“I don't see myself as a pure fashion designer sending dress after dress down the runway but about wanting those watching my shows to aspire to a certain lifestyle.” ShowsCertainFashionPureDressesLifestyleDesignerAspireFashion DesignerRunway Author:Matthew Williamson
“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
“We, as designers, have a job with so many possibilities and connections. We are connected to so many different portals, from art to movies to music to design. Fashion is always evolving. Actually, the field is huge. I don't think there is another profession that is so open to so many possibilities.” ThinkingArtDifferentJobsFashionDesignFieldsPossibilityHugeConnectionsConnectedProfessionEvolveDesignerPortal Author:Miuccia Prada
“I never looked at magazines before I started modeling. I was 13 or 14 and none of my friends were into magazines. We were into the fashion of the day, though. Designer jeans were really popular - Sasson, Gloria Vanderbilt, Calvin Klein, Jordache. Once I started modeling, I began to learn about these things, and magazines helped me to understand who was who.” FashionMy FriendsMagazinesDesignerJeansModelingGloriaReally PopularVanderbilt Author:Christy Turlington
“We are talking about mutated women, the result of cruel genetic experiments performed by fashion designers so lacking in any sense of human decency that they think nothing of putting their initials on your eyeglass lenses. The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. If a normal woman puts on clothing designed for these unfortunate people, she is quite naturally going to look like Revenge of the Pork Person.” PeopleIfsThinkingHumansLooksPersonsFallCausesResultsTalkingStreetsFashionNormalModelsRevengeExperimentsDesignerClothingsUnfortunateLackingLensesInitialsDecencyFashion DesignerPorkEyeglassesGrateLeading CausesFashion Model Author:Dave Barry
“I've been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother's a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going to do a line and dive into the fashion world.” WorldLongMotherLinesMy OwnPiecesFashionDesignLong TimeDesignerJewelryFashion World Author:Christian Serratos
“Fashion is about affordable luxury ... To succeed, designers need to be affordable, wearable, accessible, and aspirational.” NeedsFashionSucceedLuxuryDesignerAffordable Author:Tommy Hilfiger
“The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur Dior. Dior himself was a gallerist before becoming the revolutionary fashion designer we all know.” KnowsWorldArtWifeFashionBecomingWindowInstanceRevolutionaryDesignerFashion DesignerIntertwinedDior Author:Delphine Arnault
“Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.” PeopleThinkingPersonsDoneHappensCareJobsFashionNormalRelateDesignerFairyTake MeFind MeFashion DesignerAiry Author:Alexander McQueen
“The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.” ThinkingImportantHardCrazyFashionDesignerCollectionsSchedulesTime To Think Author:Azzedine Alaia
“I don't gravitate toward any one designer because I think of fashion as the costume of the everyday woman.” ThinkingFashionEverydayDesignerCostumes Author:Kerry Washington
“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
“People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.” PeopleIfsThinkingImportantDoneArtistAsksProcessFashionPaintingDevelopingAsk MeDesignerArchitectFashion Designer Author:Zaha Hadid
“I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor.” YearsBookWantedActorsFashionDesignSevenDesignerCollectionsSeven YearsFashion DesignerFashion Design Author:Gwendoline Christie
“I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters.” PeopleThinkingArtRealCharacterFictionFashionInspireDirectorsMusicianReal LifeInventionArtisticDesignerFashion DesignerSpirited Author:Marc Jacobs
“Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away...His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion.” TodayTalentFashionDesignerImmortalImmensePassed AwayMcqueenHistory Of Fashion Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly opened new perspectives. Visionary and avant-garde, his creations took their inspiration from both tradition and timeless hyper-modernity.” SometimesInspirationGenerationsFashionCreationPerspectiveGeniusTraditionDesignerTimelessModernityVisionariesProvocativeFashion DesignerHyperAvant GardeNew PerspectiveMcqueen Author:Francois-Henri Pinault
“Don't you think that a lot of designers get into fashion because they have something about themselves that they don't like?” ThinkingFashionDesigner Author:Narciso Rodriguez
“Fashion is very judgmental. It's something where you have to be careful. I have a long way to go before I can be a designer. I'd love to one day, but we'll see.” WayLongI CanFashionOne DayCarefulDesignerBe CarefulLong WayJudgmentalLong Way To Go Author:Sloane Stephens
“I feel like fashion was much more exclusive. There weren't as many parties. There weren't as many social gatherings. It wasn't required that designers have events to lure customers or editors or any of that - it was about a show. If there was a dinner or a party, people would go out after. New York nightlife was about late nights and dancing.” PeopleIfsFeelsShowsNightSocialPartyFashionEventsNew YorkLateDancingDinnerCustomersDesignerEditorsGatheringExclusiveLureLate NightNightlife Author:Roopal Patel
