Ozwald Boateng Quotes

• A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.

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  Dream, Determination, Work

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• Style is an extension of yourself. My approach is to enhance the personality of the wearer, so he has his own voice

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  Voice, Personality, Style

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• If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.

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  Character, Way, Wells

  "Ozwald Boateng: does my head look big in this?". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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• You can't have style if you don't have substance.

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  Style, Substance, Ifs

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• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

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  Dark, Color, People

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• I have my fashion empire to build.

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  Fashion, Empires

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• Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

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  Emotional, People, Creative

  "A Conversation With Fashion Icon Ozwald Boateng on Style, Africa, and His New Film A Man’s Story". Interview with Govindini Murty, Jason Apuzzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

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  Yesterday, Why Not, Today

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• Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.

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  Designer, Shops, Knows

  "My life in shopping". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2008.

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• When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed. I mixed it, and they said you're too tailored for fashion and too fashion for tailoring. So I had to move the market. So that's what I did.

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  Fashion, Moving, Two

  "Ozwald Boateng: does my head look big in this?". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 09, 2012.

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• Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.

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  Important, Suits, T Shirt

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• My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.

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  Friday, Kids, Wife

  "My life in shopping". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2008.

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• I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.

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  Shapes, Inspired, Something New

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• I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back... I just don't understand it.

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  Clothes, Size, Streets

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• I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.

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  Two Friends, Important, Made

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• I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.

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  Jobs, Years, Interviews

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• I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.

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  Mother, Purple, Insane

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• Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

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  Tools, Firsts, Emotion

  "A Conversation With Fashion Icon Ozwald Boateng on Style, Africa, and His New Film A Man’s Story". Interview with Govindini Murty, Jason Apuzzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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• Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.

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  Fashion, Real, Two

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• You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.

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  Jobs, Views, Law

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• In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.

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  Kids, Lunch, Clothes

  "My life in shopping". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2008.

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• If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.

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  Escaping, Inspired, Film

  "A Conversation With Fashion Icon Ozwald Boateng on Style, Africa, and His New Film A Man’s Story". Interview with Govindini Murty, Jason Apuzzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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