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've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.
It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.
I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature... Never again another seven-volume saga.
We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.
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