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 didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27.

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  Advantage, Active, Staying

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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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• What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.

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  Creating, Creating Something, Futuristic

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

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• I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.

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  Vintage, Inspired, Designer

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• I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

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  School, Feelings, Losing

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• Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

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  Historical, Complicated, 19th Century

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.

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  Shoes, Would Be, Looks

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

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• When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

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  Boys, Moon, Doctors

  "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've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

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  Fashion, Children, Clothes

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• I love to be in New York. And I think anybody who's a designer, who says they're doing an urban collection, thinks about the streets of New York. I cannot do an urban collection thinking of Bangkok. Or Mexico. To me, it's totally instant, totally connected with what attracts me these days. But this resurgence of a modern, cool way of being dressed is something that stimulates me and is totally right for me. Even now I don't like to show something that is some futuristic utopia.

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  Thinking, Urban, Utopia

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.

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  Fashion, House, Age

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• As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.

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  Guy, Niche, Designer

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• I love to see what they [Michelle Obama and Kate Middleton] wear but I am not interested. It’s not natural. If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.

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  Girl, Morning, Thinking

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• When I started at [Nina] Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

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  Girl, Next, Carolina

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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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