Raf B Quotes

#1. It felt wrong for me to stay totally connected to that very strict way of approaching the heritage - what it can be, what it cannot be. That was also the period where I really thought, "No, let's open it up."

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#2. My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

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#3. Becoming a fashion designer is agreeing with the fact that what you experience or what you see as free is also connected to a system. Does that mean giving up your freedom? I still don't know the answer. There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art.

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#4. Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor.

Bob Hoskins

#5. The future, for me, is romantic, I don't understand people who say the past is romantic. Romantic, for me, is something you don't know yet, something you can dream about, something unknown and mystical. That I find fascinating.

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#6. I don't see Dior as something that could become mine. I see it as a dialogue with the women who wear it. I want to stay connected to them rather than to an abstract brand.

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#7. I have so much respect for John [Galliano]s technical skill and the fantasy, its just something that I dont find relevant now, especially when it restricts a woman, because in every other area they have so much freedom.

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#8. We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.

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#9. I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.

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#10. I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn't allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn't let four people dressed in black stand together on the playground.

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#11. You don't like people?" Raf asked. "I don't like what people do to each other.

Matthew Reilly

#12. In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

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#13. I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.

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#14. I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

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#15. It would be nice to be a professional pilot. I'm an amateur pilot at the moment. I've got a lot of friends in the RAF and I don't think I've ever met a group of people who love their job as much as they do.

Martin Shaw

#16. Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.

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#17. My challenge is to find a beautiful balance: to make women beautiful, to make a woman dream to wear a beautiful outfit.

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#18. I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement.

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#19. The rejection of sabotage in the metropole, based on the argument that it would be better to take things over instead of destroying them, is based on the dictum: The people of the Third World should wait for their revolution until the masses in the metropole catch up.

Red Army Faction

#20. I spent my earliest years in Colwyn Bay in north Wales with my mother and grandmother, while my father was stationed with the RAF in India.

Terry Jones

#21. I've always seen myself as a small entity, and it will always stay like that. I'm not changing. But I think the big challenge for me taking on the Dior thing is to see how I can connect that to such a huge institution.

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#22. Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.

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#23. I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

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#24. As an industrial designer, you design the thing by yourself, and then it goes away from you, whereas fashion is in constant relation to the body and to psychology. It makes it more complicated, and it makes it more challenging.

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#25. They see in the political apathy of the proletariat only the apathy, not the protest against a system that has nothing to offer them.

Red Army Faction

#26. Dresden, which I am told presents no military or industrial targets whatsoever for the RAF.

Paul Russell

#27. You can instantly spot a Chanel woman, so I want to develop the Dior woman.

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#28. My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.

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#29. My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

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#30. I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

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