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When you're doing something for the first time, you don't know it's going to work. You spend seven or eight years working on something, and then it's copied. I have to be honest: the first thing I can think, all those weekends that I could have at home with my family but didn't. I think it's theft, and it's lazy. Jonathan Ive

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I find that when I write, I need things to be quiet, but when I design, I can't bear it if it's quiet. Jonathan Ive

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I think it's important that we learn how to draw and to make something and to do it directly. To understand the properties you're working with by manipulating them and transforming them yourself. Jonathan Ive

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We won't do something different for different's sake. Designers cave in to marketing, to the corporate agenda, which is sort of, 'Oh, it looks like the last one; can't we make it look different?' Well no, there's no reason to. Jonathan Ive

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The decision to divorce myself from the business side unexpectedly blew up in my face. The creative freedom I thought I was getting turned out to be anything but. Joseph Abboud

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The 'National Suit Drive' collects gently used professional attire, but what it's really collecting is inspiration and a chance for men to feel empowered as they head into their next job interview. Joseph Abboud

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If I were in the middle of some kind of legal issue, I would get in my car and drive to Fenway. I'd get to the game early and sit in my seats and say, 'I'm home, I'm happy, and I love it here.' It was my therapy. Joseph Abboud

Not a huge fan of exaggerated, big silhouettes. Joseph Abboud

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I want to build a great raincoat. Joseph Abboud

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When I walked back into that factory for the first time after seven or eight years, it was a pretty emotional moment because all the people came up and embraced me. Joseph Abboud

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To me, there's nothing sexier than a guy in a well-tailored suit. Joseph Abboud

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What you see on the runway is designed and created in America. That's something we're very proud of. Joseph Abboud

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When you live in Paris, and fashion is such a point of pride for the French, it's always around and you're very much exposed to it from an early age. It was always something I knew about and really liked. Joseph Altuzarra

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic. Joseph Altuzarra

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It's important not to take all this fashion stuff too seriously, and I kind of love the idea of cheesiness. Joseph Altuzarra

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The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit. Joseph Altuzarra

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One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time thinking about what you're designing. Joseph Altuzarra

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I always listen to music while I draw. Joseph Altuzarra

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I don't think I'm an artist or that I'm doing anything superintellectual. What's important to me is to get a visceral reaction from people, for them to want that coat because they think it's beautiful. Joseph Altuzarra

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A lot of my pieces are about easy seductiveness and accessibility in terms of showing skin. Joseph Altuzarra

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I have a few customers who have two or three hundred bags. When you see a lady carrying a little dog bag or a little cat bag or an egg, it makes you happy. Judith Leiber

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