I said,'Instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women singers are going in [revealing], I'll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet. . . I will have mystique.
I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.
The red kind of symbolizes a lot of things I do in Africa, along with a lot of the work, like the red laces. Everybody that buys a pair can pretty much save a life in Africa.
When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows.
The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow.
I love playing around with vintage fabrics and lace.
The skaters a lot of times do their own hair and makeup before they compete. That was always kind of a ritual. . . that calming, quiet time where you can just do your hair and makeup. And then I would always lace up my right skate before my left one.
Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.
Are we gonna see power laces in 2015? To that I say yes!
It felt smooth coming off my hands. I felt the laces around the ball. It was just all good.
Love, I've never been anyone's mother; I don't know how to talk to young or old. But don't stop smiling just because I flap my mouth and say something that's not dressed around the edges like a lace tablecloth. Thicken up and we'll get along fine.
I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchys sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, The Artist is Present, in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress.
I love attention, I'm very honest about it. . . [but] if I wanna wear a pink dress or a lace dress or a kilt of whatever, it's like I'm not solely doing it for attention, I'm doing it first for myself because it gives me pleasure.
I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.
My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine Now I've freedom unbound Cut the laces of life
A poem is a spider web Spun with words of wonder, Woven lace held in place By whispers made of thunder.
Thanks for the memory Of lingerie with lace, Pilsner by the case And how I jumped the day you trumped my one-and-only ace How lovely it was!
That's always the plan any time you lace them up, any time you get out there, you want to win [ Super Bowl]. And you want to win the whole thing. Especially having been there before, you want to go back there again and again and again.
