“I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I'm part of the fashion industry. But that's never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.” ChildrenWantedGirlStageFashionDesignIndustryClothesShoesMy ThoughtsFashion Industry Author:Christian Louboutin
“I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.” PersonsWantedFashionDesignerFashion DesignerBusiness Person Author:Anna Sui
“I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.” AgeWantedFashionColorDesignerFabricFashion DesignerPalette Author:Catherine Malandrino
“I’ve always been inspired by women, and my mission was to inspire women. I always wanted to become a certain kind of woman and I became that woman through fashion. It was a dialogue. I would see that the wrap dress made those women confident, and made them act with confidence.” KindMadeWantedCertainFashionInspireDressesInspiredMissionsDialogueWrapsInspire Women Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“Basically, the UBR is a relic of an earlier vision for UDDI. The original vision for UDDI was as a standard that would help companies conduct business with each other in an automated fashion. The idea was that companies could publish how they wanted to interact, and other companies could find that information and use it to establish a relationship.” IdeasHelpingUseWantedCompanyVisionFashionInformationStandardsOriginalsPublishRelics Author:Michael Bloomberg
“You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.” ThinkingWantedFashionDesignerFashion DesignerFashion Design Author:Jean Paul Gaultier
“I wanted to be funny for people who didn't care about fashion at all, to just to kind of exist as a silly character.” PeopleKindCharacterCareWantedFunnyFashionSilly Author:Ben Stiller
“I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.” IfsWantWritingWantedJobsSongFashionSingingGood JobIconsFashion Icon Author:Ellie Goulding
“It was my idea that if you started any kind of business, you should begin somewhere near where you hoped to end. In other words, if I wanted to make really good clothes to order, I would start out making good, and therefore expensive, clothes to order. If I started making inexpensive clothes, I thought probably I'd die making them.” IfsShouldKindIdeasEndsWantedOrderDiesFashionClothesExpensiveInexpensiveExpensive Clothes Author:Elizabeth Hawes
“My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.” WantChildrenWantedMotherCrazyFashionBrotherMarriedIndependentMy BrotherWant MeBeing MarriedMarried With ChildrenCrazy LifeFashion Business Author:Donatella Versace
“I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.” WantedSchoolSpeakFashionNew YorkSpeak English Author:Francisco Costa
“I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.” KnowsWantedFashionInvolvedDesigner Author:Francisco Costa
“I am excited by this collaboration: this is the first time H&M involves a Fashion Director in a special project. This is the sign of an important evolution in fashion, and I am both thrilled and humbled to be the one chosen to lead it. I wanted to create precious accessories that are impossible to find. As a stylist I know accessorization is essential: it is the personal touch to any outfit. With these pieces everybody can have fun, turning an ordinary day into a fantastic fashion day” KnowsFirstsImportantWantedFunPiecesImpossibleSpecialFashionEvolutionDirectorsEssentialsProjectsOrdinaryFirst TimeExcitedChosenFantasticHaving FunCollaborationAccessoriesStylistOrdinary DaysPersonal Touch Author:Anna Dello Russo
“When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends.” Has BeensArtWantedCultureFashionPopsBarsArtisticFortunateLegendsPartnershipCandyDylanPop CulturePioneersArt And MusicCandy Bar Author:Dylan Lauren
“I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I just have to remember that as long as I'm doing it I'm living the dream.” LongDreamWantedRememberFashionDesignerFashion DesignerLiving The Dream Author:Marc Jacobs
“For some reason, everyone says "fashion is responsible for skinny models." I don't believe that myself. I believe consumers dictate commercial success and trends in a capitalistic society. So I believe if consumers wanted to see - like, who decided that Barney the Dinosaur was going to be a million-dollar industry?” IfsBelieveReasonWantedI BelieveMillionsFashionIndustryModelsDecidedResponsibleDollarsDon't BelieveConsumersTrendsSkinnyMillion DollarsDinosaurs Author:Kelly Cutrone
