Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Designers - Page 15

You see, if you are 30 years ahead of your time, you will always have difficulty speaking with the bosses in the industry. They are too conservative.

Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It's a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there.

There are now college degrees in game design and interactive media, so if I were starting now, I would probably do that. When I started, you had to break into design from QA or programming or art, but it's really not true anymore.

Enhancing a woman's silhouette and enhancing a woman's beauty - both contribute to enhancing her confidence, so they're synonymous, really.

A plant is the most cliche thing, but a little bit of green has a great effect on happiness. Being at a cubicle all day is not pleasing, but a little life on your desk can give you a little life, too.

Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.

I have a name, I have to take advantage of it.

I think good tailoring and something that's well-made never gets boring or tiring.

I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

I think the job of an original designer is to inspire.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

Coming home to a tidy, pulled-together space will help everything in your life feel the same way.

For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.

With tailored clothing, you can really see where the money went. How it's constructed, how it fits your body - this becomes very apparent in tailored clothing.

Fashion is a weapon that you can use when you need it.

I grew up with a single mother who brought us up. I always look back at my career, and everything that has happened to me is because of the support of women. My mother, my sister, Michelle Obama, Kate Middleton - all these women have believed in my designs and worn them and given me a platform to increase my visibility.

Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

Nobody can shut the door in your face if you own the door.

The truth is that every fanbase has its 'toxic' side, and that's because every fanbase has a huge variety of ages, a huge variety of opinions, and a huge variety of maturities.

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

There's nothing wrong with being pretty.

It took me a while to find myself.

Everything in life is elusive.

Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

My mother always taught me to wear clothes for myself and not to follow trends as trends will end!

I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet.

Everything in life... has to have balance.

For a modern look, hang curtains from the ceiling with a very simple pleat at the top so they will hang straight.

I feel far more empowered, sophisticated, and forward-thinking in flats than in high heels. Especially when I am working and hosting meetings.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

I don't walk around feeling like I'm successful. I feel like I did well.

I decided to work on things that obsess women because women can't resist things like lace, sequins, animal prints and python.

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

Stay small and control it yourself.

For breakfast, I usually have a slice of bread with some homemade jam made from fruit from the garden; the type of jam depends on what particular fruit is being harvested. I learned how to make it from my mother.

We have two kids, so it's a busy house. I want a place where the kids feel comfortable and like they can really live. I'm attracted to clean and modern but also feeling like you can plop yourself onto a couch and cuddle up.

You must, if it's possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It's part of you, of yourself.

More and more women are going online.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

There's a reason good fabrics have a cost. They're done with good quality to last.

Growing up we lived on the beach and in front of our house were all these tide pools. I remember every weekend going down to the tide pools for hours upon hours with my sister Sarah and searching for shells and crabs. It was endless entertainment.

Being your own woman, not cookie cutter - that is the greatest luxury!

The focus of 'Flower' is emotion and to make you feel peaceful.

What's so great about my business is that every day is different than the day prior.

I think when wedding dresses are talked about, every woman has a different set of factors in her mind of what it could be because they've been thinking about it possibly for such a long time.

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.

My goal is for 'Heavy Rain' to leave an imprint in you and change a little bit of who you are and how you see things. Maybe the key characters and key moments will leave a trace in you. If you don't have this ambition as a video-game creator, then maybe you should do something else, because this is what creation and art is about.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

It seems like what happens when we play games is that we go into a psychological state called eustress, or positive stress. It's basically the same as negative stress in the sense that we get our adrenaline up, you know, our breathing rate quickens, our pulse quickens.

I'm not confused about what's happening in fashion, because I follow my own direction and go.

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

I wear mascara sometimes, a little lip gloss.

Luxury is a state of mind.

Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome.

The thing about Uggs is that they're so comfortable. Once you've worn them, you don't want to go back.

Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.