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• It's great advice - to open your eyes, have a little humility, and let go of ego. I think that instills in you a sense of responsibility. I also think you have to feel like you want to enrich your life, and you want to keep your eyes open, and you want to listen and be a good listener.

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Letting Go, Humility, Eye

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• Personalmente no creo haber hecho nunca, en mi vida laboral, nada vulgar. Sé que he hecho cosas provocativas.

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  Thinking, Done, Provocative

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• Style doesn't have seasons.

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  Style, Vogue, Seasons

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• You cannot squelch what's happening at the moment - you cannot put a lid on it and squash it down.

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  Momentos

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• I was surrounded by talented people. I always remember Mrs. Carmel Snow, saying to me, "You know, Polly, if one person thinks they're a big star, then we're all stars. You just go out there and always do your best. And always have time to see any designer - no matter how big or how small, have time to see them. You don't have to just see the big shots. You never know what's coming around the corner and the talent that is going to be important. That is your job."

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Thinking, People, Snow

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• I like people with guts. I want to feel in the clothes what the designer is really feeling when they're alone with themselves and their fabrics and they're drawings, and what happens when they let the creativity that they have been blessed with come forward. That's why they are who they are.

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  Blessed, Creativity, People

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• I love street, adore street. Life is about mixing things and to be divine in the streets. Voila!

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  Mixing, Life Is, Divine

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• You can squint and see something else, or something will come forward in the paint. You'll always see something else.

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Pintar

  Interview with Nicolas Ghesquiere, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 17, 2010.

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• Cuando terminé mis estudios, aún no había terminado la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Por aquel entonces, mi hermana mayor, Nancy, trabajaba en New York en Lord & Taylor, y tenía una gran amiga llamada Sally Kirkland con la que trabajaba allí y que más tarde pasó a trabajar como editora en Vogue. Yo siempre les decía: "Quiero trabajar en la moda como tú", y finalmente, a finales de los años 40, también conseguí un trabajo en Lord & Taylor.

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  Fashion, War, School

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• I think Alexander McQueen was very, very special. When I went to his first show, I couldn't speak because I was so enthralled. I was saying to myself, "What am I looking at here? What's going on here?" Because, I'm really a loner. I've been a loner for a long time, because I guess I prefer that. For me to get the best out of myself, I have to trust my judgment. And so while watching an Alexander McQueen collection, I would feel isolated. Even though I was surrounded, I would still feel isolated by what I was looking at, if that makes sense.

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  Pensar, Largo, Especial

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• Happy family gives you a brick-by-brick foundation that you build on for the rest of your life. And then it teaches you so many things that are important in your life, like being a good sport, and not thinking negatively, and always having a good feeling for your fellow man. We went to wonderful schools. We just had a great life and I'm ever grateful for it.

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Sports, Grateful, School

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• One day, Sally Kirkland said to Diana Vreeland, who was the fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar at the time, "I have a young woman I want you to meet. She's very young, but I think you should meet her." When Sally Kirkland told me this, I said, "I can't possibly do that! I'm going to throw up! That's the scariest thing I've ever heard! I can't do that, Sally. I'm not ready to do that!" But Sally said, "You let them make that decision." I was absolutely terrified.

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  Fashion, Thinking, Decision

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• That's why you have to keep your mind open - so that you can be given the privilege to have five weeks in Japan and take all of that in. I mean, that's privilege to be able to do that. And you have to give that privilege back - it doesn't belong to you. It belongs to the madding crowd.

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  Mean, Giving, Mind

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• You have to want to dare being a model. You have to dare or you don't go that step further. You have to be willing to stretch - and to not only be willing to stretch, but to want to stretch.

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  Atrévete

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• I think movies also played a part in my interest in fashion. I've also always been hooked on the movies. From my early teens on, I always had my favorite movie stars who I admired, like Carole Lombard and Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, and the men in my life who I loved, like Gary Cooper.

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  Moda, Hombres, Pensamiento

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• I think Diana Vreeland recognized the passion and the energy I had. I stayed at Harper's Bazaar for two years, until I met my first husband and moved on to Philadelphia in 1952. But they were incredible years - wonderful, wonderful years. But, anyway, my career sort of took off from there. I was really blessed.

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  Husband, Blessed, Passion

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• If you've taken the job to be the stylist for a collection, then I think it's important for you to really listen to the designer and look at the board. Look at the wall, look at what the designer is interested in, and then move on to that. But the designer also must not lose sight of the reason for their point of view. Otherwise it won't come across.

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  Wall, Moving, Taken

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• I remember once I didn't like a dress that we had to shoot - I'll never forget this - and so I turned it inside out and put it on the model backward.

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  Remember, Never Forget, Forget

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• Nunca me cansaré de mirar obras de Pablo Picasso. Nunca me cansaré de ver obras de Francis Bacon o Henry Moore o Francisco Goya. No te puedes cansar de las obras que han hecho estas personas porque puedes mirarlas una y otra vez -lo mismo- y ver siempre algo diferente.

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  Tired, People, Different

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• I wear all my T-shirts from Helmut Lang with the holes in the elbows, which people always speak of. When my husband gets a hole in his sweater, at his elbow, he says, "It's very Helmut Lang!"

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  Husband, People, Speak

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• I do think there is a lack of modernity at the moment - and I don't even like that word, modernity, anymore. There aren't enough designers today anyway - there are more stylists.

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  Thinking, Today, Moments

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• A lot of women say to me, "Polly, why aren't there more clothes out there that we can wear?" And I don't agree with them! There are clothes out there that they can wear - it's just that they don't dare to wear them.

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  Dare, Agree

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• That bothers me when I see that fashion editors are consultants for brands. It tells me that the designer has lost sight of what he or she really wants to do, and that he or she is listening to the strength of a very strong stylist and being a little watered down - and by watered down, I mean, the strength of the designer's vision. I'm not saying it's easy.

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  Fashion, Strong, Mean

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• They were enormously chic. My father was very chic. My mother was a heavy woman and she wore wonderful, bright colors, and pajamas, but when she was in town or in New York City or in Paris, she would wear navy blue or black. But there was a flamboyance to both of them.

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  Madre, Padre, Negro

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• I cannot imagine what an influence a five-week trip to the Orient had on me. I mean, the culture, the absorption of the Japanese way of life, the Japanese way of thinking, the discipline. The entire thing was an extraordinary experience. So these were more than memorable things to me.

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  Memorable, Mean, Thinking

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