In designing my bridal collections, I love mixing luxe fabrics, which give the most beautiful texture and dimension to my creations.
The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.
There’s a moment in one’s life when you should really be de-accessorizing instead of making more collections.
All of our lives are enriched by our culture, from blockbuster films, best-selling video games, independent music, and internationally-renowned museums and art collections, to theatre, opera, ballet, literary festivals and performance poetry.
The Bodleian Library, next to the Sheldonian, is one of the great libraries of the world. As well as holding most of the books printed in England since the first quarter of the 17th century, it houses priceless printed texts, manuscripts, and collections.
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
The key to my collections is sensuality.
I’m very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums – more like historical collections or house museums.
My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.
Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It’s often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.
When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting.
You tell me, why would I make ‘Housefull 4’ if I had any doubts about the popularity of the series? In fact, the collections are better than the earlier films in the series.
It’s our job as curators to open up Hampton Court to visitors, and to look after the buildings and collections for the future.
Instagram is my favorite! It’s interactive and a fun way to stay connected to my friends, family and fans. I love posting photos from family trips, property visits, previews of my collections, everything!
I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I’m not committed enough.
Audiences don’t come to theatres going by reviews. Even if a film is rated low, the collections won’t get affected.
I do have my more concept-y albums, and then I have the ones that are more about just collections of songs. For me, the first Dirty Projectors record that I put out was like that: ‘The Glad Fact.’
I’m working 24 hours a day. I have had a house in Tunisia for 20 years, and I never have time to go because there are collections, fittings.
You don’t need money to look fabulous. There are so many awesome new designers, so many designers doing collections for mass retailers.
I grew up with very elegant parents; their black and white photographs and style are still a huge source of inspiration in designing my collections.
If fashion is for everyone, is it fashion? The answer goes far beyond the collections and relates to the speed of fast fashion. There is no longer a time gap between when a small segment of fashion-conscious people pick up a trend and when it is all over the sidewalks.
I oftentimes say that I design my collections off my phone. I’m in a group chat with my team in Milan. I copy and paste. I draw. I look at trends. I don’t really have an assistant. It’s a modern way of working. I don’t know if it’s sustainable, but it’s how I do it.
What I can say is that there are some collections that come easily, and others that require more work.
I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories.
The V&A is an amazing museum, and the collections have always been a great inspiration to me.
You become an expert by working hard. We’ve got fantastic museums, collections and antique shows. You can go and just start looking. That’s the great thing about knowledge. If you collect Doulton figures, you know about the rare ones.
Creating a bridalwear collection was a natural progression from my evening wear collections, which are well known for their softly draped and diaphanous silk gowns.
I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy… fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense.
The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children’s literature didn’t exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn’t occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.
The reason I wanted to work with New Look was that they wanted to stick with one designer and do lots of collections a year.
I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.
A lot of my collections are informed by nostalgia. I think that’s because I loved clothes early on. I remember, at maybe age five, being concerned about what I wore, right down to the underwear.
I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people’s respect with bold film making and then win a special place in people’s collections, rather than just having the biggest opening weekends.
Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs – successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that’s as it should be.
I’m really into short-story collections and essays; they’re my jam.
I don’t really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It’s just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.
It’s important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.
What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you and me that now exist in giant server banks.
One of the things that we’re missing from our political dialogue right now is the idea that the United States is a home. It is more than an accounting sheet. It is more than the sum of its G.D.P., its total tax collections, or its total outlays. America is a family.
There are some areas of the world, and some areas in America, where people love full jewelry suites. That’s never been something that I’ve gravitated toward, but I will create special collections for people who like that.
There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest collections in France, any more than Kew should necessarily be a favourite garden because it has the largest assemblage of plants, or Tesco your chosen shop because it has the widest variety of canned beans.
I’ve got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
Wellcome Collection will be an exciting place in which to explore themes of human well-being, starting with the powerful collections of Sir Henry Wellcome.
The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.
You know, it’s sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don’t make money.
I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.
I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us – we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms – we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we’re gone.
My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections.
All of the collections I’ve done have been so much fun. The more knowledge and the more education I can get the better the line is. It’s something I never went to school for, so the more knowledge I get, the more advanced the line can be.
For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don’t think an artist should do everything by himself forever. I did it for years and then slowly built my circle of trust.
I think most people’s record collections are more interesting than radio generally gives them credit for. You’re likely to be as interested in the Grateful Dead as Palestrina. It pisses me off how compartmentalised music is. I used to be in a punk band, you know?
The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It’s essentially self-interested on the part of authority.
If you put the collections together, whether it’s Rick Owens, Alexander Wang, or whomever, sometimes they do streetwear, but they’re never called that. They’re always called ‘sportswear’ or ‘high-end’ or ‘luxury.’ I feel like I’m tossed into that streetwear category so that I don’t exist in this space.
