Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Designers - Page 5

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

I've worked since I was 18. I have no trust fund and don't expect anything.

A woman is as young as her knees.

I've known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don't know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.

I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.

I started experimenting with jewelry in my 20s - I was playing around with gemstones and painting things in gold leaf, and it turned into this huge obsession for me, so I launched my first jewelry line, Jade Inc.

I hope that people who don't believe depression is a real thing will stop calling people crazy, because that's dismissive and not a medical diagnosis.

We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both to the messenger's noble mission and gardens as a refuge of peace and tranquility.

Excess is success.

In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.

I can't think without my glasses.

For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.

A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

I was never so directly inspired by fashion. It always came from somewhere else.

The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.

You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion; a 'little black frock' is essential to a woman's wardrobe.

Rock stars love Cuban heels because a lot of them tend to be diminutive. And I've never met a man who doesn't mind having an extra inch or two anywhere on his body.

Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.

The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people.

Everything I do references something that influenced me.

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

I have this mental sickness called creativity.

I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction.

My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film's story, to express the story in some metaphorical way.

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

An athletic man, or whatever you want to call him, will only look good in a very classic suit, a pair of classic jeans, athletic clothes or simply naked. Forget fashion. This is not going to happen, unless you want to look like a Chippendales dancer in designer clothes.

My grandmother Rosita, my mother Angela and I have probably got different styles but we have very similar tastes. For example, I don't find it hard to use colours or wear knits, since it's something that comes to me naturally.

I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. Europe and the U.S. didn't really feel enticing because I knew them too well. So Asia it was. The most beautiful landscapes I had seen in Asia were Sri Lanka and Bali.

The sun doesn't always shine; the wind doesn't always blow. This is why, if we want to rely on renewables, we need intelligent systems that integrate and coordinate different sources of energy at scale so that when one is scarce or unavailable, the others can automatically compensate.

Whatever you put around yourself, you will be the mirror of it. Surround yourself with things you love.

When everything is connected to everything else, for better or for worse, everything matters.

Fabrics and lining make a big difference in the garment. If you're buying an expensive trench coat, and it's lined in something cheap, it doesn't feel as nice.

Sometimes simple accessories are all you need when your dress speaks for itself.

I collect vintage vinyl records.

For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction.

My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis.

Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.

My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.

I can't copy nature.

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.

Wearing a hat is fun; people have a good time when they're wearing a hat.

The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels - this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too.

I don't really buy expensive clothes. I love good bags!

When I met Melania Knauss in 2003, we were both 32 years old and walking the hallways of Vogue. I was working; she was visiting.

But I will add, there's one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot change. It plants a negativity in the head of a designer or the student, and it's a distraction.

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

I find color optimistic and enthusiastic, and I adore it.

Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate.

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

Vintage is my vocabulary... like the notes of a musician.

My mother and father were interested in the arts.