Jeremy Scott Quotes
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Posterity is something I'm a big fan of because that's how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.
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I like the mix of something farmlike and something futuristic and artsy mixed together. It's kind of both my worlds.
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Sometimes when I'm just really relaxed, that's also a creative time for me, because that's when my mind is more open because I'm not worried or thinking or being very analytical.
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I'm not anti-intellectual, but primarily, I try to feel things. Emotions aren't always rational; it's not possible to put them into words.
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I know that my image and my clothing and my output are very colorful and can be arresting and startling in some respects. That is the nature of my work, but I am a simple farm boy, and I am very calm by nature.
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I'm a very normal person with a very even keel.
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I fell in love with L.A. To me, it is the most quintessentially American city.
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A lot of my collections are informed by nostalgia. I think that's because I loved clothes early on. I remember, at maybe age five, being concerned about what I wore, right down to the underwear.
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I feel my role is to push boundaries. I don't like things to be safe and sedentary. So controversy is the cross I have to bear.
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I moved to Paris around 1995 or 1996; my first collection on the runway was in 1997.
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I love the low-rider cars and that whole culture.
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My country is in the toilet. And when my country is in the toilet, the world is in the toilet.
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I've always felt like an outsider, and I'll probably continue to always feel like an outsider. Hopefully that's a good thing. I feel like I approach things differently than other designers.
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I think about my friends all the time when I'm designing. That's always an arbiter. Would Katy wear this? Would Rihanna wear this? Would Sia wear it? Would Miley wear it?
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I want my clothes to have a life and then end up in a secondhand store, where some cool girl discovers them 20 years later. If the runway or red carpet is the only life clothes have, it's sad.
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If Michelle Obama had stepped out in an outrageously priced jacket by an Italian designer, heads would have rolled. People would have said it was deplorable.
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I really don't see little girls growing up and thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to morph myself so I look like Barbie.'
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By the nature of fashion, you're only as good as your last collection, so I'm constantly striving to be better, so I don't look at it as if I've made it.