Top 57 Mizrahi Quotes
#1. In my field, you can't really wear the same dress twice unless you want Isaac Mizrahi to scorn you on TV.
Mary Lambert
#2. My grandfather sold insurance to King Farouk of Egypt. And my savta's parents helped found the city of Tel Aviv in 1906. Our family name used to be Mizrahi, but they changed it to Mayron, which means 'happy water' in Hebrew.
Melanie Mayron
#3. I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.
Isaac Mizrahi
#4. I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.
Isaac Mizrahi
#5. This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.
Isaac Mizrahi
#7. There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.
Isaac Mizrahi
#8. Everyone asks, Will he make it, will she make it? You never make it.
Isaac Mizrahi
#9. Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on.
Isaac Mizrahi
#10. That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.
Isaac Mizrahi
#12. I equate peonies with love because they're the first blooms of summer.
Isaac Mizrahi
#13. Color is like food for the spirit - plus it's not addictive or fattening.
Isaac Mizrahi
#14. If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.
Isaac Mizrahi
#15. If you feel something in your heart, if you have a vision for it, then it's no longer a risk.
Isaac Mizrahi
#16. All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.
Isaac Mizrahi
#17. In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.
Isaac Mizrahi
#18. There are so many images out there, so many clothes out there, and the only ones that look interesting to me are the ones that look slightly mistaken.
Isaac Mizrahi
#19. I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.
Isaac Mizrahi
#20. The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be.
Isaac Mizrahi
#21. The Moon is such a planet I can't even stand it.
Isaac Mizrahi
#23. You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.
Isaac Mizrahi
#24. A bathroom should be sterile and beautiful and functional. It should exude Japanese-style purity.
Isaac Mizrahi
#25. People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.
Isaac Mizrahi
#27. I encourage you to stop saying, "I just want to look not so bad" and instead say, "I want to look fabulous."
Isaac Mizrahi
#28. You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.
Isaac Mizrahi
#29. Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.
Isaac Mizrahi
#30. The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing.
Isaac Mizrahi
#31. Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up.
Isaac Mizrahi
#32. Where is the real low thing? Where are the jelly shoes that you find that are sick because they're so great ... Everything has air quotes around it now.
Isaac Mizrahi
#33. Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.
Isaac Mizrahi
#34. I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.
Isaac Mizrahi
#35. How do I do it? I don't know how I wouldn't do it - that's the thing.
Isaac Mizrahi
#36. One must look at what is needed rather than what is wanted. This is the most critical point in making life easier and simpler - need versus want.
Glen Mizrahi
#39. The more relaxed you can get, the better you'll do.
Isaac Mizrahi
#40. What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!
Isaac Mizrahi
#41. A gift to mankind; the next Elizabeth Taylor in the making
Isaac Mizrahi
#42. It's no wonder we know how to dress; we've spent centuries in closets.
Isaac Mizrahi
#43. Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.
Isaac Mizrahi
#44. You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine.
Isaac Mizrahi
#46. You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.
Isaac Mizrahi
#47. You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.
Isaac Mizrahi
#48. Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.
Isaac Mizrahi
#49. When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything.
Isaac Mizrahi
#50. I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.
Isaac Mizrahi
#51. To me, you can't have style without being inspired. When I design a collection, I am inspired by so many things. The color of a flower. The shape of a butterly's wing. The juxtaposition of an old tenement building next to a shiny new skyscraper.
Isaac Mizrahi
#52. Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.
Isaac Mizrahi
#53. A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you.
Isaac Mizrahi
#54. Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
Isaac Mizrahi
#56. When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.
Isaac Mizrahi
#57. If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.
Isaac Mizrahi
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