Georgina Chapman Quotes
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When I got pregnant, I became very interested in natural products. You wonder what you're putting on your skin when you're carrying a child.
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I'm a designer, not a businesswoman.
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My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.
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What I love about my husband is that he really allows me to be the best person I can.
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My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.
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My family is my number one priority.
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I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time.
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I didn't finish my dress until about three days before my wedding - I had the flu and was stitching it from my bed. And the tulle came back from India all brown. We had to wash it for hours, but that didn't dissuade me from wearing it.
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I love children. I've always loved children.
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One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.
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Bridesmaids are never going to upstage the bride.
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It's good to talk to people and get ideas.
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I'm an enormous fan of Ron Howard. I mean, he's the most extraordinary director.
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I love imagining being someone else in another time.
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I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.
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Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an image I've seen, or a book I am reading.
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We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her.
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It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.
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The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods.
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My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.
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New York is very career-orientated and it's hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business.
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I look much more civilized than I actually am.
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I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.
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I am a control freak.