I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics.
My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations.
You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. . . . If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.
My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].
We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.
Freedom is the only style. That is why I never speak about beauty or beautiful products but 'good products'. Nowadays, we have so many challenges; it is not really a priority to care for beauty. The only way for us is to focus on an ethic and ecological behaviour.
I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there. " And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you. " And sure enough, they did.
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.
Only the man with a free mind has own the infinite horizons!