Designer Quotes

Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty

There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.

Elegance is not catching somebody's eyes, it's staying in somebody's memory

Individuality will always be one of the conditions of real elegance

Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money.

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

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.

Deep in every heart slumbers a dream and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess

Good design is a matter of discipline.

It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.

You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.

Elegance doesn’t mean being noticed, it means being remembered

Good design is as little design as possible.

Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

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

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.

Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show.

You can reach timelessness if you look for the essence of things and not the appearance. The appearance is transitory — the appearance is fashion, the appearance is trendiness — but the essence is timeless.

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

Real woman should be capricious.

Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

I always believe that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

What's behind you doesn't matter.

If you can design one thing, you can design everything.

I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.

Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.

Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win.

Many of the customers here are traveling all over the world so they need multiple types of clothes. That's one thing about Urban Zen - it is seasonless and it is timeless. So it's not about the fashion of a moment saying, "I have to have it now." It's something that you become a part of...sort of like a sari.

Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion, Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever.

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

It is not money that makes you well dressed: it is understanding.

You do design because you feel it inside;

you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.

The difference between style and fashion is quality.

A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it's not to be exposed.

Elegance is not about being noticed, it's about being remembered.

Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

No one remembers who took second place and that will neverbe me.

Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.

Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness.

It gives you self-confidence, always.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

Dressing well is a form of good manners.

Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.

Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.

The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.

Design is thinking made visual.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

You've got to know the rules to break them.

That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

You can have whatever you want if you dress for it.

To feel like a woman, wear heels, to feel like a goddess, wear five inches.

Death will destroy my body, but my creatures will keep on living ever after, in the years to come.