Boateng Quotes

#1. Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

Ozwald Boateng

#2. I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.

Ozwald Boateng

#3. My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.

Ozwald Boateng

#4. The future of Africa lies not with external actors but within Africa itself. The future of Africa lies here in Africa.

Paul Boateng

#5. Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

Ozwald Boateng

#6. When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

Ozwald Boateng

#7. Not. Pound him because he cannot respond from jail, and why would he bother anyway? Do it Monday and make sure Dumas Lee and every other reporter with even

John Grisham

#8. Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.

Ozwald Boateng

#9. When Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he famously replied that "it would be a very good idea.

Yanis Varoufakis

#10. God's greatest gift to man
In all the bounty He was moved to make
Throughout creation-the one gift the most
Close to his goodness and the one He calls
Most precious-is free will.

Dante Alighieri

#11. If you give what can be takes, you are not really giving.
Take what you are given, not what you want to be given.
Take what is given:
Give what cannot be taken.

Idries Shah

#12. Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me.

George Boateng

#13. You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.

Ozwald Boateng

#14. The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.

Mitch Daniels

#15. I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back ... I just don't understand it.

Ozwald Boateng

#16. Every case is different, and how we deal with every case is different. But what's the same is we work it, we do the job, and we take the risks the job demands. That's it.

J.D. Robb

#17. Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.

Ozwald Boateng

#18. I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how to be violent and that's much more dangerous in a way.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#19. We covered so much ground on Thursday night that it took us half and hour. I'm not trying to look for excuses but that's the reality.

George Boateng

#20. You can't have style if you don't have substance.

Ozwald Boateng

#21. I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.

Ozwald Boateng

#22. Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

Ozwald Boateng

#23. all he had to do was be himself, and Adrian took care of the rest.

Annabeth Albert

#24. Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy,
Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey.

Action Bronson

#25. I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.

Ozwald Boateng

#26. I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.

Ozwald Boateng

#27. To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.

Gary Steiner

#28. Style is an extension of yourself. My approach is to enhance the personality of the wearer, so he has his own voice

Ozwald Boateng

#29. When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed. I mixed it, and they said you're too tailored for fashion and too fashion for tailoring. So I had to move the market. So that's what I did.

Ozwald Boateng

#30. I have my fashion empire to build.

Ozwald Boateng

#31. Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. 'Real hurts.'

Kristin Hannah

#32. Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.

Ozwald Boateng

#33. If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.

Ozwald Boateng

#34. In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.

Ozwald Boateng

#35. It's a good thing to be laughed at. It's better than to be ignored.

Harold Macmillan

#36. Nothing you will object to, James replied in a soothing tone. I cannot think how he came to imagine that he would know what I might or might not object to.

Patricia C. Wrede