Top 137 Fabrics Quotes & Sayings

What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.

When a man's suit fits, when the construction is beautiful, when the sewing and fabrics are there... in the end, you'll look the best in it.

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

Over the years, I've learned that you can have fun with the fabrics and other elements, but if it's not tailored right, you'll blow it.

I have a different experience. My father was a small-businessman. He worked really hard. He printed drapery fabrics on long tables, where he pulled out those fabrics and he went down with a silkscreen and dumped the paint in and took the squeegee and kept going.

I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics.

I love playing around with vintage fabrics and lace.

Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living.

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

I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes.

Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics

My summer time tip is to wear shorts and light shirts; everything in summery fabrics such as linen and cotton. And don't think about work.

I love Japanese design and fabrics. I also love people who make clothes for mass consumption but do it well and cleverly.

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.

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.

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

Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

My label is largely about fabrics; print is definitely not my point of difference!

The big difference between couture and ready-to-wear is not design. It is the fabrics, the handwork, and the fittings. The act of creation is the same.

I wear things that kind of can look good for extended periods of time - fabrics that don't wrinkle, things that don't stain very easily.

The fabrics I've used in my work are satin and sateen. Sateen is very glossy and far from luxurious. Bright solid colors with too much sheen seem gaudy, pathetic and nostalgia-inducing. Such fabrics are reminiscent of the power of chaos in a shaman's space: overabundant offerings of food on alters, kitschy decorations, provocative shades, vigorous dancing, plaintive singing, absurd fits of crying and laughing, and self-abandonment.

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.

I loved the idea that people dressed up to go to the gardens. Our work always has a utility point of view at its heartbeat and then other things come around it, so it really allowed us to use denims and suedes and gauzes, and those sorts of hard-working fabrics - workwear fabrics - and then contrast them with crepe de chine, beautiful florals and big jewelry.

I'm quite tactile, so I like fabrics that feel good. I try to avoid fabrics that crease - especially with my son. When you have a child, that's important. A great pair of a jeans, a t-shirt and some loafers, that's what I always wear.

Fashion always was a huge interest of mine. I love beautiful clothes. I appreciate fine beading and lovely fabrics.

As a designer I like to work with fabrics that don't bleed. That's why I avoid all animal skins.

I buy the best fabrics from small mills in Italy. That is the basis for my clothes.

I always think about how Chaka Khan used to take suede, all these classic fabrics, and then make them very movable. She's my everything!

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

Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

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

You can go on Nike's website and choose exactly what fabrics and colours and shapes you want your sneakers to come in.

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

I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics, blankets, towels, hardware, plates.

The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.

I love nice fabrics and texture like velvet and silk, and have a special Moroccan corner in my house to curl up and read in.

Growing up in Beirut, I used to go to the souks with my mother to buy fabrics... I understood fashion at an early age, and my first designs were when I was five.

I tend to gravitate towards neutrals in my home but also love finding interesting fabrics or pieces that add a pop of color.

If I'm wearing the wrong clothes I can't think. It sounds so weird but it just has to be the right fabrics and like the right feeling on my body.

Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.

Choose paintings, sculptures, realistic or abstract or animal images woven into fabrics, rather than a faux zebra rug or a sullied Lion's head on the wall.

I am always trying to find fabrics that are more friendly to the environment - working with Virgin Atlantic, they managed to research into this and find more eco fabrics.

With Whitney Eve, I really wanted to dress everyday girls. I wanted it to be a more sophisticated than just casualwear, but be comfortable at the same time. All the fabrics are easy fabrics, they can be dressed up or dressed down.

If space is a fabric, then of course fabrics can have ripples, which we have now seen directly. But fabrics can also rip. Then the question is what happens when the fabric of space and time is ripped by a black hole?

I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.

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 don't think I am avant-garde. I made a lot of creations and created harmony with my fabrics, but I was not like Balenciaga, for example, although he was, of course, a great inspiration.

My clients can choose their own colours and fabrics to have something unique in their wardrobes.

For me, the most important consideration is to choose attire that is functional, but looks stylish too. That means going for colors that are understated and use smart fabrics.

In designing my bridal collections, I love mixing luxe fabrics, which give the most beautiful texture and dimension to my creations.

When we started, there was lots of formalwear made with quality fabrics, but Loro Piana's innovation was to use these in casualwear, too.

I am constantly looking to push boundaries with materials, bring in new weights, and work in fabrics unexpectedly.

It's just a matter of finding the styles, finding the fabrics, shapes, that accentuate your own body. You can't be altered, but the clothes can.

Beautiful fabrics last; synthetics don't. Certain fabrics, such as linen or cotton, develop their own character over time.

Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

Uniqlo as a company has always developed new fabrics and is always trying to be innovative. The design is simple, so the fabric is important.

Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics.

I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and corsets and have adventures riding horses with lots of blood and action!