“I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.” ArtNationsBornActingCreativeFashionGrewSkillsPhotographyGrew UpCookingBritishDecadesBritish HistoryArt And Music Author:Heston Blumenthal
“I’ve spent some time working with a non-Italian designer, I’ve been helping him organize fashion shows, the advertising, also helping with the creative part. But the great part about this work is that I am no one!” HelpingShowsCreativeFashionAdvertisingDesignerItalianOrganizeFashion Show Author:Allegra Versace
“Fashion goes beyond fabric; it is the attempt to manifest art on a breathing canvas. I am very excited to collaborate with the artistic community as we celebrate this diversity of creative vision.” ArtCommunityVisionCreativeFashionDiversityExcitedCelebrateArtisticBreathingManifestFabricCanvasCreative Vision Author:David Dixon
“The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which leap into momentary existence in great cyclotrons, only to vanish again like infinitesimal ghosts.” MenMindExistenceCreativeFashionElementsGhostMysteriousLeapParticlesMomentary Author:Loren Eiseley
“The people who work in the fashion industry and the people who work in the film industry have a lot in common. They're very creative. Their eye is very aesthetic.” PeopleEyeFilmCommonCreativeFashionIndustryAestheticFilm IndustryFashion Industry Author:Gal Gadot
“The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion.” AmericaLeaderCreativeFashionFieldsVariousDesignerCouncilNeuroticFashion Designer Author:Oscar de la Renta
“When you are tiny like me and it's hard to find clothes that fit you get really creative! I do love fashion though, and it's so fun to play with different things.” DifferentHardPlayFunCreativeFashionFitClothesTinyLike MeDifferent ThingsGet RealLove Fashion Author:Lizzie Velasquez
“There are not many designers who are truly creative and literate. Most are self-indulgent, illiterate, fashion-mongering, service people trying to bridge a message between a product and an audience.” PeopleTryingSelfAudienceCreativeFashionProductsMessagesBridgesDesignerIlliterateSelf Indulgent Author:Ivan Chermayeff
“The fashion industry has an enormous amount to offer in what we do in industrial design because fashion is fast, fashion has its finger on the pulse. There are very few creative industries that work on that rhythm.” CreativeFashionDesignIndustryAmountOffersFingersEnormousRhythmPulseFashion IndustryIndustrial DesignCreative Industries Author:Marc Newson
“I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me.” LittlesArtTwoThreeCreativeFashionDesignRussiaDesignerEndeavorLayersJacketsDollsSleevesFashion Designer Author:Tom Ford
“As far back as I can remember, I had an interest in fashion. I used to go to sleepaway camp, and they'd provide a list of things that you had to bring, and I always wanted to be a bit more creative than the list allowed. Like, if they required chinos, I wanted to hand-paint them.” IfsI CanHandsWantedRememberUsedBitsInterestCreativeFashionPaintListsCamps Author:Marc Jacobs
“When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an inch and down an inch, changing it from one shade of red to another shade of red. So it's the same as any creative process. The result is what we see, but the process is really labor intensive and work.” KnowsShowsProcessResultsCreativeMinutesFashionMonthsSixRedLaborSevenShadeInchesCreative ProcessSix MonthsTediousFashion Show Author:Marc Jacobs
“I worked at a bunch of other salons, and at one, this girl was going out to do a photo shoot for a women's magazine and brought me along to assist her. I remember going on that shoot and thinking, "God, this is great. It's creative, and you get to work with all of these other creative people." At that point I decided that hair would be my in to fashion and all the things I thought I would enjoy - and did enjoy.” PeopleThinkingWould BeRememberGirlEnjoyCreativeFashionHairDecidedBunchMagazinesGoing OutCreative PeopleThis GirlPhoto ShootsSalonsThinking God Author:Guido Palau
“The fashion industry is a free world, with creative codes that can be hardly considered sometimes, but it's also up to women to create their own style, and own trend.” WorldSometimesCreativeFashionStyleIndustryCodeTrendsFashion IndustryFree World Author:Sonia Rykiel
“The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.” WayStillsReasonArtistCertainHateSupportCreativeFashionAmountInvolvedIntegrityI HatePaidPhotographer Author:David Bailey
“The toughest parts of the shooting schedule for me are the days between working, when you've nothing to do but wait. There is only so much time you can spend on a script before it becomes so rehearsed that your performance becomes rigid and immovable on the day of, so one has to occupy one's time in some fashion. For me, those interim days are usually spent exercising, exploring, learning to cook something edible, and working on my own creative endeavors.” WaitingCreativeFashionExerciseExploring Author:Bryce Pinkham
“I worked at a bunch of salons, and at one, a girl was going out to do a photo shoot for a women's magazine and brought me along to assist her. I remember going on that shoot and thinking, "God, this is great. It's creative, and you get to work with all of these other creative people." At that point I decided that hair would be my in to fashion and all the things I thought I would enjoy - and did enjoy.” PeopleThinkingRememberGirlEnjoyCreativeFashionCreative People Author:Guido Palau