Fashion Designer Quotes

I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!' ~ Vivienne Westwood

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. ~ Jason Wu

When I told my sister, who was a fashion designer in college, what I wanted to do, she said I was crazy. But once I got started, I couldn't turn back. Kimberly Goodwin, Snapping Turtle Kids ~ Holly Hurd

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste. ~ Jean Patou

Fashion has a right to exist, because it permits people to define themselves over and over again. ~ Ann Demeulemeester

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. ~ Stella McCartney

POWER WITHOUT WISDOM IS WASTED ENERGY ~ KAMILAH WILLACY

I received a wonderful email after I spoke at a school from a girl who'd lived in a war zone and endured horrors no human being should suffer, let alone a child. This young lady was fortunate to be bought to Britain and seemed to adjust well, but suddenly found herself falling off the rails and sliding into hell when I chatted to her. In her letter, she told me the difference that I'd made. She's now 20 years old and a fashion designer employing staff and she puts her work ethic down purely to talking to me. It's my most treasured letter. ~ Simon Weston

In this funny debut, flashy Filipino fashion designer Boy Hernandez sees his American dream become a nightmare when he's ensnared in a terrorist plot and shipped to Guantanamo. Gilvarry nails the couture scene, but Boy's rough journey from Manolo to Gitmo is no joke. ~ Andrew Abrahams

It's a new era in fashion- there are no rules ~ Alexander McQueen

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

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. ~ Tom Ford

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes. ~ Dries Van Noten

Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not. ~ Alexander McQueen

I love being a fashion designer. ~ Roberto Cavalli

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. ~ Vivienne Westwood

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

I put pressure on myself to propose something new - I think it's the minimum that you can do as a fashion designer. ~ Nicolas Ghesquiere

Becoming a fashion designer is agreeing with the fact that what you experience or what you see as free is also connected to a system. Does that mean giving up your freedom? I still don't know the answer. There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. ~ Raf Simons

Though I'm a fashion designer, I never stuff my luggage with too many items. ~ Reem Acra

I wanted to be a fashion designer. ~ Heidi Klum

From since I could remember I've always been an artist, drawing, painting and so forth. I would also always draw made up rock n' roll characters in a band who each had their own style and personalities. I think by accident I was already becoming a fashion designer. ~ Ashley Purdy

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. ~ Anthony Burgess

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. ~ Franco Moschino

Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer. ~ Vidal Sassoon

I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor. ~ Gwendoline Christie

People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and ... It's not like that. ~ Dries Van Noten

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker. ~ L'Wren Scott

You need beauty to be a model but not to be a role model. ~ Amit Kalantri

The only rule is don't be boring. ~ Paris Hilton

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it. ~ Jean Paul Gaultier

Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world. ~ Giorgio Armani

I am always producing work, but there is always a sort of deadline where you have to finish work. I don't do it for a show. In other words, I am not like a fashion designer where I have a, you know - I have to put out the full line or I have to put out the summer line like that. ~ Robert Barry

My dad supports me. He said, "I wished when I was at your age I started doing rock and roll music. Then I wouldn't have to be a fashion designer." And I just laugh and keep it moving and appreciate his support. ~ Richard Hilfiger

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

There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes. ~ Manolo Blahnik

A fashion victim is dressed in designer clothes from top to bottom. ~ Donna Karan

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. ~ Coco Chanel

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Even today, after all that has happened, I keep this scarf wrapped around my hair because of men's interest in me. It is not because of faith any more; I still believe in Allah, don't misunderstand me, but I do not think Allah is a fashion designer. He observes people's hearts, not their clothes. ~ Tabish Khair

I'm a man, I'm not just a fashion designer. ~ Stefano Gabbana

Maybe careers aren't something you can really plan for. They just sort of happen, like brown eyes or flat feet. I took one of those career aptitude tests last year, and it showed that I should be a flight attendant or a seamstress. Not a fashion designer or anything, mind you, but a sweatshop worker. Apparently stewardesses and sweatshop workers and I enjoy a lot of the same interests and activities. ~ Susan Juby

