A Quote by Roberto Cavalli

My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.

Roberto Cavalli

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Roberto Cavalli
Italian - Designer
Born: November 15, 1940

There's a broad range of fashion: knitwear, textiles, journalism.

Louise Wilson

I enjoy fashion photography and textiles, that whole aspect of it. As more of an art form, I like Proenza Schouler. Those guys are really cool because they seem to have an interesting approach to it all.

Gia Coppola

The evolution was always to greater scale and speed. Other countries did that here and there - GB in textiles, Germany in steel - but we went in that direction almost across the board.

Charles R. Morris

The Hewitt sisters were these amazing - both sort of philanthropists and dilettantes who went out and single-handedly collected all of these of-the-moment designs in wallpaper and textiles and in graphic design in order to teach people about design.

Jake Barton

I was at college studying psychology, philosophy, textiles and drama. But because I wasn't one of those all-singing, all-dancing stage-school kids, I just assumed I'd never become an actor.

Kathryn Prescott

I want to combine a business major with studies in clothing and textiles.

Evelyn Ashford

Textiles embody all the dimensions of art: color, innovation, talent.

Stanley Marcus

I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.

Parker Harris

When we exited the textiles business, we paid our bankers and labourers. We must have been the only company to do that.

Ajay Piramal

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

Francisco Costa

I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'

Melissa McCarthy

The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such as mining, smelting, oil- refining, textiles, rubber, building, and even agriculture in respect to fertilizers and food processing.

John Desmond Bernal

Trade allegedly does not foster growth because when it begins, a flood of imports of factory origin destroys the handicraft manufacturing of the less developed country: the models for this are the effects of British exports of textiles and of iron in India and Chile in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Arthur Lewis

My collections are a reflection of my personal style and interests. All the textiles, fabrics and patterns are of my personal choice.

Ashley Purdy

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.