Top 28 Ozwald Boateng Quotes
#1. Style is an extension of yourself. My approach is to enhance the personality of the wearer, so he has his own voice
Ozwald Boateng
#3. 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.
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#4. Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
Ozwald Boateng
#5. Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
Cyril Cusack
#6. Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future ...
Bayard Taylor
#7. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#10. Every mother has the miraculous ability of momentary blindness.
Ania Ahlborn
#11. He began to walk slowly around me, as a man in a museum might circle a statue.
J. Kenner
#12. 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.
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#14. Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.
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#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Sometimes I enjoy talking, but when it's like people are trying to find something out about me, I don't.
Cameron Diaz
#18. 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.
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#19. My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
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#20. 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.
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#21. When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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#22. Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
Ozwald Boateng
#23. 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.
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#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.
Patty Duke
#27. 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
#28. In the wilderness you learn how to overcome your greatest enemy: yourself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
