Starting your own business and thinking about how you can grow something and fulfill both expectations and needs … - Joseph Altuzarra

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My favorite song he ever wrote was 'Cold Cold Heart. ' If you think about it, the lyric to 'Cold Cold Heart,' see how many two syllable words are in that song. Very, very few. . . . Verses and the choruses have very few two syllable words. 'I tried so hard my dear to show that you're my everything. ' One three-syllable word.

Joseph Altuzarra

Starting your own business and thinking about how you can grow something and fulfill both expectations and needs of your retailers and still stay exciting for the runway, you sort of become this left brain-right brain person pretty quickly.

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There’s a side to me that likes to make clothes for everyday. But I also think of fashion as an escape. It’s like a dream. It shouldn’t always be practical and about real life. Sometimes you have to do a piece that has a bit more of a wow - almost like, "I don’t know who’s going to wear that. It’s almost too much. " That’s a lot of what fashion is about. Even in an economy that isn’t strong and where it’s important to sell clothes, you have to make things that let people dream a little, you know?

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The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.

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It's important not to take all this fashion stuff too seriously, and I kind of love the idea of cheesiness.

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I think designers are starting to realize that we're all in the same industry. We're making clothes - we aren't saving the world. I'm not saying that designers aren't artists, but at the end of the day, we make clothes.

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My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.

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