Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Designers - Page 19

It's a Japanese way of thinking, that I give value for my merchandise. So I don't want to sell unnecessarily expensive dresses and make just 10 or 20 and then feel satisfied. I want to design for real women who can afford my dresses.

People want to imagine that I have this amazing life. That I never change nappies, unload the dishwasher or have to wait in for the plumber, and that's OK, but the reality is I do do all these things!

A lot of young girls don't realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite math skills and a vast knowledge of all things tech to work in games, and haven't thought about avenues like design, producing, art, writing or composing.

Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.

How can you live the high life if you do not wear high heels? I don't understand why women wear these ballet pumps. They are only good if you walk like a ballet dancer, and only ballet dancers do that.

That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models.

I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I'm not interested in just putting clothes in stores.

I remember, as a kid, riding in the back of my dad's old Saab 95 in Denmark. We were on the highway, and suddenly this silver Maserati Bora came upon us, then passed. At the time, to me, this car looked like a spaceship.

I've taken a lot of risks through the years, but I always followed my instincts and always explored new opportunities. The biggest reward has been having an idea and being able to make it a reality. My passions always lead the way - travel and adventure, fitness, art, and home.

North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.

I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.

Show some originality and never wear one designer head to toe.

People who read on holiday always have a better time because it's total escapism, both physically and mentally.

Don't take things too seriously.

Coco Chanel hated me. I can understand why.

Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.

I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.

I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.

It's difficult when people seem to dislike you only because you've found success with something.

By definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it.

I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

I'm always inspired by all of my friends. I aspire to make clothes that my friends would want to wear, that they would gravitate towards anyway.

Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.

I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves through the things we own. I don't believe in trends. I believe in collecting things that you connect with. We should surround ourselves with things we care about, that have meaning.

I promised myself: Before your 18th birthday, you're going to be at Jean Paul Gaultier. And it worked. I was hired.

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

Many of us struggle with ideas that come to our head from our self-identification.

I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm subjecting myself to a scheme.

The first cause of waste is probably even buried in our DNA. Human beings have a need for maintaining consistency of the apperceptive mass. What does that mean? What it means is, for every perception we have, it needs to tally with the one like it before, or we don't have continuity, and we become a little bit disoriented.

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.

My favorite thing about Taiwan is the food.

I think if you're really good at what you do, you can see outside the box.

I never met a stripe I didn't like.

Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes.

People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

Being feminine in the way you dress doesn't have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career.

I try to take care of myself, and I lead a healthy lifestyle.

Imagine if you're playing at home and your girlfriend is badgering you all the time not to play. Wouldn't it be great to have a game you could play with her? Because then you can carry on playing the game and not get beaten up for it.

I'm into mellow dates with really good food.

I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup can make me feel so enthusiastic about beauty. That one good, magical moment can give me enough to create other things like the teardrop earring or necklace.

Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

I always wanted to design for films.

Either it works or it doesn't.

Don't worry about what's cool and what's not cool. Authenticity is what's cool.

The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, meaningful environment, not about fashion or what's in or what's out. This is not an easy job.

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

I am a maker of useful things.

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

We're creating a brand image which didn't exist in the beginning, and I want to grow that. And in the way that the clothes and services we offer are a luxurious niche, I want to be doing that with accessories.

I believe getting rid of the divide between men and women will truly establish what it is to be equal. Fashion is increasingly acting as a weapon of change, inspiring ideas that blur that division, albeit in a subliminal manner.

I'm not a typical couturier, although I really respect them.

I would advise women not to be shy about admitting they've had Botox - it just shows you want to look your best, and there's nothing wrong with that.