designer Quotes

It's important to create what you desire to, not what people expect you to.

• 175
• creativity

My passion for music has always inspired my designs.

• 17
• designs

Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!

• 15
• positive

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

• 10
• Home

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

• 9
• business

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

• 8
• asks

Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.

• 5
• bit

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

• 5
• Art

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.

• 4
• asked

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

• 4
• designer

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

• 4
• appeal

You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season.

• 4
• fashionable

When in doubt, wear red.

• 4
• Fashion

The client is not always right.

• 3
• client

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

• 3
• original

Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.

• 3
• consumer

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

• 3
• design

The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.

• 3
• aware

The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

• 3
• look

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

• 3
• Wealth

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

• 3
• Wealth

Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.

• 2
• alone

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.

• 2
• able

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

• 2
• by-product

Design is everything. Everything!

• 2
• design

Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.

• 2
• final

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.

• 2
• design

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

• 2
• belong

I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together.

• 2
• brought

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.

• 2
• become

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

• 2
• connections

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

• 2
• art

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

• 2
• art

Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.

• 2
• business

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

• 2
• Fashion

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

• 1
• designer

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

• 1
• fashion

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

• 1
• clothes

But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.

• 1
• climbing

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

• 1
• create

But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

• 1
• original

We all look for lost time.

• 1
• look

To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.

• 1
• accessory

It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.

• 1
• aesthetic

A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

• 1
• clothes

What about David Bowie? He's a sexy creature.

• 1
• bowie

I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.

• 1
• color

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

• 1
• complete

Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes.

• 1
• disciplined

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

• 1
• admitted