Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Designers - Page 20

My parents are famously not part of the gestalt of the fashion industry.

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

I love to cook and entertain.

St. Benedict said to take care of your mind, body and soul. I swim for an hour every morning, do 15 minutes of Tibetan stretching and breathing exercises, and play soccer with friends four or more nights a week.

I like the pause that tea allows.

I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.

We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.

Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be.

The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.

Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.

Women are more open to trying on a new personality every season; they can go from goth to bombshell to librarian, whatever.

I've been accused of being a shell designer - you start with a machine and enclose it. But in many cases, the shell is essential. A locomotive without a shell would be nonfunctional.

If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.

I believe most things can be said in a few lines.

Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.

The public may admire a corporation for its impressive size. Who in the United States doesn't? But when a business, however gigantic, gets smug enough to believe that it is sufficient only to match competition on trivial points instead of leading competition in valid matters, that business is becoming vulnerable to public disfavor.

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

I really like doing good work and working with good people - that's the thing that drives me.

While I'm confident in Obsidian being able to deliver a quality title, it only takes one other Kickstarter developer to ruin things for everyone else and cast doubt on the donation process going forward.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.

Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.

When I was little, I just was very tuned in to the functionality and aesthetics of things around me.

The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy.

I have always wanted to own a homemade ice cream shop!

Milan is a true metropolis: strong and fearless but welcoming, too. Little by little, I came to realize that I could become someone here.

If you're on the fence about speaking your truth or sharing your world with a greater audience, don't be. We need each other badly.

If I give you the right conditions to work, and I put you in a beautiful place, where you feel a little bit better about yourself because you know your work is being used for something greater than producing a profit, maybe you will get more creative; maybe you will want to work more.

Games can be art, and they can be significant and all the glorified things that we want them to be. But if you ask a kid if their toys are important, they'll say 'yes,' and 'Please don't take them away.'

The worst thing that can happen is if you're stuck within a bubble and you think that is what life is all about. It's great to see other people and hear from people of different ages and opinions.

I love the challenge of taking colors that are totally disparate and making them work together in an interesting way.

I do go back to Brazil once a year. I miss my family.

I think of my customer as a woman who wants to look beautiful and be able to walk.

Fabrics such as raw silk, velvet, shimmer, satin and georgette work well for the wedding season.

One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.

You can't be all things to all people.

If you continue to act like an artist as you get older, you'll increasingly feel pressure. People will question your actions.

My design process never starts or finishes. I am always hoping to find something through the mere act of living my daily life. I do not work from a desk and do not have an exact starting point for any collection.

In Italy there is a supreme know-how and a desire to achieve that doesn't really exist anywhere else. You can't make clothes like that in America, because it's just not in the tradition.

Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.

When creativity melds together with global issues, I believe you can bring the world together.

The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.

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.

Loewe should be a cultural brand.

I don't think that artificial intelligence means doomsday, and I think many new jobs will be created, too. However, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that these new types of jobs will favor low-income demographics. We need to address the needs of those who will be left out of the new job market.

Our business is as good as any high-end designer. We do good because we make good things.

The best thing about being a business owner is that you get to run your own schedule.

Integrity is the distinctive Santoni trait. Their attention for the longevity of good product matches the widely-felt need for fashion that's less superficial and volatile.

You don't change your style by changing your bag. You change it with your clothes.

Gaiety is one of the most important elements I brought to fashion. I brought it through color.

I love a modern suit paired with a polo or cotton T-shirt... and then paired with leather sneakers, or cashmere joggers with a tailored blazer and a sleeveless puffer vest to get the ultimate informal and formal combination.

We've pitched and even begun development on a number of fantasy worlds that have never seen the light of day. All of those worlds... It's soul-crushing to see them sputter out, one by one. Lost. Like tears. In rain.

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.

A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.