“Ultimately I think I learned a lot from my mother - the way she used fashion to make herself feel better; it was a tool she had and she used it very well. Fashion for her wasn't so far as an escape, but certainly a time where she would sit on her own and prepare what she wanted to wear the next day - it turned into bit of a ritual.” ThinkingWayFeelsWellsWantedUsedMotherNextBitsFashionToolsRitualFeel BetterNext Day Author:Matthew Williamson
“I knew I wanted to be successful in some form or fashion. My first dreams and aspirations of being successful was probably that I wanted to be a successful drug dealer. I wanted to be Nino Brown. That was my first dream.” FirstsDreamWantedFormSuccessfulFashionDrugAspirationBeing SuccessfulBrownDealerDrug DealersDreams And Aspirations Author:Ja Rule
“Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.” ArtWantedFilmCommunityFashionBunchBlogsFilm And Music Author:Tavi Gevinson
“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
“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
“I love all the old pictures - of spanking and Bettie Page and corsets. But you can't do spanking in fashion, so I wanted to do a project where I could really let go and get girls who also love those things.” WantedGirlFashionLetting GoProjectsPagesSpankingCorsetsGet A GirlOld Picture Author:Ellen von Unwerth
“I've always liked fashion but maybe not to the point that I was so sick about it that I wanted to draw my own things.” WantedMy OwnFashionDrawsSickSo Sick Author:K-Maro
“I really loved when Prada Sport came into fashion, which kind of created all the nylon which she had for quite some time. You also wanted a Prada bag, you wanted a Prada shoe, not that you don't today, but that craze for Prada accessories was really big. It was a really big deal.” KindBigsTodayWantedSportsDealsFashionShoesBagsBig DealAccessoriesCrazePradaNylon Author:Roopal Patel
“Growing up, I wanted to be a sports commentator. Then my aunt introduced me to the fashion industry, and everything sort of fell into place.” WantedSportsGrowing UpGrowingFashionIndustryAuntCommentatorsFashion Industry Author:Olivia Palermo
“I've always wanted to do things differently, and if one person or ten people are doing the same, then I want to do it differently. I love to travel, I love art, I love fashion. I love going to great restaurants and trying different things. Different cultures are inspiring to me.” PeopleIfsWantTryingPersonsArtDifferentWantedCultureFashionTenRestaurantsDifferent ThingsDifferent CulturesLove FashionI Love FashionTrying Different ThingsGreat Restaurants Author:Molly Sims
“The very, very first thing that I wanted was to make a living - be independent and have a job. It might have come later, that kind of reaction to the boringness of fashion.” FirstsKindMightWantedJobsFashionIndependentReactions Author:Rei Kawakubo
“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
“Stevie Nicks has always been my fashion icon, so I wanted to blend her infamous witchy style with the 90s valley girl theme that I was so entranced by as a young girl.” WantedYoungGirlFashionStyleThemeValleysIconsInfamousFashion IconValley Girl Author:Bethany Cosentino
“I didn't know I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was always interested in fashion and imagery in a very naive way, but it was always an attraction, like glitter balls.” KnowsWayWantedFashionBallsAttractionNaiveImageryGlitterHairdresser Author:Guido Palau
“Fashion was a very insider industry then - it was very closed. So I didn't really know what I wanted to do.” KnowsWantedFashionIndustryInsiders Author:Guido Palau
“I never wanted to get into high end in Colombia - the percentage of people who can afford it is very small, and they can shop abroad anyway. It's just not what I had in mind. I wanted to bring international fashion to as many people here as possible, who don't usually get exposed to such styles.” PeopleMindEndsWantedFashionStyleInternationalShopsExposedPercentagesColombia Author:Esteban Cortazar
“I always wanted to be a part of Nicolas Winding Refn world, but knew he would never make a movie that has a teenage girl as a lead. Obviously not. Then I heard he was and it was in the fashion world. What? Just combining what we think of [with Refn] - masculinity and violence - in his films with that world was so interesting to me.” ThinkingWorldWantedFilmGirlInterestingViolenceHeardFashionTeenageMasculinityCombiningTeenage GirlFashion World Author:Elle Fanning
“I have always wanted to branch off and become a fashion guru. I want to share my artistic views with the world.” WorldWantWantedViewsShareFashionArtisticBranchesGuru Author:A. J. McLean
