Hussein Chalayan Quotes

• I think the experience of feeling isolated, of not fitting in, creates the urge to explore.

  Hussein Chalayan

  Thinking, Feelings, Fitting

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• Technology is the only means through which you touch on new things.

  Hussein Chalayan

  Mean, Technology

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have an interest in architecture, although more theoretically than anything else. I think architecture tries to understand what the body wants to occupy, not the body itself.

  Hussein Chalayan

  Thinking, Trying, Architecture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My interest in fashion came from my interest in the body as a central cultural figure, not from admiring other designers - but of course I love Mason Martin Margiela, and I love Sybilla.

  Hussein Chalayan

  Fashion, Designer, Admiring

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wish we could edit our lives, be more selective with whom we spend time and what we spend our money on. To appreciate more what we all have - we appreciate things more when we lose them.

  Hussein Chalayan

  Appreciate, Wish, Spend Time

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's not always important to do a "show," but a live element always works better for me, unless I am making a film that goes beyond the clothes.

  Hussein Chalayan

  Important, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

  Hussein Chalayan

  Creative, Parent, Architecture

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• My furniture is banal and my house is pretty empty. The hardest thing to find is a sofa that is comfortable and looks good. The ones I like are never comfortable.

  Hussein Chalayan

  House, Empty

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• London scene consists of mostly foreigners. We see ourselves as British in many ways, but not English.

  Hussein Chalayan

  Scene

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Istanbul is one of the most incredible cities in the world, and a must - see as much as London, Paris, or New York. It's the past, present, and future, and a city where you never know what will happen from one minute to the next. It's also a melting pot of so many cultures from that region which is so often homogenized by the nation-state.

  Hussein Chalayan

  Past, Culture, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I came to London when I was a year and a half for four years. Since then I have been back and forth. I do mostly feel like a Londoner: I enjoy the Angle-Saxon acceptance of difference and I feel it's more of an integrated society than most places. But this is in London, not the rest of the UK.

  Hussein Chalayan

  Acceptance, Enjoy, Integrated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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