Designer Quotes · Page 25

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

As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look…

— Colleen Atwood

Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture,…

— Lady Gaga

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

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

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do…

— Jil Sander

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive…

— Eva Zeisel

You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good…

— Mike Davidson

People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws…

— Dries van Noten

I wanted to be a designer since I was a kid, and I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed…

— Anna Sui

China is exciting because it is an extremely curious and interested market. What more can a designer ask for? The client here…

— Michael Kors

I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business…

— Vivienne Westwood

I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans. I like a little bit of designer with a…

— Cara Delevingne

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 don't gravitate toward any one designer because I think of fashion as the costume of the everyday woman.

— Kerry Washington

No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion.

— Shawn Ashmore

“My brain is an amazing machine. Too bad I can’t take credit for it. As brilliant as I am, think how profound…

— Jarod Kintz

That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can…

— Joseph Altuzarra

The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.

— Paula Scher

Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

— Larry Wall

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

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors…

— Peter Mullan

The media is looking every season for a designer to tell a story. I have a long story I have to tell,…

— Helmut Lang

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made…

— Tom Ford

I didn't know I was going to become a designer; I was going to become a successful person, but I really wanted…

— Riccardo Tisci

Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

— Erik Adigard

We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would…

— Vincent Paronnaud

Fashion is about affordable luxury ... To succeed, designers need to be affordable, wearable, accessible, and aspirational.

— Tommy Hilfiger

I feel best in soft and natural materials such as cotton and silk. I wear collections from all designers. They all have…

— Laetitia Casta

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

— Marilyn Monroe

The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion.

— Oscar de la Renta

If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may…

— Nir Eyal

I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in…

— Lori Foster

I think people who believe that life emerged naturalistically need to have a great deal more faith than people who reasonably infer…

— Lee Strobel

Of course designers inspired me, but I was more inspired by everyday people. People that I see walking down the street.

— Zendaya

The designer's role in the development, application and protection of the trademark may be described as pre-creative, creative and post-creative.

— Lester Beall

I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you…

— Cara Delevingne