"My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided i would show them what a big mistake they had made." Roberto Cavalli
"It’s a lesson you learn working on 7th Avenue that if your collection doesn’t sell, the very next day you’re fired and you’re literally escorted out by a security guard. It teaches you that if it won’t sell, it just doesn’t work. So you learn to make it successful and then, once you’ve established that you’re doing something that works, you have the freedom to be more creative. Tom Ford
When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen. Tom Ford
"If you want to do something, if you want to figure something out, you can – if you’re really determined." Tom Ford
"I couldn’t have cared less about Gucci when I first went there – but soon after I arrived, I cared a lot. My ambition had been to go to Europe to become a globally marketable brand – at that point
Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan weren’t global brands, they were huge American brands and I wanted to be global, so I realised that I had to start in Europe. I thought I’d be at Gucci for about two years but it just became more and more interesting. The company was almost bankrupt and as a result
I just had this moment to create exactly what I wanted, like starting from scratch. It was in my contract that I wasn’t allowed to step out onto the runway at the end of a show but nobody was watching me – so we put on this show that I was really proud of and at the end I stepped out. And it was a big success." Tom Ford
I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity. Christian Audigier
I don't design clothes, I design dreams. Ralph Lauren
People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams. Ralph Lauren
I am constantly drawing inspiration from everything I see—the places I travel, the people I know and the movies I see. Ralph Lauren
I’ve never wanted to be in fashion. Because if you’re in fashion, you’re going to be out of fashion. Ralph Lauren
I don’t want to be this year’s fashion. I want to be forever. The kinds of clothes I design are the kinds of clothes that are timeless. I don’t want to be last year’s look. So in concept of my designing, I’m always very conscious of the timelessness and of not being trendy. Ralph Lauren
I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world. Donna Karan
“One of our greatest gifts is our intuition. It is a sixth sense we all have — we just need to learn to tap into and trust it.” Donna Karan
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