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I couldn't have asked for a better testimonial than Bob Dylan parting with his own cash for a pair of my shoes.

- Patrick Cox

Shoes, Own, Testimonial, Asked

Archives can be inspiring but overwhelming. You have to forget them - especially when the whole world has been knocking them off. Everyone shops the same flea markets.

- Patrick Cox

Everyone, Been, Them, Archives

I love Italy, and that's where I make my own shoes. But the French really do respect designers. Italy is totally different; footwear is an industry. The shoes are all about craft and luxury. French shoes are more about straight lines, and they are way more geometric.

- Patrick Cox

Love, Own, About, Footwear

I lived in Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon when I was very young, until my mother divorced my father.

- Patrick Cox

Young, Very, Nigeria, Cameroon

Do I miss shoes? I miss the designing, but I don't miss the fashion industry. Those people eat their children.

- Patrick Cox

Shoes, People, Industry, Fashion Industry

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.

- Patrick Cox

Celebrity, Embrace, Need, Spokesperson

Rock stars love Cuban heels because a lot of them tend to be diminutive. And I've never met a man who doesn't mind having an extra inch or two anywhere on his body.

- Patrick Cox

Love, Body, Anywhere, Rock Stars

I was wondering if the best was behind me, had the high point of my career already happened. Then I saw what Manolo had done, and some of his best work happened after he turned 40.

- Patrick Cox

Career, Behind, Some, Wondering

In fashion, my inspiration comes from pop culture - the 1960s and the following years. Whereas in interior design, my influences are much broader.

- Patrick Cox

Interior, Inspiration, Years, Broader

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.

- Patrick Cox

Follow, American, Trousers, Apparel

I used to sock hop to 'Crocodile Rock' and stare at those platform boots on the album cover.

- Patrick Cox

Crocodile, Album, Hop, Sock

I am like a sponge: I adore reading, watching films, and visiting museums and exhibitions. I am always in search of new things in many spheres.

- Patrick Cox

Always, Sponge, Films, Spheres

Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.

- Patrick Cox

Suits, Like, Tight, Precise

I'm not a shoe snob.

- Patrick Cox

Shoe, Snob

I was never a fashion snob.

- Patrick Cox

Fashion, Never, Snob

I'm kind of the shoe guy.

- Patrick Cox

Kind, Guy, Shoe

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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Business, Over, Having, Cox

I've learnt a lot about construction and flexibility from my time at Geox.

- Patrick Cox

Flexibility, My Time, Lot, Learnt

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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College, London, Week, Designed

If you use your own name as your business brand, keep in mind that if you lose that brand, you have lost your name. And that is a bit of a problem going forward in life. If you decide to make up a name, and if you have lost that name, then who cares. But when it is your name on the products, and you lose it, that is the game changer.

- Patrick Cox

Game, Own, Use, Brand

I've stayed in enough hotels so I really know what works and what doesn't design-wise.

- Patrick Cox

Know, Works, Stayed, Hotels

Copying is a form of self-validation.

- Patrick Cox

Form, Copying

I like to be playful; I want people to look at what I do and smile.

- Patrick Cox

People, Want, Like, Playful

By the time I came out of college, I was fabulous.

- Patrick Cox

College, By The Time, Came, Fabulous

Most of my holidays are with wonderfully generous friends with houses in the country or the South of France.

- Patrick Cox

Holidays, Country, Most, Wonderfully

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.

- Patrick Cox

Think, I Think, Objects, Gather

There is nothing worse than bright lighting - it isn't flattering and makes the glamorous women want to leave.

- Patrick Cox

Nothing, Leave, Than, Lighting

I am a magpie. My eye collects details.

- Patrick Cox

I Am, Eye, Am, Details

Show some originality and never wear one designer head to toe.

- Patrick Cox

Never, Head, Some, Originality

I came to London during what was called the second British invasion. The music was from Britain, the fashion was from Britain, everything was from Britain, so I knew I had to be in Britain.

- Patrick Cox

London, Knew, Britain, Invasion

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