I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters. ~ Marc Jacobs

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. ~ Vivienne Westwood

famous fashion designer ~ Carolyn Keene

Satan is both a fashion designer and an interior designer. He first appeals to the eye and then shouts, "Gotcha!" Then he goes to work on the "inside job. ~ Billy Graham

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things. ~ Vivienne Westwood

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. ~ Nate Ruess

I've always wanted to be an actress as well as a fashion designer. ~ Zoey Deutch

I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and eventually burnt-out politician, or the owner of a small bistro. But I fear that, without poetry, I would have simply been going through the motions. ~ Denise Duhamel

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. ~ Delphine Arnault

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. ~ Katie McGrath

God Will, I wish you'd stop telling me what to do. What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?" My voice had become shrill. "What if I'm tired when I get home? What if I don't need to fill my days with activity?"
"Bur one day you might wish you had", he said quietly.
"Do you know what I would do if I were you?"
I put down my peeler. "I suspect you're going to tell me."
"Yes. And I'm completely unembarrassed about telling you. I'd be doing night school. I'd be training as a seamstress or a fashion designer or whatever it is that taps into what you really love." He gestured at my minidress, a Sixties-inspired Pucci-type dress, made with the fabric that had once been a pair of Grandad's curtains.
The first time Dad had seen it he had pointed at me and yelled, "Hey, Lou, pull yourself together!" It had taken him a full five minutes to stop laughing.
"I'd be finding out what I could do that didn't cost much - keep-fit classes, swimming, volunteering, whatever. I'd be teaching myself music or going for long walks with somebody else's dog, or -"
"Okay, okay, I get the message," I said, irritably. "But I'm not you, Will."
"Luckily for you. ~ Jojo Moyes

The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her. ~ Madeleine Vionnet

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. ~ Laura Mvula

I had a dream about you. At first you were a mannequin, and I was a fashion designer. Then, inexplicably, we switched roles and I became the mannequin. But instead of putting clothes on me, you laughed at my nakedness, and you sold me to the owner of a sex shop. ~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo

I drive around on my scooter in Milan alone - we don't have bodyguards or anything like that. I am a fashion designer, not a celebrity, and although I get stopped for autographs and the like, I don't think I am famous. ~ Stefano Gabbana

For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting. ~ Iris Van Herpen

I don't see myself as a pure fashion designer sending dress after dress down the runway but about wanting those watching my shows to aspire to a certain lifestyle. ~ Matthew Williamson

I actually wanted to be a fashion designer. I did a lot with the sewing machine at home - - for Barbie or for carnival or just for fun. Then I saw this ad in the newspaper. And as young girls sometimes do some stupid things, I filled in the coupon and sent in my photos. ~ Heidi Klum

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

I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know? ~ Vivienne Westwood

The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion. ~ Oscar De La Renta

It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself. ~ Donatella Versace

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. ~ Tom Ford

As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three or six months. When you think about it, it's so intense. ~ Gaspard Ulliel

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. ~ Alber Elbaz

The stiletto is a feminine weapon that men just don't have. ~ Christian Louboutin

In many places, the past fifteen years have been a time of economic turmoil and widening disparities. Anger and resentment are high. And yet economic policies that might address these concerns seem nearly impossible to enact. Instead of the seeds of reform, we are given the yoke of misdirection. We are told to forget the sources of our discontent because something more important is at stake: the fate of our civilization.

Yet what are these civilizations, these notions of Muslim-ness, Western-ness, European-ness, American-ness, that attempt to describe where, and with whom, we belong? They are illusions: arbitrarily drawn constructs with porous, brittle, and overlapping borders. To what civilization does a Syrian atheist belong? A Muslim soldier in the US army? A Chinese professor in Germany? A lesbian fashion designer in Nigeria? After how many decades of US citizenship does a Spanish-speaking Honduran-born couple, with two generations of American children and grandchildren descended from them, cease to belong to a Latin American civilization and take their place in an American one?

