A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.
Interpretation
A challenging economy can foster creativity by forcing designers to innovate with limited resources.
Diane Von Furstenberg suggests that tough economic times can actually benefit the design world by merging necessity with functionality. When resources are scarce, designers are motivated to think outside the box, leading to creative solutions and innovative designs that may not have emerged in more affluent circumstances.
In practice
In a discussion about resilience in design during economic downturns.
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All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
I design for the woman who loves being a woman.
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As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the creative process itself, so we must first have a vision of the future sufficiently entrancing that it will sustain us in the transformation of the human project that is now in process.
The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.
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