I think a game hits a high point when it provokes reactions the designer doesn’t expect.
I do very little industrial design. I’m asked a lot, but I certainly don’t see myself as an industrial designer.
I am often asked what I would be doing if I hadn’t become a writer. I have long said I would probably be a chef or a garden designer or a decorator, but since recording my own books, there is no doubt in my mind that if the writing doesn’t work out, voice work is what I would choose.
I’ve never considered Supreme to be a fashion company, or myself a designer.
I’m not an interior designer – I’m a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn’t need a man to do it for her.
You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise.
I think it’s cool to get to know designers. There is some anxiety, maybe, that after you’ve met a designer, you want to be loyal to them and wear their clothes. And sometimes it’s just not my style. But you have to be honest, and I don’t really want to lie.
Sneakers are a new era. Anyone can feel new with a new pair of shoes. They make you feel contemporary. It’s fun because I’m not a young designer, and it opens my brain. Hip-hop isn’t just for the U.S. Everyone loves it.
I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn’t start acting.
The main thing we thought was lacking in the luxury market were basic pieces that could break up an outfit so you didn’t feel like you were totally dressed in one designer. You could add some ease and comfort, tone it down.
When I started out modeling, there weren’t casting directors and there weren’t stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.
I feel like I might be a designer or stylist – or a director because I have always been super interested in cameras and editing.
I’ll be so excited to take my daughter to her first fashion show, but I think, for her, it’s best to wait until she’s old enough to appreciate it. Or, at least, until she can pronounce the designer’s names!
On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
Right now I’m reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it’s my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.
I always loved fashion. My mother was a fashion designer, so it was always in my blood.
With stores like Topshop and H&M you can find really great stuff, but I do like designer things as well, and I’m lucky because they approach me to wear their stuff. I really love Miu Miu.
Time is my biggest luxury. Finding time to do things outside of fashion, which I think for a designer is incredibly important.
Michael Bastian is a designer line and priced a certain way because of where it’s made and the materials we use, and Gant is the more accessible version of that: more sports-inspired, more branding. It has the same DNA; it’s just a different time and place.
In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer – the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was.
As a designer, I think you just have to make sure you know what you want and stay true to it. You need to have conviction and really just want to make people think in regards to doing interesting things.
I think, as a choreographer and an action designer, you’re constantly giving your characters problems to overcome. That’s what makes it fun for choreography. But it also makes it fun for the audience to see them solve those puzzles and how they are as a human being.
I would never wear a look that was all the same designer. I always wear at least one thing that is vintage. I dress according to my mood, and I usually spend money on the basics, like leather jackets, handbags, sweaters and shoes.
If you were to say to me that I couldn’t paint, I would write. If I couldn’t write, I would be a set designer. As long as I’m creating something, I’m happy.
I’m really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He’s an interior designer and he’s really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.
I think God is the most fantastic designer.
I’m a jewelry girl. I became with friends with designer Irene Neuwirth a few years ago. At that point, I just used to wear my wedding rings. Very low key. Now, if I could, I’d be draped from head to toe in her jewelry all the time. Everything she makes is beautiful.
The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that’s because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.
Many a fashion designer’s career was founded using packs upon packs of Polaroids, and though we love them, we forget that the image quality was often circumspect.
I like to branch across a lot of different styles and brands in the way I dress; it’s just the way my style works. So I love that I can walk into a Target store and think, ‘Oh my God, I love these jeans,’ and then I’ll pair them with something designer.
I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.
My wife has forced me to wear designer jeans, and I find… there must be two or three hundred different kinds of jeans you can wear, all of which are made out of denim and look roughly the same. People are different. They have different tastes, different bodies. Cellphones ought to be the same.
In ‘Fable 1,’ the number of features was more important to me than what the features did. And as a games designer I’ve come to realize that it’s not the number of features you have, it’s the way that those features interact.
You have to keep in mind that fashion is constantly changing and every runway show, every designer and every photographer – they are going to have a different vision in mind.
I worked as President of House of Waris for a year and a half, and Waris is one of my favorite people. He is not only a talented designer but also a warm and genuine person and a pleasure to work with.
I’m the first American designer who went all over the world.
I’m a man, I’m not just a fashion designer.
Show some originality and never wear one designer head to toe.
It is a challenge to be a showstopper and not just a model walking down the ramp. Even if you are a celebrity, you have to do justice to the clothes you are wearing and the designer you are walking for.
As a designer, I believe in the power of fashion. It has the ability to not only change how you look but also how you feel about yourself.
As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn’t matter if it cost £200 or £2. I’m attracted to things rather than labels.
It’s not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It’s more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer’s point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.
While choosing a fashion show, I take into consideration the designer and the collection. Then only I said yes to do a show.
In my opinion, Armani, better than any other designer, does great things for the female form. And a pair of Levis does great things for the male physique. Not that I look.
A cousin of mine was a graphic designer, and he took me as a kid to see Flesh for Lulu and Social Distortion in 1988 in Chicago.
I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer – you do not want to be stuck in the same rut.
As I’ve said a million times, I’m obsessed with Liya Kebede’s LemLem line. The pieces, made by artisans in her native Ethiopia, are perfect for summer! I’m also a big fan of jewelry line Lulu Frost. Designer Lisa Salzer and I have been friends forever, and I love how she incorporates vintage pieces into her jewelry.
I’ve always found it strange that a director can hire any designer he wants from any country. But if he hires a foreign actor, it’s like he’s stolen the crown jewels and run across the river with them.
One thing that I think works in ‘Casablanca’ and which I’ve lectured a lot about – in terms of what I’ve been trying to achieve as a designer – is the film’s creation of its own form of reality.
That’s what my objective was, to reinvent myself from a console designer to starting a new business and embracing multi-platform, relearning the skills necessary to make successful games. It’s been an amazing journey.
The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur Dior. Dior himself was a gallerist before becoming the revolutionary fashion designer we all know.
