John Rocha Quotes

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John Rocha

Profession : Designer

Birth : August 23, 1953

Guys want to be cool without appearing to be bothered about trends.

John Rocha

I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though - you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief.

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As I get older and older, people like my work more and more.

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I'm like a conductor. I come up with ideas, and I get all these people to make great music together. I have a team of really talented assistant designers. I have architects in my office. People I trained from the beginning in menswear, womenswear, and home. I have a great team who know what I want and feel and translate that into beautiful results.

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I am trained as a fashion designer and do not claim to be an expert architect or anything like that. I won't do something unless I know I can do it.

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Fashion remains closest to my heart. I get genuinely excited by my collections - I never wanted to be a businessman.

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The most important part of my work on The Orion Building was the creation within the apartments of living space which inspires people and the way they live their lives, whether they have bought a one-bedroom apartment or the penthouse. This building is beautiful to see, sense, and experience.

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I'm interested in beauty more than anything else.

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I'm a British designer, and it's great to show on your own ground.

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My family was quite poor, and the NHS was recruiting people from abroad to do psychiatric nursing. It was the only hope I had to leave Hong Kong.

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Design has always been at the heart of our business.

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We have achieved tremendous success in Ireland and internationally on the strength of our creativity and design skills.

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I want romance; I want people to be happy in their relationships.

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I think natural fibers look better over time. The more you wear them, they look even better.

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I love fashion, but fashion is not my whole life.

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I always promised myself that I wouldn't do catwalk shows until the day I died.

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I want to challenge myself in new mediums; I want to leave myself open to different things.

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I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture.

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Men like clothes they can wear to work and afterwards. They don't want things to be complicated.

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I believe that IT is the way forward. Every other industry utilises IT, and I feel that fashion needs to use it more extensively to move forward.

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