You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.
Christian DiorRead
Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.
Interpretation
Christian Dior expresses the idea that all of life's experiences influence his creations in fashion.
In this quote, Christian Dior reflects on the profound connection between life experiences and artistic expression. He suggests that every moment, emotion, and encounter shapes his designs, affirming the idea that art is deeply personal and reveals the intricacies of an individual's journey through life.
In practice
In a speech at a fashion conference.
You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.
Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.
Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.
Without foundations, there can be no fashion.
All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire.
We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.
I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.
If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.
I think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the story.
I kept thinking about how ironic it is how people who live in places where there is diversity tend to love it - and the people that don't live in particularly diverse places tend to be the ones attacking it. In a way, that's similar to music, which is essentially the art of bringing things together.
Pop art is a way of liking things.
One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
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