Words matter. These are the best Georgina Chapman Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My mother says I’m like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.
Sometimes if I can’t sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things – it could be an image I’ve seen, or a book I am reading.
One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother’s engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It’s a Victorian-style setting that’s closed in the back, so it doesn’t sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.
I make sure I carve out time to be with my daughter.
I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it’s just such a glamorous time.
It’s funny, because I sometimes feel that I’m most creative when I’m pregnant.
We don’t leave home without my daughter’s doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her.
I didn’t finish my dress until about three days before my wedding – I had the flu and was stitching it from my bed. And the tulle came back from India all brown. We had to wash it for hours, but that didn’t dissuade me from wearing it.
I love children. I’ve always loved children.
Bridesmaids are never going to upstage the bride.
My wedding was at home, so I didn’t really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.
I love vintage and prints.
It’s good to talk to people and get ideas.
Belize suits me because I’m active and I like diving. I learnt when I was 18, in Thailand, and I have dived in Vietnam, which wasn’t great, the Red Sea, which was incredible and reasonably priced, and then the Maldives, which is like being submerged in an aquarium.
What I love about my husband is that he really allows me to be the best person I can.
I look much more civilized than I actually am.
I’m actually an incredibly disorganized, messy person.
I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.
I am a control freak.
My family is my number one priority.
What an amazing opportunity to do something like direct a movie and step out of your creative comfort zone and yet do something that is also so familiar at the same time. I was also just excited to have the chance to direct, which I may never get to do again.
I think it’s very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.
If you’ve chosen someone to be in your bridal party, she should be a good enough friend that she does not want to upstage you.
I love imagining being someone else in another time.
The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods.
