Canadian - Designer | March 19, 1963 -
Most of my holidays are with wonderfully generous friends with houses in the country or the South of France.
Patrick Cox
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I'm addicted to chinos the second weather gets warm enough.
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After selling the business, and the Patrick Cox brand in 2007, I had a three-year non-compete, where I just spent a lot of time hanging all over the world on beaches and having fun.
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I finished college by July 15th, 1985, and by October 1985, I had a little stand during the trade show which was London Fashion week at the time. My stand was tiny - just 6 square meters in total - and I had my 12 shoes that I designed while in college.
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As a designer, you are not only a designer, you are also a celebrity, an entertainer, and a spokesperson that speaks on behalf of the company. So you need to realize that you have to embrace all those sides.
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Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.
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I'm a huge monarchist.
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In fashion, my inspiration comes from pop culture - the 1960s and the following years. Whereas in interior design, my influences are much broader.
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I think a house should reflect the interests and personality of the occupant, but it takes time to gather together the objects one likes around oneself.
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I lived in Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon when I was very young, until my mother divorced my father.
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Now, I'm older. I don't follow the vagaries of fashion: my look tends to be skinny flat-front trousers with a long-sleeve American Apparel T-shirt and a V-neck cashmere jumper - preferably Loro Piana.
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Do I miss shoes? I miss the designing, but I don't miss the fashion industry. Those people eat their children.
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