Michael Kors Quotes - Page 2

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• The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.

  Michael Kors

  Fashion, Needs, Lessons

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

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• 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.

  Michael Kors

  Garbage, Tvs, Watches

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

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• The minute it gets to a runway, you're tempted to do some high jinks. I don't want to show something I won't produce. I want people to wear the clothes I show.

  Michael Kors

  Clothes, People, Want

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• People want to look taller and thinner. No one says, 'Ooh! Let me buy that dress because it makes me feel matronly!'

  Michael Kors

  People, Dresses, Looks

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• I think to be empathetic is the greatest gift you can have as a designer. Hopefully, people will look at me and say, 'He really loved women.'

  Michael Kors

  Thinking, People, Looks

  "Michael Kors: American Idol" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 29, 2011.

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• I think a lot of women have too many mini skirts in their closets.

  Michael Kors

  Thinking, Skirts, Closets

  "New York Fashion Week: Michael Kors Talks About His Fall 2012 Collection". Interview with Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2012.

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• I grew up in a family of people who were obsessed with fashion.

  Michael Kors

  Fashion, People, Obsessed

  "Michael Kors: American Idol". Interview with Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 29, 2011.

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• It's an unbelievably tight race for hideous today.

  Michael Kors

  Race, Today, Hideous

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• Seventy per cent of the clothes you own should be meat and potatoes. Thirty per cent should be icing and fluff - that's colour, pattern, shine, accessories. Too many women get the proportions the other way round, then can't figure out why they can't get dressed.

  Michael Kors

  Clothes, Shining, Meat

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• Put on a trench, you're suddenly Audrey Hepburn walking along the Seine.

  Michael Kors

  Trenches, Audrey, Walking

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• Women are much more comfortable making their own style rules now. They want pieces that will make their busy lives easier.

  Michael Kors

  Style, Pieces, Want

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• 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.

  Michael Kors

  Eye, Thinking, People

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

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• I think the trick is, how do you spend time doing it but make it look like you haven't spent time doing it? Over the years you look at women like Lauren Hutton and everyone says: 'She just pulled her hair back and ran out of the door.' I've been in fittings with Lauren and she definitely thinks about it. She just knows how to make it look easy.

  Michael Kors

  Thinking, Years, Hair

  "Michael Kors: Make-Up's New Man". Interview with Scarlett Kilcooley-o'halloran, www.vogue.co.uk. September 25, 2013.

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• 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?

  Michael Kors

  People, Amazing Places, Feels

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

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• A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit.

  Michael Kors

  Men, Shining, Guy

  Interview with Sachin Bhola, www.askmen.com. June 23, 2009.

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• 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.

  Michael Kors

  Hate, Thinking, People

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

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• North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.

  Michael Kors

  Clothes, Needs, Looks

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• I mean you might have wanted Carrie Bradshaw, but to me she's like toddlers and tiaras gone berserk!

  Michael Kors

  Mean, Might, Tiaras

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• 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.

  Michael Kors

  Country, Fashion, Moving

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

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• I can't dance and I can't sing too well.

  Michael Kors

  Wells, I Can

  "Michael Kors: American Idol" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 29, 2011.

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• 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!

  Michael Kors

  Editing, Order, Looks

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

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• I don't even think of going to Europe as going to another country now.

  Michael Kors

  Country, Thinking, Europe

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• 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.

  Michael Kors

  Fashion, Love You, Hair

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

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• 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.

  Michael Kors

  Beach, Book, Slugs

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

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• Let's be honest - look what Hollywood at 18 is.

  Michael Kors

  Hollywood, Looks, Honest

  "'Project Runway' ('What a Girl Wants')". Game-Show, Reality-TV, January 09, 2008.

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