Top 388 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Fashion designers - Page 3

I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I'm a better husband, I'm a better father, if my body is physically functioning at the highest possible levels.

Grace! It's Christmas for goodness sake! Think about the baby Jesus. Up in that tower letting his hair down, so that the three wise men could climb up and spin the dreidel and see if there's six more weeks of winter!

Everything I do with BLK DNM is more personal than anything I have done before. I've worked hard to go deeper in my true intuition, and therefore I am definitely more pure in my personal taste than ever.

For me, a muse is someone who looks glamorous but is quite passive, whereas I was very hard-working. I worked from 9am to sometimes 9pm, or even 2am. I certainly wasn't passive

My truth is this: That I don't know what will happen tomorrow because you can never know.

You don't compete with dollars, but you compete with ideas. Your only real borders are what you can imagine.

Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an institution, it moved to Europe and became a culture, and it moved to America and became a business! We've left the experience long behind.

Fashion is about having a point of view, a taste and a personality. For us we always felt we could apply our DNA really to anything but you have to do it if it's true to you, feels authentic. It has to be real.

Casual to me implies a lack of care or thought.

I love the tradition of changing gowns throughout the reception. I know it's a little extravagant, but why not - it's your moment.

I'm very curious and being childlike is vital in our industry

In a funny way I think social media is making people less rather more experimental. People are too worried about looking good all the time. When I grew up you could get it all horribly wrong and it didn't matter, there was no record.

You too are a brand. Whether you know it or not. Whether you like it or not.

Work really hard, think carefuly about how you spend every penny, and be absolutely true to your own vision of your clothes and your brand. It has to be personal.

You can't stay in one place. If you stay in one place you die. So you have to move forward.

A vivid color blocked tunic dress sets the perfect tone for Spring.

My life has changed financially and I have a name, but I try to never forget people on my journey.

To project your idea, you have to use new technology. It's not like the '70s or the '80s; you have an image that you project globally.

A PERFUME SHOULD BE AS IMBUED WITH MEANING AS IT IS LIGHT TO WEAR.

I always like to incorporate one or two chic accessories that contrast with the more gritty look of my daily uniform: a leather jacket and jeans.

Buy products of genuine lasting value from brands that take their manufacturing seriously. I have things that are 75 years old, like the dinner suit of my grandfather's that was made in 1933 by a tailor in Edinburgh. Clothes develop stories. You can remember where you've been through clothing that you've worn. I want products that are going to endure. I hate that we buy things that are disposable. We need to buy products with integrity.

It’s much easier to give up, than to put a Fight, but fighters are only people that win.

I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress.

It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth.

Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial and volatile about the seasonal and elusive whims of fashion which offends my sense of beauty.

In Paris, I didn't want to be friends with people in fashion. I wanted to get into a philosophical society where all the thinking men were.

I design differently because I am Patrick Kelly, and Patrick Kelly is black

Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently.

Taste is the feeling that permits one to tell the difference between what is beautiful and what is merely spectacular.

Living in New York, I get inspired by what young women are wearing - everything from high fashion to street fashion.

The underground and the alternative is going to be substituted with being a virus.

Embrace an effortless a-line silhouette in the seasons must have indigo shades.

Style is a continuum. Style never changes. It's a straight line. It's a refinement of the same vocabulary. Style takes you from day to evening, season to season.

I think forums are great. It's a weird thing to overhear a conversation about yourself. But, the bottom line is that these people are really interested; they get the image and they get very opinionated and it turns into squabbles. You know that's human nature, that's life.

Work always gives me an opportunity to grow as an artist and a person.

I've always been a keen cyclist, I'm very close to the world of cycling. Not just cycling really - also walking, adventures, being a curious person, traveling to new countries.

Fashion is about today and tomorrow. Nobody cares how good you used to be

It's not like I studied abroad, I went to school and university in New Delhi. So many people in India think of me on the level of big artists, which is wonderful - and also an enormous responsibility.

My upringing did influence me to a certain extent. I grew up going to private school, and we'd have these really cute uniforms, but you'd only have so much sway over how you could "customize" them. I would line my blazers, I would dart my skirts, I'd change the buttons, I would do anything I could to make them unique. And when I started designing, I found myself referencing those roots. I love a sort of preppy, gender-bender vibe. I wanted to incorporate the feel of menswear into the looks. That definitely comes from my private school days.

I love when brides tell me they want to do something special and unique, but I'm not a fan of doing anything too crazy.

You can do what you want, at home. But when you go out, keep it together.

We don't take on battles so small we know we can win, we take on battles so big we dare to dream of winning them.

Asexual, aseasonal, rectangular, slick palette of blacks, touches of pure grays and intense dark blues.

I think it's great to use fashion to develop your personality and express who you really are.

I hate fashion. Or the word fashion, which sounds colorful, extravagant, expensive and gorgeous. “I never wanted to walk the main street of fashion. I have been walking the sidewalks of fashion from the beginning, so I’m a bit dark.

Sometimes you lose some friends and you get new ones.

Styling is my form of painting. I can understand the process behind it, the being afraid to start, and the diving into it. I've learned not to be afraid of doing something that might not be right. If you don't try then you won't know.

Do what you love and believe in, and work hard.

The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some point you have to decide: Are you going to mindlessly go the easy way or are you going to go the ethical way?

I don't even know what's brilliant in fashion anymore. There are too many voices.

We are so excited for what's next. I think that's what I love most about it, the energy and the excitement that comes from that.

Don't talk to the people until you've listened to the people.

What I like about eyewear is that it can work with a lot of different looks. You can wear it with a Balenciaga dress, or something that is straight and very quirky.

The range of genre that we is very diverse, which makes for a fun and multi-dimensional show, but creating something that flows, depending on what kind of vibe the show is going to be [loud dive bar, small theatre, festival] is a bit of an art a haphazard art at times.

The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example, ideal transformations of an entire wall and entire room.... There is no denying that one of the major attractions of these successful large compositions is their structural decorative use in the contemporary scene... That these large canvases can be superbly decorative may not be considered complimentary by some of the artists involved.

If a body can no longer be accentuated, it should be abstracted.

The McQueen woman doesn't want to feel casual. It's not that kind of world. When you put on the clothes, they make you stand differently, feel differently. It was about how to do that but make it feel light. I've always been part of Lee's romantic side, that's what I love.

Never give up. If you don’t give up, you will get there in the end.

For theater, the fashion had to have a certain grandeur that would read on the stage while also flattering the actress. The same thing applies when doing a wedding dress, but the treatments can be more delicate and there can be much more detail.

As a rule, ladies of the Royal Family wear light coloured clothes because such colours are more discernible against a great crowd.