No one ever said ‘no’ to me about anything. No one ever told me anything was wrong. Never. No one ever said, ‘You can’t be a fashion designer.’ No one ever said, ‘You’re a boy and you can’t take tap-dancing lessons.’ No one ever said, ‘You’re a boy and you can’t have long hair.’
I’ve always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don’t like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
I am the oldest young designer in New York City.
I have always been fascinated with precious stones, especially colored ones, and knew that I would eventually join the family business and be a jewelry designer some day.
Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures – it is the designer’s job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.
I always wanted to tell stories. Well, at least, I always came back to the notion of storytelling when the glitz and glamour of being a special effects designer or a fighter pilot or a DEA agent wore off.
I used the same designer and costume designer on ‘The Eagle’ and ‘The Last King of Scotland.’
While I was at community college, I studied industrial design because I thought maybe I’d be an automotive designer – I grew up in Detroit – and I also studied, geology because I was interested in science, a little bit.
Louise Frogley is a brilliant designer. I always find her wardrobe fittings really informative and creative. Together, you kick images and ideas around.
Fashion is very judgmental. It’s something where you have to be careful. I have a long way to go before I can be a designer. I’d love to one day, but we’ll see.
The new generation of designers, like Prabal Gurung and Alexander Wang, have hundreds of thousands following them on social media who will probably never be able to afford their dresses but still feel a loyalty to them. So when that designer writes a book or launches a beauty line, they might pick that up.
Brizo has been my single biggest sponsor since I began as a designer. Brizo wanted to be involved in many different areas of design – they had already worked with several architects, and fashion was an area they were interested in moving into.
I didn’t long to be a designer. I always liked fashion, but it was always a bit sleeping in me.
A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don’t really know what the final result will be before you have it.
People sometimes ask me what I did when I was hired at HAL. The answer is that I was a programmer. And an engineer. And a designer. And I marketed our games. I also ordered food. And I helped clean up. And, it was all great fun.
I’m all about the highs and lows. I’m not a designer that thinks you need to spend a lot of money. You can get the look you want between thrift stores and stores like Ikea and Target.
I love being a fashion designer.
I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now – no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
My dad’s a sound designer, and he used to take me to work with him.
When I mention that I’m a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, ‘Ah, that’s what we like about your script. The videogame feel.’
I wanted to be a fashion designer.
I’m a costume designer. My career is not in fashion, a field I’m basically unfamiliar with.
I don’t like it when you look too styled and wear one designer from head to toe.
I think ‘Overlord’ has definitely benefited because I work with every single level designer, and working where we have space to tell the story. That’s what it’s all about – getting writers and storytellers involved in the team and being a back and forth process.
I’m not very happy to be classified as another Japanese designer. There is no one characteristic that all Japanese designers have.
Whatever show is on, I dress in that designer’s clothes. Some of them were totally unwearable.
But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.
I started out taking any project that I could because you want the work. You want the opportunity to create, and I’m glad I did because it forces you to really get an understanding of your vision and your voice as a designer when you have to be scrappy like that.
There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.
I like shoes. Always liked shoes. Wanted to be a shoe designer or somebody who made shoes, something in shoes.
There’s no line between a designer and consumer.
Since I was a child, everyone would ask me what I wanted to do when I grew up. Was I going to be a designer? It’s as if there was a path drawn for me, and I could see, from where I was standing, exactly where it ended.
I am not bothered with whether my characters are conventional or not. Because I am not in this for the designer labels and the autographs.
If I hadn’t been a designer, I’d have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.
I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for ‘This Is the Sea,’ with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It’s a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though – you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief.
I don’t look at myself as a designer; I’m focused on music.
On a red carpet, you really want to feel your best, so to work with a designer who will shape a dress to your figure and take into consideration your opinions is really a blessing.
Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can’t we?
Fashion today is available to everybody in a way that it’s never been before: you’ve got every designer you’ve ever heard of working for H& or Target. That’s fantastic.
As a young designer in tune with culture, I’m interested in the lifeline of trends.
I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.
Sportswear is great, but not every designer can do tailored.
Rick Owens is my desert island designer. I could live in his clothes alone, and I collect Ossie Clark.
I’m not an interior decorator; I’m a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you’ve got big trouble.
Lizzie Magie was a pretty astonishing woman. She was an outspoken feminist, she had acted, she had done some performing, she had written some poetry, and she was a game designer.
I’m a maker, not a designer.
In L.A., retro culture is just part of the thing you do. When we were kids, we didn’t have allowances, and it was not cool to wear designer clothes. So it meant that we were into 1920s dresses when we were 13.
Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.
The costume designer Ellen Mirojnick is a genius.
I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.
For clothes, I like this little store on Fountain, Matrushka Construction. Beth Ann Whittaker and Laura Howe make amazing things. You can get a designer skirt with cool embroidery for 40 bucks instead of $400 or $4,000.
When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the doors were – the entrances, the exits; the tables, the props – and then I would hire the designer. I took charge of the visuals – scenery and costumes and so on. And, the shows looked wonderful.
I don’t want to go to the designer that everyone is going to. I want to find a designer that maybe no one’s paying attention to… And I’m not afraid to wear something crazy and ridiculous.
As an industrial designer, you design the thing by yourself, and then it goes away from you, whereas fashion is in constant relation to the body and to psychology. It makes it more complicated, and it makes it more challenging.
It’s inevitable that we’ll have some form of designer children, fueled not just by the science but by parents’ hard-wired desire to give their children every advantage.
Before I was rapping, I was an interior designer and decorator.
It’s intimidating to try and pull your home together if you don’t have an interior designer.
Designer’ is meant to mean whatever it means.
I love to mix high street with a good pair of shoes. I don’t agree with wearing head-to-toe designer – I think that’s a bit Wag-gy.
I’ve been accused of being a shell designer – you start with a machine and enclose it. But in many cases, the shell is essential. A locomotive without a shell would be nonfunctional.
