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- Be Strong
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble.
- Phrase
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- Nov 07, 2020
'It can't be done' is not a phrase I recognize.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
England used to be known for making beautiful things. Then we became the rag trade, known for our street fashions, which were picked up around the world. I want us to be recognized for quality. We have the hands to make the clothes. What we need is the motivation.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I buy the best fabrics from small mills in Italy. That is the basis for my clothes.
- Noticed
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not me who is to be noticed. It is my work.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the age of five, I was organizing everybody's everything. If I didn't like the way it looked, I'd rearrange it. From a very early age, I saw life from my point of view.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a rather second-rate actress, I finally thought, 'I'd rather be a designer.' I knew I could make things look good.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comfort? If a choice has to be made between style and comfort, style wins every time.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The champagne tastes the same if you're sitting bolt upright or sunk back into a sofa, so you might as well be upright, because you look better.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sure, I'm hyperactive. I make my staff a bit hyper, too, but motivating someone else is what gives me a buzz.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you have an eye and the ability and the confidence as a designer, you can turn your hand to anything.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm never short of inspiration. There are always new ideas - and new adventures.
- Brim
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was the corner sweet-shop in Australia that first piqued my interest in interior design. I went into this space with a mixture of apprehension and excitement as a child. It was filled, floor to ceiling, with the most incredible rounded glass bowls filled to the brim with bonbons, buttons, and sweets.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The architect who first inspired me to follow this profession was Sir John Soane and his Regency home; well, his three homes, now a museum. The place is like an encyclopedia of paintings, antiquities, furniture, sculptures, and drawings.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that, historically, the Art Deco period has the most resonance for me. As a person, it has to be the plucky Clara Bow, the heroine of American silent movies of the 1920s. She embodied feminine dressing mixed with men's style. All this then evolved into the exquisite style and simplicity of Coco Chanel.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
The building I most admire is the Doges Palace in Venice, both by day and by night. Looking at it from the lagoon, it resembles a floating kilim carpet. I love all the bridges which connect houses, people, gardens and palaces. I also love moats to isolate yourself. A ha-ha for secrecy, as in every English country garden.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never let anyone go home feeling bad at night. You can bark away during the day, but you must always put that right.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father wanted a boy. I was supposed to be called Albert. That was probably the beginning of why things got so complicated, because I wasn't a boy.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't let many people in. I don't discuss everything. If I don't want to discuss it, I'm not discussing it. I think that annoys the hell out of an awful lot of people.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really should have been a pharaoh - do you know that?
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've got to be the best at what you can do - be the best at it! And the best has to be the best; you can't just fiddle around and hope.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting was fun for a while. I loved every minute of the really good things I did but probably wasn't as good as I should have been.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like people. Listen, if you're a hotelier, if you're a creative person, and you're working with the things that I do, then you have to like people; otherwise, you simply can't get anywhere.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless a design is infused with a personality - and by that, I mean mine or someone else who really understands what design is all about - it will never, ever have any mystery.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I've ever done has been because of travel. Right from leaving Australia to where I am today - it's all been about exchanging different points of view. The most important lesson I've learnt is to look and listen to what's happening around you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
India. From Goa to Kerala and Mumbai, it gets me every time. It's the food, the people, and the colours. The magical atmosphere and the accepting nature of the locals.
- Moving Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to get on the road, but I also think arriving is such a thrill. Turning up at the train station in Mumbai, for example, to see people hanging off all the wonderful old carriages. It's extraordinary - everyone sitting with their chickens on their laps, moving forward but not going anywhere fast.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020