Civilizations are illusions, but these illusions are pervasive, dangerous, and powerful. They contribute to globalization's brutality. They allow us, for example, to say that we believe in global free markets and, in the same breath, to discount as impossible the global free movement of labor; to claim that we believe in democracy and human equality, and yet to stymie the cre ~ Mohsin Hamid

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it. ~ Marc Jacobs

Absurdity and anti - absurdity are the two poles of creative energy. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

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

Be the designer of your own destiny. ~ Oscar De La Renta

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! ~ Karl Lagerfeld

When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career. ~ Amy Chua

I always say if I weren't a fashion designer, my other dream job is being a rock star! ~ Tommy Hilfiger

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics ~ Coco Chanel

When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them ... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era. ~ Azzedine Alaia

Real models don't go with the trend, they set the trend. ~ Amit Kalantri

I don't consider myself a fashion designer. ~ Manolo Blahnik

I'm a fashion designer. I don't want to be defined as someone's girlfriend. ~ L'Wren Scott

I wouldn't mind collaborating with anybody, but I don't want to design anything, I'm not a fashion designer. ~ ASAP Rocky

I'm a fashion designer. What I do is artistic, but I'm not an artist because everything I do is destined to be sold. That's not to say that you can't be an artist and a fashion designer. I think some designers are artists. ~ Tom Ford

Fashion fades...style is eternal"
Yves St Laurent ~ Nicole Jenkins

People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing. ~ Zaha Hadid

Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave. ~ Joan Crawford

It's all about setting new goals. I reached one goal when I got the Sports Illustrated cover, which was such a surprise to me. Then after that I had a meeting with my agency who asked, "What do you want to do next?" I'd love to do more TV, I want to do more editorials, more high-fashion stuff. It's like picking it all and doing it. ~ Nina Agdal

It must be shown that self-seeking is out of fashion, and that the world is moving on to a larger conception of living. ~ Manly Hall

It is the fashion in many parts of the United States to sneer at Chicago. This is notably the case in San Francisco. Most San Franciscans say they dislike Chicago.It is true that there is much that is unlovely there. To the impatient traveler hastening from New York to San Francisco the enforced stop at Chicago is distasteful. For Chicago has contrived things with such skill that it is difficult to cross the continent without stopping within her gates. Everybody must pay toll. The pilgrim must pause, even thought he do not unpack his wallet. He must stop at least for a bath and a bite. You find it difficult to go around Chicago. Chicago will not let you pass her without stopping. ~ Jerome Hart

I promise to keep her secure. Then I took two large wads a candle wax, kneaded them into earplugs, and stuff them into my ears. Annabeth nodded sarcastically, letting me know the air plugs are a real fashion statement. I made a face at her ... ~ Rick Riordan

We contended that whatever diminishes the sense of superiority in men makes them more manly, brotherly, and pleasant to have about; we felt sure that the bluff, the swagger, the bravado of young men would not outlive the mastery of the outdoor arts in which his sister is now successfully engaged ... indeed, we felt that if she continued to improve after the fashion of the last decade her physical achievements will be such that it will become the pride of many a ruddy youth to be known as that girl's brother. ~ Frances E. Willard

Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon. ~ Bruce Dickinson

My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas and asking myself questions, looking outside myself for them and researching and getting to the bottom of something and being creative with it as an actor and how to express it in a creative fashion. That's my favorite part. And, the actual acting of it. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So I hid that. ~ Sonia Rykiel

Dress gives one the outward sign from which people in general can, and often do, judge upon the inward state of mind and feelings. ~ Mae West

The designer must be able to see - make a concentrated effort to absorb the essence of the project. Seeing is a very difficult thing to do. Most people "look" at a lot of thing but never "see" anything. Looking is emotional; seeing is an intellectual process. ~ Albert Hadley

When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together. ~ Carine Roitfeld

My mother only had a third grade education, was illiterate, worked as a domestic 2 to 3 jobs at a time, because she didn't want to be on welfare, because she never saw people who went on welfare come off of welfare, and she just didn't want to have her life controlled in that fashion. ~ Benjamin Carson