Guido Palau Quotes

#1. Fashion now is just so confusing. It doesn't feel as easy. Fashion seems to be in a much more eclectic place.

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#2. As the older ones, to understand that it is a different time, and young people look at fashion in a different way ... It's just different. If we harp on about it, they'll feel like we're just old fuddy-duddies, so I just kind of get on with it. I still feel I've got things to say.

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#3. Even though the industry is very big and there's lots of money, when it gets down to it, whether it's a photographer or a designer, as well as a stylist or makeup artist, you're really only working with maybe four or five people on a project. It's all quite small and intimate.

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#4. I'm very lucky that I've worked mainly with two amazing photographers in David Sims and Steven Meisel.

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#5. Fashion is emotional, and the way women look at it is emotional, so it's very important to try to connect with a woman's idea of how she might feel.

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#6. I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself.

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#7. To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort of add your thing.

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#8. It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people.

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#9. When you look back at your career, there are moments that are levels that you hit and you bounce off them.

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#10. I worked in salons, where you do learn the basic sort of thing. But I didn't know anything about the kinds of things I'm doing now. I learned how to put hot-rollers in.

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#11. When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down - but you also really don't want to let them down.

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#12. I'm not saying that everything I do is always tasteful - and maybe it's not always the normal idea of beauty - but hopefully it's always an empowering idea.

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#13. Beauty shouldn't be taken too seriously. Life is stressful enough! Hair should be creative and crazy.

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#14. The Brits always favor the underdog. There's an eccentricity to us, and I think you can see that through the fash- ion and the music and the way people look.

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#15. I was building my work, and it took me a long time. For a good five or six years I was just kind of bobbing around, doing everything and anything.

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#16. Fashion was a very insider industry then - it was very closed. So I didn't really know what I wanted to do.

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#17. Suddenly it was cool to have your hair lank ... It was a whole different way of looking at things, and it shook up the whole industry.

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#18. When you work with great people, you learn - about film, about clothing, about life, about sex.

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#19. I didn't know I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was always interested in fashion and imagery in a very naive way, but it was always an attraction, like glitter balls.

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#20. I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.

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#21. With Steven Meisel, I'd looked at his work from afar and always loved it, and when I started to work with him, I was blown away. He taught me so much about looking at women and looking at images.

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#22. I got into hairdressing and moved from Dorset to London, where I got an apprenticeship at Vidal Sassoon. This was around '83 or '84. I was working on South Molton Street, which was then the epicenter of all the shops. It was like a catwalk. So I did my apprenticeship there, but I wasn't successful.

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#23. I didn't do great in school. I didn't have many options. I mean, I'd like to have gone to art college, but I didn't have the grades. I didn't have any qualifications. But I had some friends who were hairdressers, so I just thought, Well, I'll have a go at it.

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#24. When I think of the people I've worked with, all of them have great passion, and the passion is what keeps people inspired.

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