Top 25 Phoebe Philo Quotes

I was very, very eager to work. It’s just the way I am.

I want to show my personality through my designs and stay pretty anonymous outside the industry.

I don’t believe in making fashion difficult.

I feel very much that I am a human being, with human limitations, and I need to respect that.

There is absolutely a gap in the market for thirty something women and, the more I look at it, the more I feel there needs to be a sense of ease and choice.

I don’t know whether that comes from having a family – having something very important at home that needed to be protected.

I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning.

Because I’m a woman, and I’m petite and blonde, you wouldn’t believe how often I’m asked to model the clothes.

I find mediocrity hard. I find that whole area difficult. I’m a very passionate person; I care very much about what I do. I believe I give it a lot, so it’s gotta be good; otherwise, what’s the point?

I just have to be very, very organised.

My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I’m feeling at the time.

What I love is this idea of a wardrobe, the idea that we’re establishing certain signatures and updating them, that a change in colour or fabric is enough.

I have a fantastic team, and it’s much easier having children, because that creates a natural limit.

I do like the idea of women not showing too much, of them being quite reserved in a way, and quite covered.

The older I get, and the more collections I do, the more I’m driven by real style and beauty. My aim is to reveal and not to display women.

When I was deciding whether or not to take the job at Celine, I didn’t really look at the history of the house. I had other offers to come back, but they weren’t right, or they wouldn’t let me stay in London, which was non-negotiable.

I have an innate fear of fame. I’ve never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.

Things have to sell, of course, but if I don’t want to put bags on the runway, we don’t put bags on the runway. I have complete creative control.

I’m just not very interested in decoration.

I never had a massive desire to buy clothes. I liked to customise the clothes I already had or was given when I was younger. If I didn’t like them that much, I made them how I wanted them to be.

I’m happy to do interviews from time to time, but I don’t find them that necessary – and that hasn’t seemed to have affected people’s understanding of our work.

I try not to intellectualise what I do.

I decided to work on things that obsess women because women can’t resist things like lace, sequins, animal prints and python.

Women should have choices, and women should feel good in what they wear.

I’m not interested in clothes that just convey a certain look or fashion. Clothes for me have always been a form of self-expression.