Before Quote by Stefano Gabbana

DOLCE & Gabbana is like my and Domenico Dolce's child. The editing of a collection before a show is a tough call, as we…

— Stefano Gabbana

In early days, I showed everything I made. There was no such thing as editing a collection. In the '80s, it got to the…

— Michael Kors

Katie Grand often comes in from a very different angle than what I've been thinking about. And that really gives it that extra something,…

— Giles Deacon

I barely finish one pre-collection before I must start on another. Sales start, but I am already elsewhere creatively. The men's show is being…

— Alber Elbaz

Whatever you have in your show should be special, but not over the top to the point that it takes the focus away from…

— Manish Arora

My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother…

— Raf Simons

From a branding standpoint, the show represents only a fraction of our business, and the impact you actually have on the consumer is super,…

— Marco Bizzarri

The designers usually don't like to say until we're on the runway. Like when I did Prada last year, I couldn't mention doing Prada…

— Alessandra Ambrosio

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

— Eric Kripke

I will be working on the collection until the day before the show! It's an endless process, that's all that I can say at…

— Sonia Rykiel

When I started at Loewe, I took a year out before we did a collection because I felt we needed to work out all…

— Jonathan Anderson

I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces…

— W. Eugene Smith