Top 28 Quotes by Chris Benz

Life in New York is one of succumbing to a tidal wave of control and direction, of numbing oneself to emotion.

I feel like everyone should dye their hair a weird color. If you hate it, you can just dye it back.

Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing.

I used to sit in bed at night and flip through design-school catalogs. I found out that Parsons accepted a small number of high school juniors, so I applied my sophomore year and got in.

I love the challenge of taking colors that are totally disparate and making them work together in an interesting way.

I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated.

I have a fleet of Rimowa Topas aluminum suitcases! They're all covered in stickers from around the world.

I love how New York as an idea is less a paradigm of manifest destiny and more a romance for the social orphans of the world. We live here to be among the towers and the crowds.

I interned with Marc Jacobs in college, then worked at J. Crew. I learned a lot about how to fit clothes and what kinds of things sell and why.

I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.