Jeremy Scott Quotes
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It was here in L.A., before 'I Kissed a Girl' and all that. She stopped me and told me she was a huge fan and that she was a singer and that one day she hoped that I would dress her. I ended up dressing her for her record release.
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I like to think of my work and the way people approach it in the same way people approach a Lichtenstein painting. You can write a one-hundred-page dissertation about why he used comics. Or it could be like, 'This is cute!'
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With the clothes I design, I think about my friends, how I'd want them to dress, what I'd want them to wear.
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McDonald's, Barbie - they're all icons, recognizable from London to Timbuktu.
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I grew up on a farm and didn't have connections, and I had a dream that I believed in, and I felt passionate about it, so if I can instill hope into somebody too with the film, that's what I most want.
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When I design, I always pull from things that are significant to me. In my work, I search for happiness and then try to convey that joy in the clothes.
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There probably wasn't a day that went by in high school that I wasn't bullied either physically or verbally. It made me stronger, and I knew I had to stay steadfast to what I believed in.
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I was born dirt-poor with barely a stitch on my back, and no name or prestige attached to me, and no real clout or connections.
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I've taken a look back at my body of work and tried to deduce an essence, capturing aspects that reoccur. Reflecting on your own product can be difficult yet enthralling.
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Suddenly, Dallas has become a big part of my life, and now I feel like I'm part of the fabric of the community here.
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I don't really dissect too much when ideas come - they just kind of pop into my head; I just take them and run.
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Even as exuberant as my style is and as over the top as I may be, I can appreciate a classic when it's really well done.
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Sometimes people have questioned whether I was making fun of the industry or just at myself. I'm just trying to raise a smile. Clothes aren't meant to be worshipped at a church altar.
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I always grew up watching things transform, and a lot of that was what we would call trash.
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There have been a lot of challenges, but I'm still standing on my own, and it's quite an achievement knowing that I own my own business and created my own success through hard work and vision.
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You don't have to be born wealthy and have an aristocratic last name or have connections or all these things. If you have a dream, you can believe in something and work hard and struggle and fight for it and still have a chance to succeed.
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I was Hillary in '08. I love Obama, but I was Hillary first, so I was happy to be back there with her again.
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I think Barbie and I are very similar in many respects. That's why she made such a great muse for the summer Moschino collection.
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I'm a populist. I'm the people's designer... It's important that there are price points that allow people in who maybe don't have the ability to have higher-ticket items - but they can still have something very emblematic of the collection.
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'What if this funny-looking youngster from Missouri is talented after all?' I think it was a nice place to grow up, but I'm glad I don't live there anymore.
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When I had no place to live and I had no place to sleep - and I did sleep in the Metro - I held steadfast to the fact that I had a dream, a reason why I'm doing this... that it was bigger than this moment.
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When Jackie Kennedy wanted to wear her favourite European designers, she was told no. She had to start working with brands like Adolfo, who had to create Chanel knock-offs because that's what she wanted to wear.
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I'm very organic in nature with my creativity. It just kind of wraps around me, or it's a moment I have, a click of inspiration. It's never calculated.
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Designers have a reputation for setting the tone for what people - and especially women - are supposed to wear. How long their skirts should be, things like that. I have a different philosophy: put something out there with humour; let people see that and come around to it on their own.