Designer Quotes - Page 20

• What I'm doing now is having people with and around me to build what other designers built before - like Pierre Balmain with Josephine Baker, Audrey Hepburn, Dalida, Brigitte Bardot.

  Olivier Rousteing

  People, Audrey, Hepburn

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• 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, because designers can often get stuck in their own view of how the collection can look. I always love the way that she turns it into something else and I kind of let go at that point.

  Giles Deacon

  Letting Go, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The biggest challenge and the thing I find most enjoyable about being a designer is taking everything in and assimilating it for your perspective, hopefully making it relevant and interesting to people.

  Giles Deacon

  People, Interesting, Perspective

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My first girlfriend, when I was about 18, was a fashion designer, and my sister was a fashion designer as well. I've always been into shopping, and I've always been very aesthetic, in a sense.

  Johan Lindeberg

  Fashion, Girlfriend, My Sister

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are so many young designers who need stock, who need my push. With the commerce, the one thing I knew is that I wanted to have things that were affordable. I was always one of those customers that would go to an amazing store and be like, "Um, what's the least expensive thing?"

  Nicola Formichetti

  Affordable, E Commerce

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Simplicity is the base of everything. At the end of the day if you feel good about yourself, you don't need anything. You don't have to depend on the power of a dress to dress you up. You wear dress the dress, it's not the opposite. It's not only a designer, it's not only just fashion, it's a philosophy. It's a lifestyle.

  Alessandra Mastronardi

  Fashion, Philosophy, Simplicity

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think recognition outside of Japan is amazing. I don't feel like that kind of thing would ever happen to me, as I'm not like those kinds of designers - I don't want to express myself in such a categorized way. I kind of want to be in the middle of the majority and the minority. I don't really want people to know what I am.

  Hiroshi Fujiwara

  Thinking, People, Recognition

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Jack Geisinger. He passed, but we were friends up until the end. We took a dress design and apparel class, and I realized that I didn't like it, mostly because I couldn't sew very well. I then change over to textile design, where I could draw and paint. It was perfect for me. I got to the height of my career as a textile designer. I was working with people like Donna Karan, Jean Muir, and Scott Barrie.

  Roxanne Lowit

  People, Perfect, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I approach a collection, I never think too much about myself, because doing fashion and being a designer, you need to dream. Of course, there's always a part of myself. I'm always wearing what I'm doing. I'm not a party girl, but when I have the opportunity to go out and dance and be crazy for a night, that's the fall/winter collection.

  Frida Giannini

  Girl, Dream, Fashion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I knew I wanted to make a movie that looked decadent and expensive. I knew we would have to make every penny stretch and put as much of the budget onscreen as possible. So it starts with your heads of departments - your production designer, costume, hair and makeup designers. Picking the right people who were as committed as I was to telling the story as I was.

  Amma Asante

  Makeup, People, Committed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life is full of all sorts of things, and I never expected to be a part of this. I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer. So you never know.

  Erin Wasson

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think there was a warmer relationship between the models and the designers and even the businesspeople involved. It was not so cut-throat and not so corporate. And I think today it's just big business and big money, and I don't think the human relationship is there as much. I think it's very changed.

  Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

  Thinking, Today, Changed

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The movies I did before were movies with a lot of characters, a lot of locations, and low budgets, which meant that I was running all over the place and never had the chance to build a relationship with an actor. I was always having big, strong relationships with the cinematographers or editors or production designers, but not with the actors.

  Denis Villeneuve

  Running, Strong, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was 5 or 6 years old, I never wanted toys; I wanted electrical parts so I could build things. And I was better at taking things apart and putting them back together, but I always had extra pieces left over, so I think it was an early warning that I was a better designer than an engineer.

  John Sculley

  Thinking, Together, Electrical

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I wanted to be an industrial designer, so I went to business school for that, and I then went on to marketing at Interpublic Group of Companies, which was one of the first organizations to actually think about brand marketing. I worked on Coca Cola's account, and then I was recruited by Pepsi, and I ended up being Pepsi's first MBA. I was called the High Wire Act because I was in my 20s and I was given jobs of increasing responsibility that I was totally unqualified for.

  John Sculley

  Responsibility, School, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I was given some designer colors for ink pens a long time ago and I haven't used them, and I have some handmade paper, and I just have the desire to drip on wet paper. It reminds me of when I was seven years old and had my tonsils out, and one of the first artworks I made was on toilet paper with a colored pencil; it was sort of half paint and half colored pencil. But I got very involved with color and absorption and I think, you know, 78 is a good time to go back to the beginning.

  Barbara Hammer

  Thinking, Long, Desire

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been an artist forever. I started when I was in the third grade. I drew drawings of monsters and I sold them to my classmates for a dime. I studied painting. Originally I was a design and illustration major, but I met this girl. Back then, if you were a designer, you were a real sellout, and she was a real hardcore painter. I knew she would never take me seriously unless I was an art major, so I switched majors to fine arts. Anyway, we're married now. So it worked. How I got to my style? I'm a weird artist in that everything I do looks a little different.

  Tony Tasset

  Girl, Art, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Today, everybody is always rushing. Designers have to make collections one after the other. Actresses have to make movies one after the other. They have to do all that in order to still be there - to still be out there. So to step away and be absent and to lose yourself completely and to really come back and find yourself again - that's something quite rare.

  Haider Ackermann

  Finding Yourself, Today, Losing Yourself

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People usually forget that fashion designers are not artists, but there is an artistic side that is very strong in my point of view. At the same time, you have to be so organized and so serious. There are two aspects that are quite big contradictions, strangely, in what I'm doing.

  Nicolas Ghesquiere

  Fashion, Strong, Artist

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• Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn't matter if it cost £200 or £2. I'm attracted to things rather than labels.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Shoes, Clothes, Labels

  "The close-up". Interview with Imogen Fox, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2007.

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• I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

  Bjork

  Trying, Pay, Stuff

  "Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.

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• I don't consider myself a fashion designer.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fashion, Fashion Designer

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• Designers don't put out the same sweater every year. They just keep creating.

  Elayne Boosler

  Years, Sweaters, Creating

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• Brazil has its own fashion identity. Many very talented Brazilian designers show every season at Sao Paulo and Rio fashion weeks.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Fashion, Identity, Sao Paulo

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• It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being 'greedy' by a gaggle of male designers who lived like Sun Kings.

  Julie Burchill

  Kings, Interesting, Males

  "Do women really need life tips from gay men?" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2008.

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