Designer Quotes · Page 17

Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

— Oleg Cassini

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing

— Massimo Vignelli

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

— Jeffrey Zeldman

I am the oldest young designer in New York City.

— Michael Kors

I'd never met Kate Spade, but I admired her as a designer and a businesswoman.

— Jennifer Ashton

My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.

— Reeve Carney

People used to define me as a futurist designer, but, you know, the future is now for me.

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I don't have designer clothes in my closet. I just wear them once and give them back.

— Kristin Cavallari

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior…

— Lenny Kravitz

There are very few designers in Hollywood today who know how to really flatter a woman's body, and Mark Zunino is at…

— Joan Collins

To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort…

— Guido Palau

I'm a designer. I make clothes and bags and shoes. I have a job that involves making creative choices, but I'm not…

— Marc Jacobs

But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.

— Samantha Mumba

I think to be empathetic is the greatest gift you can have as a designer. Hopefully, people will look at me and…

— Michael Kors

Do you know anything about fashion magazines? Being treated like superficial bimbos by men like you, and having to write about designer…

— Suh Jung

The designer side of me has many ideas on how the shoes or woman should look, but the man is thinking 'would…

— Christian Louboutin

I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond…

— Vera Wang

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We…

— Terence Fisher

MAC allowed me to have complete freedom on the collaborations—from the shades, the look-and-feel, to the campaign visuals. I have to admit…

— Philip Treacy

When we started out and we were talking about the origins of the universe and the physical constants, I provided what I…

— Richard Dawkins

I want to reiterate the fact that at the core of it all, I am a designer, a creator, and as a…

— Gauri Khan

I don't say I create. I copy, of course. I've never been interested in the point of view of the tailor or…

— Franco Moschino

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a…

— Diane von Furstenberg

I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer.…

— Kanye West

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote,…

— Robert Bringhurst

When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have…

— Raf Simons

When I'm directing, I really try not to be tied to anything. I don't even have the sides in my hands. I…

— Matt Ross

Astronomy is so easy to love. ... Fairly or not, physics is associated with nuclear bombs and nuclear waste, chemistry with pesticides,…

— Natalie Angier

I was given some designer colors for ink pens a long time ago and I haven't used them, and I have some…

— Barbara Hammer

I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer.…

— Dieter Rams

Because of Walter, we did it the other way around. We also worked with an awesome sound designer named Will Patterson who…

— Sam Pressman

If you are a designer, sometimes it is better not to delegate, because someone pays money for something that you designed, so…

— Tom Ford

I have to say that the identity of a fashion designer is international today.

— Sonia Rykiel

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15.

— Thomas Friedman

I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.

— Anna Sui

I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.

— Olivier Theyskens

You have to think like a designer. You have to establish the trend four seasons before it becomes popular.

— Kanye West

Well, I'm still experimenting, trying to figure out my style. I'm trying lots of things from many designers including Christian Siriano.

— Isabelle Fuhrman

Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all…

— Edith Head

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.

— Jean Paul Gaultier