Able Quote by Valentino Garavani

I love designers sketches, they're like poetry. A vision of an idea intended to make someone feel wonderful.

— Dawn O'Porter

Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want…

— Marc Jacobs

I try to push design boundaries using new draping and fabric manipulation techniques every time I approach a new design.

— Zac Posen

I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.

— Bethany Cosentino

I never designed before. I wasn't formally trained in design, I went to photography school at the ICP. But over time, I taught myself…

— Minnie Mortimer

I have no idea how to do sketches, believe it or not.

— Pete Davidson

Obviously, I never had to sketch anything out. To me, that was the appeal of working with clip art, working digitally. You make it…

— David Rees

If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.

— Tim Gunn

So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I…

— Tadashi Shoji

Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to…

— Jil Sander

I made silk screens of my drawings. I could add a drawing that was made with a machine or digitally to a drawing that…

— Amy Sillman

I don't look at a lot of design. I try to stay focused on making sculptural art pieces and somehow translating them into design.

— Fernando Mastrangelo