“A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.” MenGivingMysteryCreatingModelsAccomplishDrawingDesignerAnother ManRefinedSculptorsArtisans Book:Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume Source: Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume
“Intuition, if you are fashion designer is really the key to everything. I just really have a feeling it's the right moment in time to create a new business model. Obviously I have facts and figures that could back that up. It isn't a gamble; it's a calculated risk.” IfsMomentsFactsFeelingsRiskFashionFiguresKeysModelsIntuitionDesignerGambleMoments In TimeFashion DesignerBusiness ModelsRight MomentNew BusinessCalculated Risk Author:Monita Rajpal
“The main thing that 99designs is about is choice. Its a fantastic model that eliminates risk for small business owners and puts designers on equal footing.” ChoicesRiskEqualModelsFantasticDesignerOwnersSmall BusinessBusiness OwnersSmall Business Owners Author:Matt Mickiewicz
“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
“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
“I met designers that are in the business for ten years in the movies, and their biggest complaint is things don't look anything like they were designed. Look at my drawing! But nobody ever sees the drawing, that's the thing. So I knew right from the beginning that I would design everything in 3D on my computer, and those models literally went to the machines. So every little radius on most of the vehicles you see there, I built with my mouse and keyboard.” YearsLooksLittlesDesignMetsTenComputerModelsBuiltMachinesDrawingDesignerVehicleMiceComplaintsKeyboardsRadius Author:Daniel Simon
“I was in a business for years where the stylist styled me, and I was wearing things from other designers. I was just there to be a conduit to those things. To be lucky enough to be embraced, having branched out from being a model, has been the greatest gift ever.” YearsHas BeensEnoughLuckyModelsDesignerGreatest GiftsStylist Author:Erin Wasson
“The thing is, if you're a designer, then you want to constantly push yourself and your designs. When we make a new collection, we're changing shapes, we're changing patterns. We get a dress on a model, and it's our first time seeing what the dress really looks like on a woman's body.” IfsWantFirstsLooksBodySeeingDesignShapesModelsFirst TimeDressesPatternsDesignerCollectionsPush YourselfWomen's Bodies Author:Christian Siriano
“Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.” LongHonestFindingsModelsBeing HonestDesignerLastingHonest With YourselfLong LastingBe Honest With Yourself Author:Rachel Roy
“The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.” PeopleKindHardFashionHard WorkModelsPhotographerDesignerNun Author:Alber Elbaz
“I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer.” ModelsExpectedDesignerStylist Author:Erin Wasson