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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed…

— Olivier Theyskens

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable…

— Coco Chanel

Both of my grandmothers were needlewomen, so I grew up around dress design.

— Jenny Packham

It wasn't a conscious decision at first to pick up handloom and wear it, till I noticed some of the designers doing some really…

— Regina Cassandra

My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although…

— Domenico Dolce

A lot of my designs are inspired by the 1930s, when people were fabulous at dressing up. Then it just all kind of fell…

— Jenny Packham

My inspiration for interior design is more historical than traditional.

— Patrick Cox

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as…

— Tim Gunn

I've always been inspired by vintage clothing and vintage styles.

— Violet Chachki

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

— Alexander McQueen

So much of what's in my wardrobe is hand-me-downs, so my style was actually invented for me by family and friends.

— Topaz Page-Green

I've been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother's a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going…

— Christian Serratos