Zac Posen Quotes

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Zac Posen

Profession : Designer

Birth : October 24, 1980

Taking sartorial risks and not following other people is what makes you stand out.

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I'm quite a tuxedo junkie, I collect them all year round.

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I have so many fashion mistakes, but that's part of being in fashion. I think the people that you see make the most mistakes are usually the best dressers.

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I love creative people.

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I started cooking out of middle school depression.

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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.

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New York ladies all look immaculate.

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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

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One of my goals and dreams is to work in film in the future.

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To me, being in fashion is about your work, not about facilitating a lifestyle.

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If you're entering into fashion in an original way, you have to know your craft, and you have to know your history. You have to be obsessively dedicated. You have to be relentless about making it happen. It doesn't take a bank. It takes passion, love, timing, and luck.

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To me, the more dialogue amongst creative types, the better. It keeps people on their toes, and competition is healthy.

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You can't market or commercialize feminism as an entity. One has to be careful. I aim to be about powerful women in my clothing.

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To be able to buy a plant and plant it, that's a luxury to me.

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I'm a SoHo born-and-raised kid. So my parents dragged me to lots of museums, and for birthdays and any kind of celebration, we'd go to the theater.

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At the end of the day, you're not defined, I don't believe, by your financial means. That doesn't make you a better person or a smarter person.

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I go online at night and I order flowers, rare flowers, and then they come in the mail. That's my fashion detox.

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One of my fantasies is to produce 'Auntie Mame' as a play.

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Beyond fashion, I think that culture has a side where they love to shoot you up like a clay pigeon and then take out their rifles. I lived that, and I got to see the perspective from up in the sky.

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Fashion is a pay-to-play game; this is an industry. At a certain point, you must bridge a gap where you are supporting the reviewer, the publication, and that is very real.

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