The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.

  • -- Jil Sander 吉尔桑德

时尚明显的无意义也许正是它作为时代精神传感器如此强大的原因。即使是我,一个设计师,也不知道为什么一定比例的人觉得过时,或者为什么另一个人在某一特定时刻感到兴奋。我把这个问题留给文化历史学家和理论家。

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If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them.But that’s not happening here. You’ve got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.

如果你想让人们表现得更好,你就奖励他们,对吧?奖金,佣金,他们自己的真人秀。激励他们。但这并没有发生在这里。你的动机是为了提高思维和加速创造力,而它的作用恰恰相反。它使思维迟钝,阻碍创造力。

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

人之所以没有体验到真正的文化自我,是因为除非他体验到另一个自我是有效的,否则他就没有什么基础来验证自己的自我。

I do try andI do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

我确实尝试过,也确实尝试过穿一些不知名设计师设计的衣服,我一定要付钱,因为如果我没有其他钱的话。

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

剧作家是最合群的作家——为了完成我们的工作,我们需要演员、导演、布景设计师。

A cultural shift is needed to incorporate exercise into our children's daily lives.

要把锻炼融入孩子们的日常生活,就需要文化的转变。

I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.

我认为打破规则和障碍是设计师的责任。