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I look much more civilized than I actually am.
Georgina Chapman
More
Civilized
Look
Am
Than
Much
Actually
I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.
Georgina Chapman
Fashion
Learning
About
Costume
Never
Had
Studying
Context
Real
Historical
Any
Intention
Being
Enjoyed
Designer
Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an image I've seen, or a book I am reading.
Georgina Chapman
Book
Sometimes
Will
Seen
Reading
Could
Am
Up
Researching
Things
Image
Start
Night
Sleep
I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.
Georgina Chapman
You
Mother
Amazing
Sense
Think
Able
Gives
Self
Empowering
Very
Career
I'm an enormous fan of Ron Howard. I mean, he's the most extraordinary director.
Georgina Chapman
Director
Enormous
Extraordinary
He
Most
Fan
Ron
Mean
The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.
Giambattista Valli
Fashion
Silhouette
Known
The Hardest Thing
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.
Giambattista Valli
Feathers
Made
Design
Else
All-Around
Something
Something Else
Bouquet
Around
Tightly
Waist
Going
Often
Held
Flowers
I don't shop. I buy things that inspire me, that give me emotion.
Giambattista Valli
Buy
Me
Inspire
Give
Give Me
Emotion
Shop
Things
The problem is that resuscitating old labels doesn't work anymore. I think it is very important to give hope to a new generation of designers, so that one day they really can put their own names out there.
Giambattista Valli
Work
Hope
Day
Generation
Problem
Old
Important
Own
Think
One Day
Out
Give
Put
New
Names
New Generation
Labels
Very
Anymore
Really
Designers
I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about.
Giambattista Valli
Work
Love
Architecture
Style
Meets
Everything
Way
Ancient
Kind
One Thing
Classic
About
Touch
Eclectic
Town
Like
Contemporary
Renaissance
Another
Go
Up
Itself
Bangs
Where
Rome
Against
Fascist
Why
Thing
Things
I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes.
Giambattista Valli
Woman
Clothes
Feel
Scissors
Want
Cut
Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.
Giambattista Valli
Beautiful
Knowledge
Respect
Master
Secret
Rules
About
Color
Had
Volume
Between
Schooling
Also
Just
Biggest
Codes
Technical
Technical Knowledge
My clothes are for the international jet set. They are very much for the red carpet.
Giambattista Valli
Clothes
Jet
Carpet
Red
Red Carpet
Very
Much
International
Set
The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.
Gianfranco Ferre
Design
Furniture
City
Dress
House
Same
Process
Room
Street
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.
Gianfranco Ferre
Myself
Design
Think
Paper
Architect
Learned
Lines
Flat
Forms
Express
Imagine
I want to see my niece and nephew grow up, to see their children... I get crazy at the idea that a time will come when I won't see Daniel and Allegra anymore.
Gianni Versace
Time
Crazy
Will
Nephew
Daniel
See
Idea
Come
Up
Get
Children
Want
Anymore
Grow
Grow Up
Niece
I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.
Gianni Versace
Love
Think
Typical
Clan
Married
About
Am
Italian
Getting
Getting Married
Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.
Gianni Versace
Love
Art
Chapel
Say
Those
Got
Real
Doing
Michelangelo
Sistine
Get
Artists
Paid
Who
Even
I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
Gianni Versace
Life
Today
Change
Try
Contrast
Full
Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.
Gianni Versace
Me
Came
Move
Designing
My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
Gianni Versace
Fashion
Easily
Dream
Composer
Always
Came
Very
For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.
Gianni Versace
Me
Light
Will
Pure
Big
Summer
Statement
Pink
Lots
Very
Blue
Then
Turquoise
Pale
Gray
I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.
Gianni Versace
Beautiful
Women
Clothes
Look
Make
Feminine
Want
Really
Help
The environment was so strong, so dramatic. Tragedy is all over Calabria; it's in the air. All this corresponds to my temperament.
Gianni Versace
Strong
Dramatic
Air
Temperament
Environment
Over
Tragedy
I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.
Gianni Versace
Care
Everywhere
License
Take
Take Care
Name
I want to be a designer for my time.
Gianni Versace
Time
My Time
Want
Designer
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