Designer Quotes · Page 11

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

— Stephen Frears

it is a shoe designer's job to be a year ahead of our collective unconscious.

— Cynthia Heimel

“If you take on production work, you don’t get to call yourself a designer.”

— Mike Monteiro

Everywhere I go, I can't wear everything a designer creates. I'm a little more gritty.

— Rick Ross

I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.

— Domenico Gnoli

Me, as a designer who is not exactly skinny, all I want is comfortable clothes.

— Alber Elbaz

Designers don't put out the same sweater every year. They just keep creating.

— Elayne Boosler

“every great entrepreneur is first and foremost a designer.”

— Peter Thiel

Helmut Lang does a lot of very military-influenced things. You have to find the designer that suits your body the best, and…

— Kyle MacLachlan

You don't need money to look fabulous. There are so many awesome new designers, so many designers doing collections for mass retailers.

— Stacy London

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

— Donald A. Norman

I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make…

— Oscar de la Renta

I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.

— Janet Echelman

I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things,…

— Roz Savage

Many designers are gay men making clothes for women. Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it…

— Kim Gordon

I had a great life at Boeing. I'd been there for 37 years and contributed to all the Boeing airplanes as a…

— Alan Mulally

I know I wasn't allowed to go to fashion school; I can't cut a dress like Galliano, right? But I had enough…

— Kanye West

If I weren't a theatre designer, I wouldn't be any other kind of designer. Design is interesting to me as it relates…

— Christine Jones

I've spent some time working with a non-Italian designer; I've been helping him organize fashion shows, the advertising, also helping with the…

— Allegra Versace

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to…

— May-Britt Moser

People usually forget that fashion designers are not artists, but there is an artistic side that is very strong in my point…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

If the point of contact between the product and people becomes a point of friction, then the designer has failed. If, on…

— Henry Dreyfuss

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is…

— Richard Dawkins

I think it's really important to make things your own in your voice. I started when I was 23, and in the…

— Jason Wu

I remember in my very first fitting, costume designer Patricia Norris gave me a garment with these intricate stitches - stitches over…

— Lupita Nyong'o

Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public, not designers…

— Milton Glaser

Everybody you work with sees what you're doing from a different point of view, a very specific point of view. So, if…

— Fred Schepisi

A lot of people love Tarantino’s films because they’re spectacular, they’re beautiful, they’re wonderful. He hires the best group of artists -…

— Demian Bichir

Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to…

— Tom Turner

The future is created at the intersection of business, technology, design, and culture. *In the Bubble* is an insightful and delightful explanation…

— Nathan Shedroff

Remember - the fault is in the garment, certainly not the girl. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with the shape of her.…

— S. Bear Bergman

I’ll be quite frank with you — I didn’t know about Hunger Games — so when I’m telling kids and they say,…

— Lenny Kravitz

I think a game hits a high point when it provokes reactions the designer doesn't expect.

— Brenda Brathwaite

I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.

— Alber Elbaz

When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

— Olivier Theyskens

Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

— William McDonough

A good designer will actually design the company.

— Donald A. Norman

I love wearing designer pieces with something I found at Target.

— Lauren Conrad

Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.

— Ozwald Boateng

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

— Massimo Vignelli