I’ve always said I’m not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.
I started doing flats because women would always apologize for wearing them when they met me, as if they had to be in heels when meeting a shoe designer.
I don’t want to be an elitist designer. It’s no fun just catering for a small group of people. It’s against my principles.
I’m a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept.
I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can’t do it, some other game designer will.
I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion.
My mum was a costume designer and costume supervisor in the theater and, especially, the ballet. But that was before I was born.
I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don’t design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me.
Three cheers for the artistry of the lone designer doing his thing!
For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It’s a different designer for each episode, but for each one we’re all wearing their clothes.
We’ve taken on health care in a big way in our office, ever since nine years ago when I was paralyzed. I was in eight different hospitals, three different rehab centers, and all the rooms were dreadful. As an architect, designer, and patient, I can do something to help.
It’s my job to know what’s available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.
I used to draw cars when I was growing up. I wanted to be a car designer. I’ve never been professionally taught. It’s something that comes and goes.
We make it easy for anyone to get free resources. Anyone can launch an idea for five minutes. Anyone can comment on, add, and enhance the idea. Need a designer? We provide an entrepreneurial matching system without the bosses getting involved. And in terms of unstructured time, we have a permission for that.
In the past, when I lacked designer duds, I simply relied on my hot glue gun.
I posed as an album-cover designer and photographer… That I today have some album covers and photographs to show for myself is a monument to the attention-to-detail of my disguise.
I worked as an interior designer. I worked as a furniture salesman. I worked as a financial adviser. I worked as a painter and decorator – that wasn’t for very long. I was a baker for about four-and-a-half years.
On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn’t agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing.
We are finally entering an exciting time in medicine where we have the technology to custom-tailor treatment and preventive protocols just as we’d custom-tailor a suit or designer gown to one’s individual body. But it all begins with you. You have to know yourself in a manner that you’ve probably never done before.
When you’re an adult designer, you’re either running a business, or you’re helping someone else’s business run. Either way, that’s a lot of pressure.
I’ve always been quite thrifty. I can’t bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.
I would love to be a fashion designer but that’s easier said than done.
I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could have become a dress designer: Dior was willing to take me on as an assistant, but he did not have an immediate vacancy.
If I’m going to be the black designer, I’m going to tell it my way.
At Warby Parker, we ask ourselves a number of questions when deciding whether or not to partner up with a designer, or a nonprofit or brand. Is the potential collaboration new? Is it unexpected? Will it result in something worth talking about over dinner? Will it do good? Will it introduce us to a new audience?
One thing most people don’t know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.
Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.
I think tights make a comeback out of necessity every season: you can only go so far with naked legs in the cold! You’ve got to protect yourself. I remember going to a fashion show and saying, ‘And it’s okay if I wear nude tights with this?’ to the designer, who looked at me like I just killed his dog or something.
Our business is as good as any high-end designer. We do good because we make good things.
I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit… weird.
I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
As a British fashion designer, it is an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be creative director of Team GB as the hosting nation of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
There’s design, and there’s art. Good design is total harmony. There’s no better designer than nature – if you look at a branch or a leaf, it’s perfect. It’s all function. Art is different. It’s about emotion. It’s about suffering and beauty – but mostly suffering!
The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.
I worked as a writer, lead designer, and creative director in the game industry.
I would have loved to be the designer of the Capitol of the United States. I would love to do some important major public building.
I would say that an understanding of man’s intrinsic needs, and of the necessity to search for a climate in which those needs could be realized, is fundamental to the education of the designer.
Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I’m drawn to rich and beautiful colors.
It’s sad, the enslavement of the black underclass to designer labels – we’re an age that cares more about Versace than Vermeer.
I feel designer wear is great and is created after a lot of thought and effort but it’s essential that we are confident and comfortable with our fashion choices at all times whether it’s on social media or in real life.
Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
I don’t have a favourite designer. If I like the piece, I don’t really care if it’s any particular brand – I’ll buy!
I’m a fashion designer. I don’t want to be defined as someone’s girlfriend.
I’m a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it’s frivolous or superficial, but it’s not that way at all. It’s actually very hard work.
I have been a scrappy actor for 10-plus years, and when you’re playing supporting roles, your relationship with the costume designer is very different.
I don’t want to be a celebrity designer. I want to keep my personal life out of it.
I wouldn’t say there is one specific designer I rock. It’s more of the look of the shirt and what occasion and where I’m wearing it to.
I think a good designer can exist everywhere and anywhere and all the time. It’s all about being good, and I think that our job basically is to make women and men look good.
I think I am obsessed with Lucie Rie. I love the way she collaborated with Miyake, who for me is probably the most important fashion designer of the 20th century.
For me I’m a luxury brand trying to prove to people and the industry that it’s not about being a TV celebrity in any which way, it’s about being a designer and having a business and being successful at that.
I don’t think everything has to be new all the time. You don’t have to have the latest designer all the time to look good. Just have things you’re comfortable with, have key pieces that you can sort of reinvent over and over again, and always keep things that you really love for a while.
I wonder if I would have been less organic of a designer without my background. Maybe I would be more academic about designing, more methodical. I want things to be a certain way, and I’m very precise, but school itself wasn’t that relevant for me.
I own thousands of capes and suits that are a fashion designer’s dream. They will eventually be displayed in a museum. The colors, styles, outfits, boots, and brooches of my wardrobe were representative of the signs of the zodiac.
I was an absolutely untalented designer.
I can imagine an automotive designer or an industrial designer building a product in 3D, all in real-time. That’s the way a lot of people are going to work in the future.
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
I definitely went through a phase where I wanted to be a fashion designer when I was younger… But I certainly wasn’t very good at it.
