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617 Designer Quotes

If you look at why people become wack as they get older, it's because they stop doing the things they did that were formative to their work. You can't mentally stay still. You can't not challenge yourself.

Because Become Challenge Did
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The amount of random conversations that lead to culture-shifting ideas is insane.

Amount Conversations Ideas Insane
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I think the reason why Off-White exists is to modernize fashion.

Exists Fashion I Think Reason
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I believe in the romantic interchange between intellectuals about fashion.

About Believe Between Fashion
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I think my original ambition was to be an artist.
Ambition Artist I Think Original
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My general premise is not about selling clothes. If that's your end goal, then all of a sudden everything looks the same, you know - you start designing by numbers.

About Clothes Designing End
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I like to look at fashion and relate it to the time when it was happening.

Fashion Happening Like Look
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As a young designer in tune with culture, I'm interested in the lifeline of trends.

Culture Designer Interested Lifeline
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I try to talk on the phone as little as possible.
Little Phone Possible Talk
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My lifestyle doesn't really account for movies. I can't even remember what I last saw.
Account Even Last Lifestyle
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I'm mostly into buying art from friends. I like to keep it vague - just whatever I find intriguing.

Art Buying Find Friends
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Collaboration is not a punchline... I only collaborate with the best in each category.

Best Category Collaborate Collaboration
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I've been DJing since I was in high school.

Been High High School School
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I don't sleep as much as normal people do.
Much Normal Normal People People
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My dad is a Ghanaian immigrant, and he wanted a son who was an engineer.

Dad Engineer He Immigrant
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My motivation is, in part, a bit of angst that comes from feeling like I don't belong, that our generation doesn't belong.

Angst Belong Bit Feeling
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From a very young age, as a teenager, I was into hip-hop and skateboarding and all those things that were akin to a kid in the '90s. All those things are what resulted in clothes.

Age Clothes Hip-Hop Kid
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My goal was to tell a dialogue between high fashion and streetwear. So, the name Off-White, in my mind, is between black and white. So, that middle ground is a mixture between both genres of fashion.

Between Black Black And White Both
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My graphic design skills are superior to a lot of other things I can do; I use it as a part of my tool kit.

Design Graphic Graphic Design I Can
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I'd do anything at the right time, and I would also do things at the wrong time if they felt right.

Also Anything Felt Right
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I always joke that, at any given time, I'm supposed to be at two other places.
Always Any Any Given Time Given
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My place in design history is to sort of interpret youth culture, and I think we've seen that done in fashion before - it's not a new concept - but it hasn't been done with the same vigour in a modern context.

Been Before Concept Context
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I'm constantly inspired by my friends and the people I surround myself with and the cities that I'm traveling to.

Cities Constantly Friends Inspired
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I started off as a kid who didn't care what my education was.
Care Education Kid Off
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I don't know where my parents got my name. I'm sure they saw it in a movie, maybe.

Got Know Maybe Movie
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

Approach Changed IPod Music
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Along Also Get However
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Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

Also Beautiful Beautiful Woman Beauty
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Could Discussion Fascist Follow
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I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

Eat Fish Like Meat
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

Exactly Exactly The Same Had Now
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I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

As Far As Because Care Concerned
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

Because Before Brought English
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

Boring Boring People Drank Drink
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

Artist Become Cartoon First
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I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Ask Go Instinct Marketing
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If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

Body Dangerous Something Sauce
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It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

About Because Big Clothes
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My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

Favorite Italian Japanese Kitchen
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

Asleep Bed Between Control
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

Am Designer Either European
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Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.
I Love Love Oh Shoes
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Some people would like me to be round again.

Again Like Me People
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

Because Believe Come Down
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Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

Could Few Lose Me
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
Fashion Life Music Part
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

Play Prefer Than Video
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

Bears Long Nice Them
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
Collection Doll Me More
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I never played with anything like toys.
Anything Like Never Played
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