Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by Zac Posen - Page 2

I was not a young fashion victim. I really had an idea of what I liked in fashion and how I dressed.

Sometimes, late at night on the set of 'Project Runway,' I've been known to pop an interpretive dance.

I think, mind over body, it's real.

I have to bring my A-Game 24/7, between creating, draping, and overseeing a myriad of different brands.

Some of the best kitchen discoveries come about through total kitchen disasters.

I just think when you are dressing a celebrity, for me, I'm hopefully adding a moment. I always say, 'What role do you want to play?' when we start a fitting.

With Zac Posen gowns, it's like making an ornate pastry. Then, sometimes, it's just great to have the perfect chicken soup or consomme. And that's Brooks Brothers.

I don't wear flip-flops, so my casual shoe is a Brooks Brothers tuxedo slipper!

I eat everything, but I moderate; I try to be semiconscious. I don't eat pasta every day, although people who follow my Instagram think I do.

Fashion has a dark side - it's not all runways and lipstick and fishtail gowns.

As an object itself, to me, books today are such a rare entity - I want mine to be something where, if left on the kitchen table, a child could pick it up. It can visually tell a story.

I went through the workroom at Central Saint Martins in London, which is the most competitive workroom of a design school in the world. Very high creativity, very conceptual, very international, age-diverse and cutthroat - people who have master degrees reapplying into a foundation there is just wild to me to launch their careers.

As one grows their company and brand, you have to learn to be a leader, and there's no formula.

For me, I'll unwind at the end of the day by soaking in Epsom salts. It's the routine I prefer for coming down after crazy days.

Obviously, I like very beautiful food, because I think as delicious as food has to taste, it also has to look very beautiful - the process of presentation is very important.

I think that maybe growing up and being dyslexic early on, the visual quality of cookbooks specifically was something very enticing to me.

When I was little, I had a Norwegian babysitter - and that was my introduction to both regular and salty licorice. We all know the ordinary version, but the salty kind is a favorite candy throughout Northern Europe. It's a guilty pleasure of mine that I have to try not to keep around because I'll eat the entire bag in one go.

As a designer, I always want to put out to a larger public. I truly believe that all bodies are beautiful, and that's what makes our world exciting.

I'm a pretty controlled and disciplined person, but my real vice is buying plants and food shopping.

There are issues that are being questioned that are fundamentally upsetting to me, deeply: immigration, funding for the arts, Planned Parenthood, and women's rights. These are just issues that are very close to my heart, and I use my own private voice and funds to fight for them and in support of them.

Since the beginning of my career, I have publicly dressed and represented women of all sizes, of all colors. And that's a big part of who I am and what I want to give to the world.

The most significant pieces for me are the ones that come from my drapings. It's emotional because they are created by my hand and then become a collaborative process in the atelier.

I believe that creativity is an important human experience and element in the same way as sleeping, eating, having sex.

A great trick for frying is to put a popcorn kernel in the oil, and when it pops, you're ready to fry.

As a little boy, my mom would bake with me on the weekends - that was our time together.

I was born and raised on 'Singin' in the Rain.' It's in my work. It's in me.

I am a Florenz Ziegfeld fanatic.

I don't cook ribs in my own home. I let my dad cook the ribs. He's from St. Louis, Missouri. I like to use a grill, but that's my dad's domain.

I like to vegetate when on vacation given my busy schedule when I'm at work.

I try to push design boundaries using new draping and fabric manipulation techniques every time I approach a new design.

I think it's really important to try to eat seasonally as much as possible. It helps put people in touch with what's happening locally and with nature.

I cherish my time off and the solitude that comes along with it.

We are living in the time of self-creation and you can become your own star and this is the essential set that it needs to take that selfie that's going to take you to that next place.

For everyday you just need one makeup element. People dress so casual today and we're living in a time where almost anything goes.

Glamour can be something very simple. Glamour can be how you wash your face, how you make your breakfast.

Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.

Love advice is like life advice, so there are so many elements of that. I think humor, patience, admiration are really important love elements. Love and respect. You have to respect the person that you're going to love, and you have to be confident in yourself and love yourself.

My muses were all the incredible, iconic women of glamour in Hollywood that I have worked with over 15 years. Anjelica Huston, Michelle Pfeiffer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lena Dunham, Viola Davis, Rihanna, Demi Moore.

In such a fast-paced world, gathering people around a table to share a meal allows everything to slow down. I would ask people to sit at least once a week around a table and just enjoy each other's company. Give them the time to talk, laugh, and fill their bellies. It seems like a small thing, but it can bring so much joy to so many people.

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules.

For the red carpet, I think dress first and the makeup to follow.

Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.

The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.

Everybody needs a killer LBD. If you're a woman, you should find that LBD that gives you that extra pep and confidence.

Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.

I am a huge believer in social media.

Glamour to the outside world is taking some sense of care in your appearance and should give you inner confidence. You can do a full on look or you can do a 'less is more' look but you want to have those components, those little things that are special to you.

There’s not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

I think that paying your bills every month, that's not so glamorous or fun, having a job, or when your child gets sick. That's why when there are those special things, they are even more important and you want them to have a purpose.