Top 404 Designer Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Designer Quotes from famous people such as Hubert de Givenchy, Aslaug Magnusdottir, Hedi Slimane, Nicolas Ghesquiere, Shamita Shetty, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

When you are a designer, what's important is to be awar

When you are a designer, what’s important is to be aware of things. Everything should lead to an idea, a line to follow, a movement.
Hubert de Givenchy
There are so many women throughout the world who appreciate beautiful design and have the budget to buy designer fashion but sometimes have a hard time finding the things that they really want or that suit their lifestyle or their culture or whatever it may be.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
An athletic man, or whatever you want to call him, will only look good in a very classic suit, a pair of classic jeans, athletic clothes or simply naked. Forget fashion. This is not going to happen, unless you want to look like a Chippendales dancer in designer clothes.
Hedi Slimane
People used to define me as a futurist designer, but, you know, the future is now for me.
Nicolas Ghesquiere
The only friend I have had for the longest time is Rocky S., the designer. He has been in my life for 20 years now.
Shamita Shetty
After graduating from high school, I worked at an advertising agency as a designer. After I left, I spent a year doing nothing in particular. At age 23, I drew my first comic.
Akira Toriyama
I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.
Philip Treacy
A bit of me would like to be a furniture designer or a criminal profiler.
Anna Madeley
Millions of Americans take vitamins safely every day, including me. Vitamins and mineral supplements taken in recommended doses are safe. It’s the designer supplements that are worrisome.
Dick Durbin
I had a great life at Boeing. I’d been there for 37 years and contributed to all the Boeing airplanes as a designer: the 707, 727, 37, 47, 57, 67 and ‘triple 7’ and the 87.
Alan Mulally
I’m not about the next big trend. I’m about the silhouette and right fit and right designer for me.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
Nvidia’s CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, is an engineer and a chip designer. He cofounded Nvidia and still runs it like a startup.
Daniel Lyons
Fashion designing involves a lot of work, and, as opposed to the general perception, it is different from costume designing for films. While a fashion designer can take up a costume designer’s role, it is not possible vice versa.
Keerthy Suresh
I’m a designer, not a businesswoman.
Georgina Chapman
It’s not what you spend but how you wear it that counts. The key is often to dress up inexpensive basics with accessories. Something like a beautiful designer bag or belt can make everything else look richer and more luxurious.
Chloe Sevigny
I’m a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?
Vivienne Westwood
If I wasn’t a designer, I would love to be a doctor. That is my fantasy, my dream. A doctor will give you a tablet if you have a headache, and I will give you a dress, and we both make you feel good.
Alber Elbaz
My favourite designer was Alexander McQueen. His lines were different every time.
Grigor Dimitrov
Fledgling designers need investment – but how much easier it is to put them in a dead man or woman’s shoes, perhaps also backing the new designer’s namesake line, but only as what the French call a ‘danseuse,’ a plaything.
Suzy Menkes
I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it’s expensive.
Ellie Goulding
To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you’re a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
Natalie Massenet
I’ve always aligned myself with a more modern, European fit. I maintain that fit is the thing that makes or breaks an outfit. Good tailoring trumps designer and price any day.
Henrik Lundqvist
I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.
Karan Johar
My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer.
George MacKay
I’m sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one – music, fashion, and art. I’m hitting it from all angles.
ASAP Ferg
I don’t really buy designer stuff. I have a few nice things, but I don’t really have the occasion to wear couture too often.
Emma Watson
If I wasn’t an actress, I’d be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful – looking at a space and creating magic.
Deborra-Lee Furness
I’m a British designer, and it’s great to show on your own ground.
John Rocha
I feel like there is a different, new energy when I collaborate with a living artist, whether it be a composer, designer, lighting designer. I love that process.
Justin Peck
The women I play don’t sit in the corner eating lettuce leaves and talking about what designer shoes they have.
Maxine Peake
Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.
Brad Holland
When I first redesigned the 'Surfer' magazine, a magazi

When I first redesigned the ‘Surfer’ magazine, a magazine about magazines took a copy to the famous American designer Milton Glaser, and – surprise surprise – he hated it.
David Carson
I don’t have a favourite designer because I feel every designer offers something different and special, but I do really like Alexander Wang, Burberry, Stella McCartney and Balmain.
Jourdan Dunn
My plan was to model and pay the rent and then intern with designers and work on the other side of the industry however I could, but then it just got to be too much, especially with casting, fashion week, and also working for a fashion designer.
Hunter Schafer
My dad was a theater designer, and I spent a lot of time hanging around the dressing room listening to whatever the actors were listening to, which is where I heard Pink Floyd for the first time.
Diego Luna
I have been a designer all my life, and design, for me, is to share love and trust and show the future in a beautiful way. I have worked on this principle all my life.
Marcel Wanders
Heidi Klum really created something for herself. She is a personality, a model, an entrepreneur. She has a TV show. She’s a designer. She’s doing a lot of great things. I think she’s pretty smart.
Nina Agdal
Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.
Paul Rand
You don’t have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I’ve learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not.
Donna Karan
I was obsessed with fashion when I was young. I thought fashion meant fashion design, and I thought I wanted to be a designer at some point.
Nina Garcia
It’s so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It’s a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it’s not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
Narciso Rodriguez
I never claimed to be a computer engineer, but I did train as an industrial designer, and I am a consumer marketer, and I am very comfortable dealing with complex businesses and complexity in general and simplifying it – basically a systems designer.
John Sculley
In the Everybody-Give-Me-A-Hug victim culture in which we live, the obese want a spot at the table along with those who face discrimination based on the way that God or Nature or our Intelligent Designer created us.
John Ridley
The kind of films that I do… they don’t really have the budget for the actress to wear designer clothes. I think that is because it’s mostly very relatable, real-life roles.
Richa Chadha
Evil is evil, and it doesn’t discriminate by dress. Some evil people in the headlines wear designer suits and wing-tipped shoes.
Dana Loesch
I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.
Lori Foster
I’ve never worked in advertising – my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines – but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
Barbara Kruger
For someone in an alternative job, an alternative lifestyle, it’s very hard to explain what I do. So I sometimes try and dumb it down as much as possible, so I’m changing what I do every time! So sometimes I’m in an Uber, and they ask, ‘So what do you do?’ and I say, ‘I’m a comedian,’ or, ‘I’m a graphic designer.’
Connor Franta
I want to reiterate the fact that at the core of it all, I am a designer, a creator, and as a creative person, I will choose to be limitless in the extension models of my various ideas on design.
Gauri Khan
I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to – as my father puts it – finally have a real job.
Lady Gaga
The Hermes scarf is a coveted, much-collected symbol of success that defines the Paris-based luxury company. But it has no single designer. Rather, the scarves are designed by a far-flung array of freelance artists.
Christina Binkley
I’m a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.
Raf Simons
Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone’s critiquing.
Portia de Rossi
Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
Naeem Khan
I collaborated with fellow cat lover and designer Geren Ford to create a sweater that we hope any cat parent would wear to show their kitty pride and that all animal lovers can wear in support of the ASPCA.
Kellie Pickler