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(94 votes)   For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

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(30 votes)   My first time in England, in the '60s, the interiors were somehow familiar to me, probably because of the books I'd read and the images I'd seen.

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(29 votes)   I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

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(28 votes)   But it seemed like the more we advanced, the more the future looked impossible, making us return to the more radical times in the past.

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(26 votes)   For fifteen years I've had Swiss clients who tell me that it's a mystery how the French react to their own artists, especially the painters.

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(24 votes)   In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

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(19 votes)   That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To enter you had to descend a grand staircase.

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(19 votes)   The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

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(18 votes)   There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.

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(17 votes)   Much later, designers like Dior and Saint Laurent recreated styles form the '30s and '40s.

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(17 votes)   We all look for lost time.

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(15 votes)   I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.

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(14 votes)   Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

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(12 votes)   But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.

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(12 votes)   There's always some kind of hidden logic.

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