Latest Olivier Theyskens Quotes from Interviews

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• I don't like to go beyond modernity because you think girls might be like that in five years, but in five years what I see now is going to be old; we are always going to go somewhere else. You have to bring a few novelties within what will remain.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Girl, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I love to be in New York. And I think anybody who's a designer, who says they're doing an urban collection, thinks about the streets of New York. I cannot do an urban collection thinking of Bangkok. Or Mexico. To me, it's totally instant, totally connected with what attracts me these days. But this resurgence of a modern, cool way of being dressed is something that stimulates me and is totally right for me. Even now I don't like to show something that is some futuristic utopia.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Thinking, Urban, Utopia

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I would love, just once, to do costumes for a movie. I almost did some theater, but it is very different from what I am used to doing as a fashion designer.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Fashion, Different, Designer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Making clothes that everybody can wear is also something that stimulates me a lot, because I have this edgy, fashion-y part, but I am also totally involved with a brand that is about how people dress, and what they want. And it's a whole other look you can have on the street. It's exciting because it speaks to the other part of my job and what my passion is. A designer wants to make something useful for as many people as possible.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Passion, People, Speak

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Everything I have is ready to wear, but I have the ability to have different options within the same brand. I have the Theyskens' Theory collection where it's a personal approach to how I build the collection where I fuse more fashion-y ideas and it has my name on it. So it's really something very research- and labor-intensive. And then I have the Theory brand where I infuse all points of view about fashion at large, and it's more global. It's really about making something succeed. You have an instant relationship with stores, and with sales teams, and people that are in the place.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Fashion, Team, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence. I feel like people on the street today probably dress better than they did in the '50s.

  Olivier Theyskens

  People, Design, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself. It also probably nourished my passion and my will to make fashion, because I've always felt that, because of having a big family to take care of, she sacrificed a bit of her femininity.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Mother, Fashion, Passion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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 by how the patterns economize the fabric.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Historical, Complicated, 19th Century

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I am more used to seeing my work like a big collection, and only part of it is being shown.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Historical, Sublime, Disappointed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com