“What we considered to be so much part of our everyday fashion vocabulary today, where we see all these designers restarting with these big houses, was just beginning then [in the 90th].” BigsTodayHouseFashionEverydayDesignerVocabularyBig Houses Author:Roopal Patel
“I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and eventually burnt-out politician, or the owner of a small bistro. But I fear that, without poetry, I would have simply been going through the motions.” PeopleFashionPoliticianSizeComedianDesignerOwnersEarnestFashion DesignerHairdresserStand Up ComedianBurnt OutBistro Author:Denise Duhamel
“I wouldn't mind collaborating with anybody, but I don't want to design anything, I'm not a fashion designer.” WantMindFashionDesignDesignerFashion DesignerCollaborating Author:ASAP Rocky
“Becoming a fashion designer is agreeing with the fact that what you experience or what you see as free is also connected to a system. Does that mean giving up your freedom? I still don't know the answer. There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art.” KnowsGivingKindMeanDoeArtStillsDifferentFactsAnswersPsychologyFashionBecomingSceneGiving UpConnectedDesignerDifferent KindsFashion DesignerYour Freedom Author:Raf Simons
“When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice. I know everybody mentions Azzedine Alaïa, but he's been going for a long time in the system - showing to people, selling to clients - and I think it's admirable how he's transformed it into his own system in a way, but it's still a system.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantLongStillsArtistChoicesFashionLong TimeSellingDesignerTransformedClientsAdmirableFashion Designer Author:Raf Simons
“I received a wonderful email after I spoke at a school from a girl who'd lived in a war zone and endured horrors no human being should suffer, let alone a child. This young lady was fortunate to be bought to Britain and seemed to adjust well, but suddenly found herself falling off the rails and sliding into hell when I chatted to her. In her letter, she told me the difference that I'd made. She's now 20 years old and a fashion designer employing staff and she puts her work ethic down purely to talking to me. It's my most treasured letter.” ShouldYearsHumansWellsChildrenMadeWarSchoolYoungSufferingFallGirlFoundDifferencesHuman BeingsTalkingHellWonderfulFashionHorrorEthicsLettersFortunateDesignerBritainZoneSpokesStaffWork EthicEmailRailFashion DesignerEmployingYoung LadiesTreasuredFalling OffWar Zones Author:Simon Weston
“I went to school for a short period of time to study fashion. I wanted to become a stylist or a designer. I made clothes when I was a teenager that I used to sell online. My label name was "Baby Jesus" - so incredibly stupid, but whatever, I was 17!” MadeWantedSchoolUsedJesusNamesStudyFashionStupidBabyPeriodsClothesSellsLabelsTeenagerDesignerOnlineStylistBaby Jesus Author:Bethany Cosentino
“I put pressure on myself to propose something new - I think it's the minimum that you can do as a fashion designer.” ThinkingCan DoFashionPressureDesignerSomething NewMinimumProposeFashion Designer Author:Nicolas Ghesquiere
“I am always producing work, but there is always a sort of deadline where you have to finish work. I don't do it for a show. In other words, I am not like a fashion designer where I have a, you know - I have to put out the full line or I have to put out the summer line like that.” KnowsShowsLinesFashionSummerDesignerDeadlineFashion Designer Author:Robert Barry
“I know I wasn't allowed to go to fashion school; I can't cut a dress like Galliano, right? But I had enough wherewithal to go to that studio on my first collection and bring Kim, [stylist] Christine Centenera, Ian Connor, Theophilus London, Virgil Abloh...they all came down to [Vetements/Balenciaga designer] Demna Gvasalia's studio that night and hung out.” KnowsFirstsI CanEnoughSchoolNightCuttingFashionDressesStudiosLondonDesignerCollectionsHungHad EnoughKimStylistChristine Author:Kanye West
“I have to say that the identity of a fashion designer is international today.” TodayFashionIdentityInternationalDesignerFashion Designer Author:Sonia Rykiel
“I have no ambivalence about myself wearing make-up or designer clothes but I have an enormous ambivalence about what the fashion world has done to women.” WorldDoneFashionClothesEnormousDesignerAmbivalenceFashion WorldDesigner Clothes Author:Nan Goldin
“I'm frequently introduced as a fashion designer, and I quickly say I'm not, and instantly people are incredibly disappointed and think that I'm some sort of charlatan who's been perpetuating this falsehood.” PeopleThinkingFashionDesignerDisappointedFalsehoodFashion DesignerCharlatansPerpetuating Author:Tim Gunn
“What's important to a fashion designer? It's much more than learning how to make clothes. In fact, that merely makes you a dressmaker. It doesn't make you into a fashion designer.” ImportantFactsFashionClothesDesignerWhat's ImportantFashion Designer Author:Tim Gunn
“I would really think twice about being a fashion designer if I was young right now, especially being an independent fashion designer the way I started it.” IfsThinkingWayYoungFashionRight NowIndependentDesignerFashion DesignerThink Twice Author:Rick Owens
