Showing your femininity should help your career and not go against your career. Dressing like a man, using the suit to look powerful - that was the '80s, and that didn't help women.
Interpretation
Embracing one's femininity can enhance a woman's career rather than hinder it.
In this quote, Donatella Versace emphasizes that women should be confident in expressing their femininity in the workplace, as it can be a source of strength and empowerment. She critiques the outdated notion that dressing in a traditionally masculine way is the only means to appear powerful in a professional setting, suggesting that authenticity and individuality should be valued instead.
In practice
Using this quote during a women's leadership conference to inspire attendees.
Plus-sized women shouldn't think of themselves as a size. They should think of themselves as women with rich goals in life. Size doesn't mean, really, anything. You can carry your size with pride and dress in a way that you like.
I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascinated.
A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality. I look for that special piece that sets the watch apart from the norm. I want to have something unique that differentiates itself with style and glamour.
Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.
On a hanger, no dress is sexy. It's just fabric on a hanger.
My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.
Loyalty is very important when things get a little tough, as they often do when the challenge is great. Loyalty is a powerful force in producing one's individual best and more so in producing a team's best.
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
The minute you do any layoffs, you might as well lay off the whole joint because everybody forgets about the customer and worries about their job security.
Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.
Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. ... We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we are in a time when there are no heroes just don't know where to look. ... Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.
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