Olivier Theyskens Quotes

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• Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.

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  Eye, Light, Rose

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• The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

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  People, Design, Way

  Interview with Milena Canonero, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 19, 2011.

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• I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.

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  Thinking, Should Have, Conquer The World

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• When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.

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  Historical, Sublime, Disappointed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

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  Ideas, People, Accepted

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• I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

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  Inspiration, Mean, Ideas

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• I could live naked... I love it.

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  Naked

  "Olivier Theyskens On Creativity & Commerce, Obama & Middleton, And Being Naked". Interview with Blue Carreon, www.forbes.com. October 24, 2011.

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• I am more used to seeing my work like a big collection, and only part of it is being shown.

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  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.

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  Reality, Our World, Views

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• My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

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  Design, Intellectual, Intuition

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• I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.

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  Cities, Littles, Stuff

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• I would love, just once, to do costumes for a movie. I almost did some theater, but it is very different from what I am used to doing as a fashion designer.

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  Fashion, Different, Designer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.

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  Fashion, Thinking, Long

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• In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.

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  Fashion, Stores, Knows

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• I haven't made many wedding dresses. It's a dress very, very important for the girl; it's important to know the person, I believe, but at the same time it should be a shock to the person - the person should be shocked to be suddenly revealed. That's the work of a designer sometimes, to propose an ID of look.

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  Girl, Believe, Important

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• I don't like to go beyond modernity because you think girls might be like that in five years, but in five years what I see now is going to be old; we are always going to go somewhere else. You have to bring a few novelties within what will remain.

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  Girl, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store.

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  Fashion, Art, Thinking

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• With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

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  Thinking, Design, Modern

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• When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.

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  Princess, Kids, Thinking

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• The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence. I feel like people on the street today probably dress better than they did in the '50s.

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  People, Design, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic

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  Fashion, Art, Believe

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• When the economy changes, it's not like you want to start eating bad-tasting chocolate.

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  Chocolate, Want, Eating

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• Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again.

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  Light, Fur, Shapes

  "Big Bang Theory". www.elle.com. June 14, 2011.

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• People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.'

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  People, Sometimes, Call Me

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• I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.

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  New York, Home, Energy

  "For Olivier Theyskens, Black is Always the New Black". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. May 9, 2013.

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