Words matter. These are the best Patrick Cox Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My inspiration for interior design is more historical than traditional.
Do I miss shoes? I miss the designing, but I don’t miss the fashion industry. Those people eat their children.
As a designer, you are not only a designer, you are also a celebrity, an entertainer, and a spokesperson that speaks on behalf of the company. So you need to realize that you have to embrace all those sides.
I don’t eat at home, ever.
By the time I came out of college, I was fabulous.
There is nothing worse than bright lighting – it isn’t flattering and makes the glamorous women want to leave.
Now, I’m older. I don’t follow the vagaries of fashion: my look tends to be skinny flat-front trousers with a long-sleeve American Apparel T-shirt and a V-neck cashmere jumper – preferably Loro Piana.
Show some originality and never wear one designer head to toe.
I’m addicted to chinos the second weather gets warm enough.
I’ve stayed in enough hotels so I really know what works and what doesn’t design-wise.
I love Italy, and that’s where I make my own shoes. But the French really do respect designers. Italy is totally different; footwear is an industry. The shoes are all about craft and luxury. French shoes are more about straight lines, and they are way more geometric.
I lived in Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon when I was very young, until my mother divorced my father.
Copying is a form of self-validation.
I’m a huge monarchist.
I was wondering if the best was behind me, had the high point of my career already happened. Then I saw what Manolo had done, and some of his best work happened after he turned 40.
I have a pop sensibility, which I think comes from all those weekends spent in nightclubs.
I think a house should reflect the interests and personality of the occupant, but it takes time to gather together the objects one likes around oneself.
I finished college by July 15th, 1985, and by October 1985, I had a little stand during the trade show which was London Fashion week at the time. My stand was tiny – just 6 square meters in total – and I had my 12 shoes that I designed while in college.
I love talking in lira because, suddenly, everything is in billions.
I couldn’t have asked for a better testimonial than Bob Dylan parting with his own cash for a pair of my shoes.
Rock stars love Cuban heels because a lot of them tend to be diminutive. And I’ve never met a man who doesn’t mind having an extra inch or two anywhere on his body.
I came to London during what was called the second British invasion. The music was from Britain, the fashion was from Britain, everything was from Britain, so I knew I had to be in Britain.
I used to sock hop to ‘Crocodile Rock’ and stare at those platform boots on the album cover.
Most of my holidays are with wonderfully generous friends with houses in the country or the South of France.
In fashion, my inspiration comes from pop culture – the 1960s and the following years. Whereas in interior design, my influences are much broader.
After selling the business, and the Patrick Cox brand in 2007, I had a three-year non-compete, where I just spent a lot of time hanging all over the world on beaches and having fun.
Archives can be inspiring but overwhelming. You have to forget them – especially when the whole world has been knocking them off. Everyone shops the same flea markets.
I’ve learnt a lot about construction and flexibility from my time at Geox.
Wannabe was so huge. So big. So unexpected.
I am like a sponge: I adore reading, watching films, and visiting museums and exhibitions. I am always in search of new things in many spheres.
Shoe design is like architecture – with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.
I’m kind of the shoe guy.
It is all about quality of life and being proud of what I do. I need me to be me.