion
Though
Know
Involved
Being
Wanted
Meant
Designer
I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise, it's just not fashion.
Francisco Costa
Hope
Fashion
Needs
Woman
Otherwise
Bit
Feels
She
Practicality
Just
Little
Little Bit
Fantasy
Average
I just hate people who are lazy. To be on my team, you have to have energy and a sense of wanting to learn. That really excites me.
Francisco Costa
Me
You
Hate
People
Sense
Energy
Lazy
Excites
Learn
Just
Wanting
Really
Team
Who
Rio was a period of my life, and then, poof, I'm gone. I was very young living here, just kind of floating. New York was a foundation for everything I do today. Rio was the bridge.
Francisco Costa
Life
Today
My Life
Young
Gone
Living
Everything
Kind
Rio
New
Period
Very
York
Just
New York
Just Kind
Then
Bridge
Floating
Foundation
Here
I think the women that we dress, the women who buy our clothes, they have a certain strength. It could be about the clothes, it could be about themselves. It's just attractive.
Francisco Costa
Buy
Strength
Women
Clothes
Think
Our
Dress
About
Could
Attractive
Just
Themselves
Certain
Who
I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.
Francisco Costa
Art
Architecture
Design
Inspired
Always
Influence
Process
Landscapes
Many
Things
My love of fashion stemmed from my mother's passion for it.
Francisco Costa
Love
Fashion
Mother
Passion
Stemmed
I love to garden and cook whenever I get the chance and escape anywhere that's peaceful and quiet. My philosophy on living well is to always stay positive in life.
Francisco Costa
Positive
Life
Love
Garden
Living
Philosophy
Stay
Well
Always
Escape
Quiet
Get
Whenever
Anywhere
Cook
Peaceful
Chance
You think 24-7 when you're a creative person. And I find pleasure in everything - if I'm in a flea market, I'm there on my downtime, but I'm also there searching for the collection. I don't separate the two.
Francisco Costa
You
Creative
Think
Market
Everything
Pleasure
Collection
Find
Also
Person
Flea
Separate
Creative Person
Searching
Downtime
Two
Good taste doesn't exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it.
Franco Moschino
Good
Good Taste
Our
Proud
Exist
Taste
The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest way to make money was to use art for some other reason. One of the easiest and most interesting from an economic point of view was fashion. Fashion pays.
Franco Moschino
Art
Fashion
Money
Job
Difficult
Other
Way
Easiest
Easiest Way
Some
Economic
Point
Point Of View
Most
Make
Because
Making
Making Money
Interesting
View
Use
Reason
Pays
Painter
Started
Tesla is changing the paradigm. We're going to turn the world on its ear and create high demand through design.
Franz von Holzhausen
World
Design
Changing
Paradigm
High
Through
Demand
Tesla
Going
Turn
Create
Ear
People want to feel good about the choices they make. They want to know they're choosing material that's not going to harm the environment.
Franz von Holzhausen
Good
Feel Good
People
About
Environment
Feel
Know
Make
Material
Going
Want
Choices
Choosing
Harm
I don't understand how I can pay $299 for iPhone and then get in my car and still have to turn knobs.
Franz von Holzhausen
Car
Pay
Understand
How
Still
iPhone
Get
Turn
Then
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