“I'm based in Atlanta so there weren't a lot of people to talk to about fashion because no one was really doing it on the scale that I wanted to do it. I had to do a lot of research on my own.” PeopleWantedMy OwnFashionResearchScalesAtlanta Author:Fred Foster
“I did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids and raise them!” WorldKidsWantedCareersPlansFashionTenRaisesFashion World Author:Sonia Rykiel
“I like comfortable clothes. Most men in the world wear T-shirts every day and jeans. I wanted to always put my street style to the high fashion looks and just make it comfortable and make it look stylish.” MenWorldLooksWantedStreetsFashionStyleComfortableClothesShirtsJeansT ShirtStylishHigh Fashion Author:Tyga
“Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.” PeopleKnowsWantedArtistFashionNewsHappeningsWesternExtraordinaryEastChocolateCandyBerlinEast Berlin Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“That's what I tried to create, even though they are new pieces. I wanted them to feel like very special pieces that you can hold on to for a long time. I didn't want them to be too high fashion, I wanted them to be more timeless.” WantFeelsLongWantedPiecesSpecialFashionLong TimeTimelessHigh Fashion Author:Julia Restoin Roitfeld
“When I started in the league, I went to a tailor and told him I wanted long t-shirts. But they were like, "You know, you don't know what the trend is." I was like, "Look dog, I don't care about trends or your fashion sense. If I'm going to pay you money, this is where the shirt is going to end."” IfsKnowsLooksLongEndsCareWantedPayDogFashionLike YouDon't CareI Don't CareLeagueShirtsTrendsT ShirtTailors Author:Iman Shumpert
“In Paris, I didn't want to be friends with people in fashion. I wanted to get into a philosophical society where all the thinking men were.” PeopleThinkingMenWantWantedFashionPhilosophicalParisThinking Man Author:Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
“[Princess Margaret] was loud, an extrovert, an exhibitionist, loved fashion, loved color, loved music, loved drama, loved the theater, wanted to be a ballerina or actress, was always the little one putting on the school plays, and [princess] Elizabeth reluctantly did it and got stage fright.” LittlesPlayWantedSchoolStageFashionColorDramaTheaterActressesLoudPrincessFrightBallerinaExtrovertsStage FrightSchool PlaysExhibitionist Author:Vanessa Kirby
“I thought about how to film something, how to take pictures of it and how to mix it all together. And I was getting that through Patti [Smith] - because she takes pictures, performs, writes; she does so many things, and that was a big inspiration to me. It helped me realized that I'm not just a fashion photographer. I wanted to do all these other artistic things as well, and during filming my mind opened up to those possibilities.” WritingMindWellsDoeBigsInspirationWantedTogetherFilmFashionPossibilityPhotographerArtistic Author:Steven Sebring
“When I think back to my influences and icons musically, they were my icons musically because, for example, I would look at Rakim and be like man he said the freshest things and then I look at him and he would have on the pair of Nikes that I wanted and I'm like, "ma' please!" It was everything. Now, I sort of feel like if you are fresh then your music doesn't have to be that good because people are so keyed into the fashion. That's just the times I guess.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenFeelsLooksSaidWantedInfluenceFashionExamplePleasePairsIconsNike Author:Pusha T
“There were so many things associated with it in terms of music and fashion, and a different way of thinking that, for me, skateboarding represented so much of what I wanted to do with my life at an early age.” ThinkingWayDifferentAgeWantedTermFashionDifferent WaysWay Of ThinkingSkateboarding Author:Tony Hawk
“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
“As someone who is obsessed with fashion, I personally own non-vegan materials and am very open about that. I don't think it's right to pretend to be someone you're not to get sales. People know me on a real level because of how open I am in my videos. It was a simple choice: I didn't want to exclude anyone, that wasn't fair. I wanted EVERY customer to be able to wear my art. And it's morally right. End of story.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantArtRealEndsStoriesAbleWantedChoicesSimpleLevelsFashionMaterialsFairsCustomersVideoObsessedVeganKnow MeSales People Author:Jeffree Star