“I think designers are starting to realize that we're all in the same industry. We're making clothes - we aren't saving the world. I'm not saying that designers aren't artists, but at the end of the day, we make clothes.” ThinkingWorldEndsArtistRealizingIndustryClothesStartingSavingDesignerThe End Of The DaySave The World Author:Joseph Altuzarra
“I have fashion designers that I definitely respect. After working for a few years in the industry, you want to branch out and do your own thing and I think that's something that has always been important to me is strengthening the brand and just sticking to "this is who we are, this is our identity, this is who we're going to be". I definitely respect other designers but I don't necessarily have one that I look up to.” ThinkingWantYearsLooksImportantFashionIdentityIndustryBrandsDesignerBranchesLook UpWho We AreRespecting OthersStrengtheningFashion Designer Author:Lauren Conrad
“I want to try and wear as many Australian designers as I can because I'd like to support my Australian colleagues in the industry as well as find things that are eco-friendly. I love the green concept of wearing more sustainable garments at events.” WantTryingWellsI CanSupportEventsIndustryConceptsGreenDesignerFriendlyColleaguesAustralianGarmentsEcoEco Friendly Author:Lucy Fry
“Designers have a responsibility to show the future as they want it to be - or at least as it can be, not just the way an industry wants it to be.” WayWantShowsResponsibilityIndustryDesigner Author:Yves Behar
“When I walk for a designer, I walk the ramp as Vijender Singh, the boxer. I believe that by doing so, boxing will at least, in some way, get promoted in our entertainment industry. Plus, if cricketers can, why can't I?” IfsWayBelieveI BelieveWalksIndustryEntertainmentDesignerBoxingPlusBoxersEntertainment IndustryCricketersRampSingh Author:Vijender Singh
“Over 95% of the designers who have ever lived are alive today. Together, we have the power to define what professionalism in the communications industry will be about: helping increase market share or helping repair the World.” WorldHelpingTodayTogetherAliveShareCommunicationIndustryIncreaseDesignerLive For TodayProfessionalism Author:David Berman
“Detroit is an urban hell. But even in this city of the dying auto industry, there is reason to hope, if they manage to combine the creative forces of designers and other intellectual "suppliers" in other ways.” IfsWayReasonForceCitiesHellCreativeDyingIndustryIntellectualManageDesignerUrbanDetroitSuppliersAuto Industry Author:Charles Landry
“There are amazing designers like Riccardo Tisci (whom I consider like my godfather in the industry), who are aware that beauty isn't defined by being just one thing or perceived in a single way. Today we hear people's voices, thanks to social media, and that can change things. This change is happening right now!” PeopleWayTodaySocialVoiceOne ThingMediaIndustryRight NowHappeningsSocial MediaThanksDefinedDesignerJust One Author:Maria Borges
“No one is calling any of these designers racist. The act itself is racist. There were more black models working in the Seventies than there are in 2013. This a time when silence is not acceptable at all. If the conversation cannot be had publicly in our industry, then there is something inherently wrong.” IfsBlackSilenceIndustryCallingConversationModelsDesignerRacistAcceptableSilence IsSeventies Author:Iman Abdulmajid
“Even though the industry is very big and there's lots of money, when it gets down to it, whether it's a photographer or a designer, as well as a stylist or makeup artist, you're really only working with maybe four or five people on a project. It's all quite small and intimate.” PeopleWellsBigsArtistFiveFourIndustryProjectsPhotographerIntimateDesignerMakeupLots Of MoneyStylistMakeup Artist Author:Guido Palau
“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