Tadashi Shoji Quotes

#1. Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite.

Tadashi Shoji

#2. But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.

Christian Lacroix

#3. There's almost a T-shirt feeling to wearing my evening dresses.

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#4. So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it.

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#5. Am I famous in Japan? I don't know, and I don't really think of myself in that way.

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#6. Not. Your. Fault.
I nodded again, holding onto his words like they were redemption.

Tammara Webber

#7. When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

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#8. As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.

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#9. Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute zero temperature or to get perfect vacuum. Luckily, mathematics is a fairyland where ideal and fictional objects are possible.

Doron Zeilberger

#10. I design to make women feel confident and beautiful.

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#11. Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful.

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#12. So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower and it knows it

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#13. Time flies so quick. I remember my second year in business when Bullocks Wilshire did a whole window of my white dresses. I was so excited, I went there at night and took pictures.

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#14. I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.

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#15. Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.

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#16. In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?

Rainer Maria Rilke

#17. Complementary or alternative medicine is really just unproven medicine. That's not an unfair criticism; that's just what it is. When an alternative medicine is openly put to the test and confirmed as useful by the scientific process, then it becomes just plain medicine.

Guy P. Harrison

#18. I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.

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#19. Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate

Gordon Allport

#20. The ultimate is finding a place where you have no inhibitions, nothing to hide, where you can learn with one another.

Jennifer Aniston

#21. Don't wear dresses that are too tight. A size number is just a number. If the fit is comfortable, it will look more elegant.

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#22. My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.

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#23. It's a Japanese way of thinking, that I give value for my merchandise. So I don't want to sell unnecessarily expensive dresses and make just 10 or 20 and then feel satisfied. I want to design for real women who can afford my dresses.

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#24. Try claiming God's blessings instead of merely longing for them.

Henry Jacobsen

#25. I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X.

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