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“I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.”
“I didn't finish my dress until about three days before my wedding - I had the flu and was stitching it from my bed. And the tulle came back from India all brown. We had to wash it for hours, but th...”
“I worked a lot with Nick Knight and John Galliano when John was at Dior. He also made my wedding dress. He'll always hold a special place; I have most of my memorable, iconic moments in fashion wit...”
“I went looking for dresses and realized there was a niche I could fill in the wedding dress market.”
“My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird.”
“Honestly, I was such a tomboy as a kid. People were taking from their mothers' closets - I was taking from my dad's closet. It was the '80s, so it wasn't terrible, but I was wearing my dad's dress ...”
“When you're all dressed up and no place to go.”
“If a woman were about to proceed to her execution she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.”
“Eat to please thyself but dress to please others.”
“Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.”
“In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.”
“A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported whatthe rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong generalresemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.Her sha...”
“Vincent laughed. "No, you still need to look like a Helian.""So I should burn everything to a crisp?""Well, that would definitely get your mother's attention, but I think that she's looking for som...”
“She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.”
“Hermione was back, holding out a gossamer dress of rainbow chiffon so airy I thought of fireflies on a moonlight night.”
“It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walked away through the tables in the café, your figure, your dress, that I still see.”
