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• ‟ Paul Poiret did wonderful things because he was so influenced by motifs, but Vionnet really understood the kimono and took the geometric idea to construct her clothes - and that brought such freedom into European clothes in the 1920s.

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• ‟ When I first began working in Japan, I had to confront the Japanese people's excessive worship for foreign goods and the fixed idea of what clothes ought to be. I wanted to change the rigid formula of clothing that the Japanese followed.

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• ‟ I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked.

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• ‟ Indian clothes are usually tight.

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• ‟ I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.

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• ‟ The future of fashion is light, durable clothes.

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