Category: designer
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Of course I make mistakes. I’m human. If I didn’t make mistakes, I’d never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.
Alexander McQueen
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I oftentimes say that I design my collections off my phone. I’m in a group chat with my team in Milan. I copy and paste. I draw. I look at trends. I don’t really have an assistant. It’s a modern way of working. I don’t know if it’s sustainable, but it’s how I do it.
Virgil Abloh
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I don’t want to be a celebrity designer. I want to keep my personal life out of it.
Virgil Abloh
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My dad is a Ghanaian immigrant, and he wanted a son who was an engineer.
Virgil Abloh
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You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible.
Colin Powell
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Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
Coco Chanel
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Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.
Colin Powell
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright