Latest Michael Kors Quotes from Interviews

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• I hate the idea that you have to give up anything. I think you can be powerful and still be provocative, you can be smart and have a softness, you can have all of it.

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  Giving Up, Powerful, Hate

  "Michael Kors Talks Kim Kardashian and Bar Mitzvah Fashion in Shanghai". Interview with Alice Pfeiffer, www.elle.com. May 14, 2014.

• You make sexiness strong by balancing it out: something familiar with something unfamiliar, something masculine with something feminine, something streamlined with something rococo. It's a Yin and Yang. Women are made of layers, your mood shifts, no one is neither one extreme nor the other.

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  Strong, Yang, Layers

  "Michael Kors Talks Kim Kardashian and Bar Mitzvah Fashion in Shanghai". Interview with Alice Pfeiffer, www.elle.com. May 14, 2014.

• China is exciting because it is an extremely curious and interested market. What more can a designer ask for? The client here is bold and willing to try new things, which a country with a long fashion history wouldn't dare. France or England is weighed down by all these rules, elaborate etiquette, do's and don'ts. Things here move incredibly quickly.

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  Country, Fashion, Moving

  "Michael Kors Talks Kim Kardashian and Bar Mitzvah Fashion in Shanghai". Interview with Alice Pfeiffer, www.elle.com. May 14, 2014.

• My personal style icon is Steve McQueen. My design style icon is a mix of everyone from Jackie O. to Lauren Hutton to my mother.

  Michael Kors

  Mother, Icons, Design

• I feel unbelievably fortunate. How many people get to do what they always wanted to do and do well with it and continue to be surprised and see amazing places and meet amazing people?

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  People, Amazing Places, Feels

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

• It's funny when I hear people complain - particularly about the most fabulous parts of being a designer, like when you're getting ready to work on a show. I don't even know that I'm tired. I could stay up for six days straight! No drugs, no coffee, no nothing. I'm just so excited.

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  Coffee, Tired, People

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

• You need to be curious one way or another as a designer. Your eye has to stay curious. I look at people and think about how they live. I think about bodies.

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  Eye, Thinking, People

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

• Fashion is not like the movie business, where you can have two great projects in a row and then say, "You know what? I'm going to take off eight months." What am I going to tell people? Wear last year's clothes?

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  Fashion, Years, Two

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

• If you want to have longevity, then I think that you have to have a point of view, but at the same time still be elastic. Things evolve, the world changes, but people have to know you for who you are so they know what you stand for.

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  Thinking, Views, People

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

• I'm definitely curious. I love pop culture. I'm glued to it. I can watch garbage TV, but then I can also watch great theater.

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  Garbage, Tvs, Watches

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

• When I'm not working I'm a slug - a full slug. I am not good at the in-between. I'm either fever-pitched or want to just pass out on a beach with a really sleazy book and eat a cheeseburger.

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  Beach, Book, Slugs

  "Exclusive: Michael Kors' Lifetime Achievements". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. September 13, 2010.

• People always think that designers hate each other. And we're certainly a competitive lot, but we also enjoy each other's company. No one else knows what you're going through other than another designer.

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  Hate, Thinking, People

  "Exclusive: Michael Kors' Lifetime Achievements". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. September 13, 2010.

• The craziest thing about fashion people in general, not just designers, is that it's always, "Oh my God, you lost weight! I love your hair!" Or "Oh, you're so tan!" Or, "You're so skinny! I love your shoes!" These are fashion icebreakers. Everyone's always looking at each other.

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  Fashion, Love You, Hair

  "Exclusive: Michael Kors' Lifetime Achievements". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. September 13, 2010.

• American women often fall into the trap of, "Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night." It's so old-fashioned. The French are not afraid of their luxury. Americans can be so puritanical and think, "That's my special-occasion bag." Whereas, for a French woman, it's her everyday bag.

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  Fall, Weekend, Night

  "Exclusive: Michael Kors' Lifetime Achievements". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. September 13, 2010.

• In early days, I showed everything I made. There was no such thing as editing a collection. In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!

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  Editing, Order, Looks

  "Exclusive: Michael Kors' Lifetime Achievements". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. September 13, 2010.