"all changes in clothes rise out of the lives of the people who wear them. The function of the designer is simply to see a little ahead of time what the people want, and to provide it. No designer can start anything really new and different unless there is a public all ready for it ..."

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Source : Elizabeth Hawes (1939). “Men can take it”

Elizabeth Hawes

#Fashion Quotes #Clothes Quotes #People Quotes

“Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.”

Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.126, Penguin
“All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.”
“I came to realize,people who had Chinese accents will continue to have Chinese accents in America are treated as being stupid or not as intelligent as an English speaker who is fluent with an American accent - I came to realize why. But it's always fascinated me how quickly you can change where you stand with another human being just based on how you speak.”
“I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.”

Source : "Tea Time". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. March 31, 2010.
“I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.”
“Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.”
“We could have chopped down the sycamore with this...”
“It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free.”

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