“I'm not a designer who is very interested in baroque or in fantasy or in the fantastic side of fashion. This exists and this is important, but I'm interested in the very real dimensions.” ImportantRealSidesFantasyFashionFantasticDesignerDimensionsBaroque Author:Christophe Lemaire
“I hope people will put aside Tom Ford the fashion designer and think about Tom Ford the filmmaker.” PeopleThinkingFashionFilmmakerDesignerTomsFashion Designer Author:Tom Ford
“I try to make Play Cloths really representative of me and my designers they look at my evolution as an artist and in fashion and they [zero] in to different details. I come into the office some days and they're like, 'What are those?" [I say,] "[These] are Philip Lim...[I'll] have on Philip Lim sweats and they go and put their spin on it.” TryingLooksDifferentPlayArtistFashionEvolutionOfficeDetailsDesignerZeroSweatRepresentativesPhilip Author:Pusha T
“I don't understand the fashion industry and the appeal of it. I understand that there are some people who think it's important to them, and they're designers, they're artists, but there seems to be a disproportionate amount of our culture that's caught up in that and the red carpet stuff. It seems like there's a disproportionate amount of attention placed on that.” PeopleThinkingImportantSeemsArtistCultureStuffAttentionFashionIndustryAmountRedCaughtAppealsDesignerCaught UpCarpetRed CarpetFashion Industry Author:Jim Gaffigan
“In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too, you have all kinds of folks - from flamboyant gay fashion designers and female Air Force pilots to the Taliban. A cross-dressed man used to be the top TV talk show host. It was actually quite radical. So the diversity of these societies is often lost on people.” PeopleMenKindShowsAmericaUsedLostForcePresidentRightsAirFashionTvsGayDiversityFemaleCrossesFolksVicesAll KindsUsed To BeRadicalDesignerHostPilotsPakistanTransTalibanVice PresidentAdvocatingFashion DesignerAir ForceTalk ShowsFlamboyant Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I always wanted to be a fashion designer and I learned costume illustration in high school. That was an incredible high school. It was more like a college. I'm moving more in that direction, just kind of merchandising my name.” KindWantedSchoolMovingNamesFashionCollegeHigh SchoolIncrediblesDesignerCostumesIllustrationFashion DesignerMerchandising Author:Diana Ross
“No one is an inventor in the fashion business. Designers recreate fashion.” FashionDesignerInventor Author:Tommy Hilfiger
“I don't think generally speaking, there are a lot of innovators and inventors. Many of the designers take what exists already and update it or make it relevant for today. But true inventors have never been seen before. Bill Gates is a real inventor. I don't think fashion designers invent anything new. They innovate new ways to make fashion.” ThinkingRealTodayFashionDesignerGatesRelevantInventorFashion Designer Author:Tommy Hilfiger
“My interest in fashion came from my interest in the body as a central cultural figure, not from admiring other designers - but of course I love Mason Martin Margiela, and I love Sybilla.” InterestFashionDesignerAdmiring Author:Hussein Chalayan
“When I look at pictures from when I was younger, I think, "Holy crap, what the hell was I wearing?" I've made it a real mission to fully understand what fashion is all about. I love going to these shows because I love seeing creativity. So when I get to meet these fashion designers, I'm kind of like, "Where did you get the idea to make this? What were you thinking?" Some of that stuff is so crazy and loud.” ThinkingKindRealCreativityHellCrazyFashionHolyDesignerCrapFashion Designer Author:Lewis Hamilton
“The difference between what designers create are you know they're creating a little world every season, you know head to toe, a full look, shoes bags, dresses, the whole thing whereas street fashion is what people are really wearing. There is an element of new. There is an element of previous seasons. There is your own history, you know your sweatshirt from high school and vintage pieces and it's that kind of combination that I find so much more interesting than just the runway, but you know and I love fashion.” PeopleWorldKindSchoolInterestingFashionHigh SchoolDesigner Author:Scott Schuman
“My first girlfriend, when I was about 18, was a fashion designer, and my sister was a fashion designer as well. I've always been into shopping, and I've always been very aesthetic, in a sense.” FashionGirlfriendDesignerMy SisterAestheticFashion Designer Author:Johan Lindeberg
“Simplicity is the base of everything. At the end of the day if you feel good about yourself, you don't need anything. You don't have to depend on the power of a dress to dress you up. You wear dress the dress, it's not the opposite. It's not only a designer, it's not only just fashion, it's a philosophy. It's a lifestyle.” PhilosophyFashionSimplicityLifestyleFeel GoodDesignerAbout Yourself Author:Alessandra Mastronardi
“When I approach a collection, I never think too much about myself, because doing fashion and being a designer, you need to dream. Of course, there's always a part of myself. I'm always wearing what I'm doing. I'm not a party girl, but when I have the opportunity to go out and dance and be crazy for a night, that's the fall/winter collection.” ThinkingDreamNightFallGirlOpportunityPartyCrazyFashionWinterDesignerBeing Crazy Author:Frida Giannini