Top 50 Fashion Designer Quotes

I am a fashion designer. I’m not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I’m a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

I don’t consider myself a fashion designer.

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.’

My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.

We have this perceived illusion of what the fashion designer does. As an industry, we make it out that this one individual changes the entire face of the earth. I have never said ‘me’; it’s always ‘we.’ I am just the big salesman.

I think that anyone who is in any way creative or is creating something, whether an architect or fashion designer, I think if you have the opportunity to create something that is fully you, it frees your mind and your spirit and gives you the opportunity to really find yourself.

Often when I meet people and say I’m a designer, they say, ‘Oh, a fashion designer.’ Which is not a bad thing I suppose, a bit groovy.

I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.

Growing up, I wanted to be a fashion designer, which I’m still in school for. Like, that’s what I want to be: a fashion designer.

I’m a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

I wear a lot of black, knitwear, skinny jeans and very high heels. My mum used to work for a fashion designer making knitwear, so she knits me lots of chunky scarves, hats and gloves, which I love.

I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It’s something I just fell into and really liked.

To work on the competition wear for the Olympics is kind of insane. As a fashion designer, you don’t think to yourself, ‘I’m going to get the opportunity to work with athletes at that level at the Olympic Games.’ It really is such an incredible thing to have any kind of contact with as a designer.

I don’t say I create. I copy, of course. I’ve never been interested in the point of view of the tailor or creator. Fashion is a visual impression. This is why I often refuse the name of fashion designer. It’s a superficial, stupid job. The social-psychological aspect is more interesting.

Right now I’d say my favorite fashion designer is Zac Posen.

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.

I am trained as a fashion designer and do not claim to be an expert architect or anything like that. I won’t do something unless I know I can do it.

Ahana does lots of things; that’s the problem with her. She is a fashion designer and is also writing some scripts. She doesn’t want to do the regular commercial films. So she has decided that only if she really likes something, then she will take it up.

Though I’m a fashion designer, I never stuff my luggage with too many items.

I’m not an artist. I’m a fashion designer of clothes.

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.

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.

This is very much my philosophy as a fashion designer. I have never believed in design for design’s sake. For me, the most important thing is that people actually wear my clothes. I do not design for the catwalk or for magazine shoots – I design for customers.

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.

If I hadn’t decided to be a fashion designer, I would have loved to be a Broadway showgirl or a Rockette!

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.

It’s funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it’s not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear.

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.

I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it.

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 love being a fashion designer.

Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.

My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model.

Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.

I’m more of a fashion designer than I am a rapper.

I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.

I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.

Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There’s a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces – one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.

I’m a man, I’m not just a fashion designer.

I’m not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I’ve never been to design school. I can’t sketch. I can’t cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

I would love to be a fashion designer, so we’ll see how that goes.

I was always extremely creative. I was very artistic and never strong with numbers or science. I wanted to be an artist or a fashion designer. I wanted to be something that allowed for a lot of imagination.

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.

From singing to acting to songwriting to mom to fashion designer! It’s been quite an evolution.

I’m a fashion designer. I don’t want to be defined as someone’s girlfriend.

I always wanted to be a fashion designer, for as long as I can think of. Acting happened by chance, so I call it beginner’s luck, actually. I am planning to carry on for as long as I can.

Fashion was always with me since I was young. I would always be like, ‘What do I want to be when I grow up?’ And it hit me when I was young – I wanted to be a fashion designer.

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.

If one lazily thinks of what a fashion designer might do if he’s going to conquer cinema next, it would be taking the opportunity to display his fashion sensibilities.

If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.