Grace Coddington quotes
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“Three rules of success in fashion: perseverance, dream a bit and be passionate about it.”
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“Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you can see can inspire you.”
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“For me, one of the most important aspects of my work is to give people something to dream about, just as I used to dream all those years ago as a child looking at beautiful photographs. I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world”
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“I think I got left behind somewhere, because, you know, I'm still a romantic”
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“Fashion isn't just frocks. It's how we do our houses, our gardens, it's what we eat and drink.”
-- Grace CoddingtonSource : "Grace Coddington: Creative Indeed" by Julie Kavanagh, www.1843magazine.com. Spring 2011.
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“You have to be tougher. You have to learn the way to beat your path through, to make yourself felt, and make yourself necessary.”
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“You have to go charging ahead, you can't stay behind.”
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“You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid”
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“Sometimes I think I’m the last remaining person who goes to the shows for the pleasure of seeing the clothes, rather than desperately wanting to be there for the social side”
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“I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world”
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“I don't mind to look older. I don't have this urge that so many people have that they've always got to look young all their lives. I think you should be the age you are and enjoy it... But if you want to have it, go ahead and have it, but take a good look before you do because, just maybe, you look absolutely beautiful the way you are.”
-- Grace CoddingtonSource : "A Model Career: 'Grace' Goes From Runway To 'Vogue'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 20, 2012.
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