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"It doesn’t work that way."

"It’s important to have love in one’s life, because it makes us more human and, incidentally, more beautiful."

"A conversation is an inspiration colors, anything if you have your eyes open."

"You have to be designing for the women of today."

"It's been such a journey, sometimes a very happy one, and sometimes a very difficult one."

"You have to do it again and again, but it's something that comes out of my heart, and I love it."

"I was growing up, my great interest was my horses, tennis and that’s it, and dogs and normal life, not about fashion."

"The first thing I ever designed was a black dress, for myself, when I was 14 or 15."

"It’s not simply that you are going to create a collection and you lock yourself in a black room and wait until the muses come down."

"I say all the time is, "I'm not in the fashion business."

"If you do something for so long, it's really great in your life, right."

"It has been so good because it has been 35 years that I am doing something that I love."

"You have to change your eye to look for beauty all the time."

"In fashion, you have to have perseverance."

"Maybe fashion was sleeping in me and suddenly it woke up."

"Fear is the most disgusting thing."

"I stand for glamour and consistency"

"I wanted to be a vamp since I started watching movies from the 1930s and ’40s with Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, where they wore veils and hats and carried cigarette holders."

"Fashion is not easy."

"I'm a seamstress, not a manicurist."

"My parents never allowed me to wear the dress after I made it."

"I'm in the beauty business."

"Everything is an inspiration."

"You don’t have to be afraid of getting older."

"He has always been my great love."

"I think I was madly in love with Reinaldo when I was 15 or 16, but then he went to Europe."

"She’s a pretty girl, she’s already successful, and they need TV hosts. It just takes a while for the world to catch up with Iman",Ms. Hardison"

"It’s not just enough to say that she is beautiful or beautifully dressed, although that is a part of the equation,” Mr. Kors"

"worldly, glamorous voice that has a sense of humor,” Mr. Kors"

"On the runway, she exuded style. She was an actress, a natural. She knew how to sell the clothes better than anybody",Mr.Klein"

"I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don’t learn that."

"I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through – the low self-esteem as a teenager – that is a right of passage"

"an icon for our times, Michael Kors"

"I get my stubborn character from my country’s shape"

"Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good."

"First of all, you know this is a racist act, but let me put it to you from a different perspective: What I want is pay for services rendered. If I'm doing the same job as this person, I want the same pay."

"When I was growing up in Somalia, my mom instilled in me, “Know your worth and know when to walk away from anything that doesn't serve you well. A man, careers, whatever it is—know when it is not serving you and walk away from it."

"Refugees are 99 per cent of the time people who have left their countries in fear of their lives. I am the face of the refugee"

"Since I've been in America, I've always been intrigued by one phrase: "She is beautiful, like the girl next door." I have always wondered whose neighborhood they were talking about."

"I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It’s not the outside world – it’s your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence"

"How Somalia’s Iman Abdulmajid Carved out a Niche in the Modelling World 3 years ago,by Elijah Oluwagbemiga"

"She has this amazing skin it sets off color and clothes in a way white women couldn’t do,” Mr. Klein"

"When you’re young, you don't always understand that you're making a change"

"My looks have changed. I have laugh lines – not wrinkles."

"Fashion is one of the greatest vehicles to merge music, art, architecture, design, typography... It’s a wide enough canvas, or a big enough sandbox, to touch all the different things that I’m into."

"You know my style of clothing is basically a discourse between me and the kids. That’s what the premise of the brand is... We’re talking straight to the market. But I believe in the romantic interchange between intellectuals about fashion."

"I feel like I'm juggling a lot right now, but my main focus is my cosmetics line. There's so much I want to do that I can't really think about anything else. I want to take my time and work on each individual product until it's perfect. I don't want to rush into anything."

"I had the opportunity to make like the coolest makeup line that I've always dreamed of. It's really my only passion. I learned a lot though and just have experienced things that people my age do not even know how to handle. I do feel like people don’t take me seriously as a businesswoman because of my age and my reputation. But I do think they’re starting to. I like to prove people wrong."

"I try to transition my energy into just having fun. In my experience, as a young black artist, you have to fulfill an archetype, or be a token —"

"“You will be terrified, and it's OK that you don't know what the future holds. Some people will count you out because of the decision you've"