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 don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I don't want a jumble of other people's voices or visions getting in my way. Nineteenth-century voices don't create static in that silence.
The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.
Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.
What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.
It's a European art form, and you're used to seeing a certain type of person as a ballerina. And I don't look like a lot of the girls around me.
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