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.
Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.
Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.
I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.
When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted for fifteen years and tried to produce. I looked for stories that were the story beneath the story that you thought you knew, like 'The Candidate'.
And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good sense-a thing in footing indispensable: he danced without theatrical pretence, not like a ballet-master in the van of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.
Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable.
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