Top 87 Quotes & Sayings by Jenny Packham

I feel our brides are empowered women who know what they want and have a strong sense of their identity. Obviously, they love fashion and glamour.

I play with those two eras a lot. The '70s did actually take quite a lot inspiration from the '30s. I love the '70s, the bold color. There's something very sophisticated about it now, looking back.

Research the venue and location before outfit shopping, as it helps set the mood and style focus: a traditional wedding in the countryside offers a different set of sartorial rules to a tropical, beach vibe, for instance.

Our customers are worldwide themselves - the Middle East, the Far East, Europe.

When I design, I think about the desire someone might have for it and why. I want them to fall in love with it.

Sometimes simple accessories are all you need when your dress speaks for itself.

I love travelling and use my time abroad to be inspired.

Old Hollywood icons such as Marilyn Monroe, Vivien Leigh, and Bette Davis are so inspiring; their style is romantic and feminine and their glamour mesmerizing. I love the idea of channeling that spirit on your wedding day.

I loved dressing Elizabeth Hurley. I thought that was wonderful. She was one of those women who is so aware of how she looks in everything.

Carey Mulligan- I'd love to dress her. And Nicole Kidman.

I think it is very hard to design in colours you don't feel right about.

There is definitely a 'red carpet moment' to a bride's wedding day, but when designing for bridal, it is important to focus on the details that will captivate and capture the imagination of the bride - she has to fall in love with the gown.

A lot of my designs are inspired by the 1930s, when people were fabulous at dressing up. Then it just all kind of fell away.

I don't really design for myself. It would be very limiting.

We have a wide range of looks that address all the different types of women we cater to in all of the different territories we sell to.

I have always loved to create pieces that are special, unique. It's very important to me that the dress means something to someone. I've no real interest in making something that's an everyday item.

A dress is an emotional thing to make. You've got to fall in love with it and not just with the dress - the whole process of designing it has to be a good experience.

I've always wanted to dress Cate Blanchett because I think she's so stylish.

My job is to make sure there's something about each dress that ignites the bride's imagination.

I always see bridal as a cultural thing: you have to get under the skin to find out what is needed in that market. For instance, the Italians love plain dresses, and the Americans loved beaded ones.

I love Elizabeth Hurley. I have met her on a few occasions and was stunned by her beauty and her attitude. Very cool and easy going.

I like the challenge of dressing ladies in lots of different things.

I think it's always wonderful to dress people in the public eye. It's the icing on the cake and such an endorsement of what we do.

With a wedding gown, I have to make sure that people fall in love with it and that the details are very specific and special. There has to be a big story behind it and a great deal of integrity when it comes to the design.

There's nothing standard about a wedding dress or shoes anymore.

Accessories are the perfect way to add something special. A hair comb or a beaded clutch can be a lovely detail to finish your bridal look.

I always love the domineering, slightly wicked women on screen.

Wonderbra is such an iconic brand with strong design values and great sense of humour.

We've been seeing a lot of brides buying two dresses for their wedding, especially in America, and a lot of brides are talking about changing shoes halfway through. It is a very long day to be wearing one pair of shoes, however comfortable they are. It is about marrying that combination of style and comfort together.

I think, for us, as an evening wear line, anytime someone on the red carpet wears our dress, it's an endorsement.

I really enjoy the diversity of the people we dress.

I do think there is a bit of Liberace in me.

If I don't see an emotional response to a dress, then I think something's wrong.

I like the American style. I love L.A. They have a completely different way of dressing.

I like to come home and completely forget about work.

I have always aspired to create beautiful designs that make women feel elegant and confident - for me, that is my greatest challenge and inspiration.

If I can get someone to put on a dress, walk in a room, have them feel great, and have everybody think that they look lovely, too - that's my job, as far as evening wear goes.

I always love long shirt dresses with hand painting on it. It's just wonderful.

I love it when people who don't normally see fashion shows see them, because they find it so exciting.

I hated the '80s for years, and now I look back and think, actually, there was something really cool about it.

We don't go to parties much. I am very serious about my work. But I also have two children, and I wanted to do that job well.

Our dresses take a long time to make.

I realised as a teenager that I was destined for a creative life and found that fashion design was something I enjoyed and was a potentially successful career path.

There is such an emotional connection between the bride and her wedding dress, whereas in ready-to-wear you may just be focusing on color or prints for that particular season.

I create fashion that is memorable.

Having made all the decisions, I think a wedding day is a day when you want to forget what you are wearing and be in the moment.

I think in L.A., every night they're going out somewhere. So you have this culture of dressing up.

I think with bridal fashion, it moves very slowly.

With the bridal wear I love the fact that people show me their pictures about what I've done for their special day. It's lovely that I'm a part of someone's history.

The Wonderstar collection is a fantastic fusion of Hollywood glamour and Wonderbra's technical genius.

The L. K. Bennett and Jenny Packham bride is confident, feminine, and fashion-forward.

It was our belief we should have a customer base and that the catwalk was actually supporting and increasing the business.

Most of our customers want something glamorous. They want to be looked at, but not for the wrong reasons.

I'm so fond of abstract design in the style of Vanderbilt and David Hicks and that whole 1970s era. They took the 1930s and gave it a bit of technicolour.

I always design with the occasion in mind, so I particularly enjoy creating bespoke pieces; it's always an exciting challenge for me creatively.

All I ever aim to do is make beautiful evening wear.

Young girls - like friends of my daughter's - always ask if we do prom dresses, and we do dresses that would be lovely, but £2,000 isn't realistic for most girls. The Debenhams collection will hopefully be great for that sort of event because the price point is much lower.

It's always a fantastic moment for me when someone wears one of our designs.

Nobody is going to buy one of our dresses because it will do, or as something to hide away in their wardrobe and wear at some dimly undetermined point. They always have an event of some kind in mind. They want to walk in the room and for everybody to think how amazing they look. That's the job, really.

When we first started doing bridal, I found the bridal business very archaic; it was very removed from general fashion.