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 can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first place be afforded; it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.
Any time is the time to make a poem.
Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction.
The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.
When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.
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