Isaac Mizrahi Quotes

• All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I’d wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.

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• Everyone asks, Will he make it, will she make it? You never make it.

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• I don’t like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they’re describing themselves.

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• Either it works or it doesn’t.

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• Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

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  Tags in Food

• How do I do it? I don’t know how I wouldn’t do it – that’s the thing.

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• Half the time I don’t even think about it, I just throw something on because I’m so late or so busy.

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• I don’t want to offend people.

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• I’d love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he’s a very private guy. Also, he’s creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.

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• I’m not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

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• If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn’t really work.

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  Tags in Fashion, Try

• I’d love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she’s a mysterious, mysterious figure.

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• I’m so involved in melancholy.

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• In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it’s still limited. But here you have just everything.

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• I have a lot of obligations.

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• If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I’m thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I’ll hate it and I’ll have to redo it.

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  Tags in Time, Hate

• Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I’m seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up.

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  Tags in Hate, Crazy, Fashion

• Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.

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  Tags in Food, American

• Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a s*x symbol.

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  Tags in Sex, Face, Symbol

• Sometimes I’m really dressed up, and it really turns me on.

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  Tags in Sometimes, Dressed, Turns

Isaac Mizrahi (35)

Birth:	14th October, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Anchor, Director, Fashion Designer

About

Mizrahi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an observant Jewish family that originated in Syria. His father gave him a sewing machine at the age of ten. At 15, he launched his own label, IS New York, with the help of a family friend. He attended Yeshivah of Flatbush, High School of Performing Arts, and the Parsons School of Design.

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