The media is looking every season for a designer to tell a story. I have a long story I have to tell, continuing fluently year after year.
My job as a designer is done when my clothes inspire freedom in Muslim women to adopt fashion the way they desire.
Stella McCartney, not only is she a designer, she is a mother of four, and she lives for practicality. She understands what a woman needs to wear to work and what a woman needs to wear when it’s time to go out and put on the Ritz!
I never feel with the fashion stuff that it’s too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I’m just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, ‘Maybe I could wear that in a video.’ I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
At Rent the Runway, we rent designer clothes. We have a belief set that half of the closet over time is going to move into the cloud, and a portion of what we wear every single day will be comprised of things that we don’t own forever.
As a male designer, you always need a woman’s touch.
As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.
Many people think that being a graphic designer means going to an expensive art school and buying expensive software that will cost you thousands of dollars. This is so far from the truth. There are hundreds of online education centers that offer top-notch graphic design training.
I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion – not as a designer, but mostly as a model.
I adore the designer B. Michael’s curve-flattering gowns, but there is nothing better than jeans with a crisp white shirt.
Any designer believes his gun is the best, and when its test performance is a bit less impressive compared to others, he feels bitterness and envy.
I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer.
I don’t think you need a certificate to truly legitimize you or authenticate you as a designer. I think real innovation and creativity can come from everywhere.
I couldn’t live if I wasn’t a designer.
I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.
My goal is: I’m not trying to be snobby, but my clothes are not for everyone, not for every Hollywood celebrity. There is a designer for everyone, and a celebrity for every designer.
When we talk about Something More, it isn’t wanting a fancier car, a bigger house, or a designer dress. Something More is what we need to fill our spiritual hunger.
I would love to be a fashion designer, so we’ll see how that goes.
When Billy Ray and I first got married, we lived in an A-frame house in Kentucky, and I didn’t even know you could get drapes made – I used to get drapes from Dillard’s. Once I hired a designer to help decorate that house was when I discovered a passion for designing.
As a heterosexual designer, it is really, really important to have a woman’s point of view.
With the traditional six-month lead time on the delivery of international show content, designer collections can be outpaced by the so-called fast fashion chains. H&M, Topshop and Zara, or even Target and J. Crew, would have their versions for sale before the designer looks hit the stores.
Yes, but more than being a designer, I’m more of a stylist, because I don’t sew and I don’t sketch, but I’m good at putting things together, choosing things that are chic and glossing over the aesthetics of things.
I really want people to see me as a fashion designer first because it is what I’ve always wanted to do.
When you have a gown, there’s much more to be concerned about. Where is this crease falling? Are you making a weird shape with the dress? Are you doing the designer justice? With a bathing suit, it’s more about you and the mood you convey.
My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he’s so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone.
I’ve always felt that ‘game over’ is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.
I wanted to be a designer since I was a kid, and I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed. I always thought that they were the most interesting people.
It really is the very top of the fashion world; nothing comes above haute couture. But not any old designer can create something magical and call it haute couture; the term is strictly protected for a very special few.
I love working with a set designer because, in many respects, you meet the set designer before you meet the actors. So it’s a chance for me as a director to figure out what I’m thinking and to explore how the space is going to actually be activated.
I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna!
I’ve been working with my stylist for a long time, Cece Liu. We’ve gone from buying and returning clothing, to this point where maybe finally a designer will dress me without me having to buy and return it.
I’m a designer with a little ‘d’ as opposed to a big ‘d.’ It’s a job; I’m more about contributing to a man’s wardrobe, offering the things that I look for myself.
I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, ‘This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.’ But then, that’s the goal: world domination through style.
My mum used to be an interior designer in those days. I was 5 years old when I used to go with her on sites and I fell in love with the world of color and design.
If not an actress, I would have been a designer. I like to work on my own clothes and make-up.
When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control.
So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.
I would’ve been a really good costume designer because, basically, my clothes were like costumes, and I wanted to be a dancer, so there’s all of that tulle and color.
When I walk for a designer, I walk the ramp as Vijender Singh, the boxer. I believe that by doing so, boxing will at least, in some way, get promoted in our entertainment industry. Plus, if cricketers can, why can’t I?
All my siblings became artists. One’s a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
It’s taken me a long time to enjoy shopping. As a plus-size girl, you walk into a store, and it can sometimes be like a designer doesn’t know you exist. It’s become a fun treasure hunt.
A lot of people say I look like a rock star or a designer punk. But I swear it’s the job that has carved my face. It’s the hours, the stress, and the pressure. It’s not me trying to look like this.
When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don’t share their inspiration, when it’s obvious somebody had such great inspiration.
For me, it’s not about being the best designer. I’m interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.
In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies particularly dangerous – though, of course, they would not have used that phrase.
When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs’ clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
A graphic designer, you know, who understands ideas and understands that ideas are what makes the world go round, could change the world with a magazine. If one talent could do it right now, and everybody would stop saying it’s the death of magazines.
I haven’t made many wedding dresses. It’s a dress very, very important for the girl; it’s important to know the person, I believe, but at the same time it should be a shock to the person – the person should be shocked to be suddenly revealed. That’s the work of a designer sometimes, to propose an ID of look.
It even sounds stupid to hear myself say the first costume designer I worked with was Catherine Martin, and she won an Oscar for it, but that was just my very lucky draw of roll of the dice.
I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
A great interior designer is able to capture who someone is and adapt to who they are.
I’m not good at dressing up. I always feel a bit out of place. It’s just not me – high heels and designer dresses – and I can’t seem to get used to it.
Seeing that ‘Project Runway’ sign at the end of the runway just made me, like, realize, like, ‘Wow, I’m on this show. I’m living every designer’s dream right now.’
Any time you talk about the look of the film, it’s not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.
