Able Quote by Suzy Menkes

A lot of designers get caught up in the creativity, but you've got to think about the legs of your collection - essentially, how…

— Alexander Wang

The reason I wanted to work with New Look was that they wanted to stick with one designer and do lots of collections a…

— Giles Deacon

My collections are a reflection of my personality, and the satisfaction I get from wearing my own designs is indescribable.

— Keerthy Suresh

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using…

— Howard Hodgkin

There are not many designers who are truly creative and literate. Most are self-indulgent, illiterate, fashion-mongering, service people trying to bridge a message between…

— Ivan Chermayeff

I always have separated myself from my critiques of collections. My judgment is not about whether I would wear it - but how the…

— Suzy Menkes

You never know what people are going to respond to or want in your work, and you just hope for the best when you…

— Jay McCarroll

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

— Paola Antonelli

I'm not intellectual at all as a designer. Whatever I'm into at the moment is usually what becomes the collection.

— Peter Dundas

Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

— Brian Chesky

These designers have no reserve. They've chosen a path and thrown themselves onto it head first, regardless of everything. Whether or not their designs…

— Giorgio Armani

I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set…

— Philip Johnson