Jil Sander Quotes

#1. What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.

Raf Simons

#2. In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was.

Raf Simons

#3. If the '80s were about Christian Lacroix ball gowns, the '90s give us wealthy women who either go to work or pretend to, and want office suits or slip dresses they can wear to dinner parties - ergo, the minimalism of Prada, Jil Sander, and others. But this is minimalism that comes at maximal prices.

Michael Shnayerson

#4. It is not easy to dress well.

Jil Sander

#5. I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.

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#6. Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.

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#7. Unable to help herself, she traced the tat, startled by the black and red ink mixed together. But it was the dragon design itself that made her skin prickle with awareness, appreciation. Soul-sucking desire.

Donna Grant

#8. We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce one another instead of colliding.

Brendan Gill

#9. I have a lot of fantasy.

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#10. I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don't feel that any more.

Helen Garner

#11. I feel that things happen for a reason and open up new opportunities.

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#12. One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.

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#13. You don't have to pay more to have a great form.

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#14. I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.

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#15. If I had the power, I would ban leggings.

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#16. Wright died in his room at home at 7 Hawthorn Street at 3:15 in the morning, Thursday, May 30, 1912. He was forty-five years old.

David McCullough

#17. Pamplona is changed, of course, but not as much as we are older. I found that if you took a drink that it got very much the same as it always was.

Ernest Hemingway,

#18. I feel very strongly that clothes that fit well make a person feel better. It's maybe half the value of the merchandise.

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#19. I am convinced that you don't need to spend a fortune to look like a million.

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#20. The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.

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#21. My approach has always been rather sensual.

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#22. Even as a child, I told my whole family how to improve their looks.

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#23. I'm not a gambler.

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#24. The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy.

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#25. In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.

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#26. We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.

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#27. The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that wet-nursed us all, moved me deeply.

Diane Ackerman

#28. Pimple young. Giggling young. Silly young and stupid as me.

Chuck Palahniuk

#29. I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

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#30. It is not just saying prayers that gets results, but it is spending time with the Father, learning His wisdom, drawing on His strength, being filled with His quietness, and basking in His love that bring results to our prayers. Praise the Lord!

Germaine Copeland

#31. Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.

Jose Andres

#32. They buried him in dirt that smelled like broken batteries, and crouched in a fiberglass shed while the acid rain poured down to dissolve his flesh and bleach his bones.

Dan Wells

#33. I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

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#34. The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying.

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#35. It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

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#36. I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself.

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#37. Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

Abdul Qadeer Khan

#38. Life is full of challenges and surprises.

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#39. If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

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