It's a Japanese way of thinking, that I give value for my merchandise. So I don't want to sell unnecessarily expensive dresses and make just 10 or 20 and then feel satisfied. I want to design for real women who can afford my dresses. Tadashi Shoji More Quotes by Tadashi Shoji More Quotes From Tadashi Shoji So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower and it knows it Tadashi Shoji powerful flower grace I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X. Tadashi Shoji size design dresses I design to make women feel confident and beautiful. Tadashi Shoji design feels beautiful Dont wear dresses that are too tight. A size number is just a number. If the fit is comfortable, it will look more elegant. Tadashi Shoji size dresses numbers This is for a busy woman, one zip. That’s it. Tadashi Shoji entertainment Time flies so quick. I remember my second year in business when Bullocks Wilshire did a whole window of my white dresses. I was so excited, I went there at night and took pictures. Tadashi Shoji business time night window As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up. Tadashi Shoji cheers find colors me Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful. Tadashi Shoji good women strength beautiful There's almost a T-shirt feeling to wearing my evening dresses. Tadashi Shoji t-shirt feeling evening dresses So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it. Tadashi Shoji sketch me you design When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired. Tadashi Shoji go me young want I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type. Tadashi Shoji like hollywood quiet television Am I famous in Japan? I don't know, and I don't really think of myself in that way. Tadashi Shoji myself think know way My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy. Tadashi Shoji me business brother joy I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American. Tadashi Shoji i-am me clothes style Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite. Tadashi Shoji opposite everyone fashion business Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself. Tadashi Shoji yourself you blame believe
