Designer Quotes

• Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

  Lauren Hutton

  Inspirational, Fashion, Years

  "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time" by Lauren Hutton, Krystin Arneson, Megan Gustashaw, Glamour, 2011.

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• Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.

  Neville Brody

  Technology, Design, Digital

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• A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to the user. A great designer can go beyond this and create a design that demonstrates that some of those constraints weren’t really there to begin with.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Design, Constraints, Stills

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• Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

  Ellen Lupton

  Technology, Design, Spacing

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.91, Chronicle Books

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• Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

  Erik Adigard

  Philosophy, Design, Crafts

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• Walk like you have three men walking behind you.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Men, Style

  "Oscar de la Renta's Legacy" by Vanessa Friedman, www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2014.

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• If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

  Henrik Fisker

  Art, Design, Branding

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• Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood.

  Ivan Chermayeff

  Hands, Design, Language

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• Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Blue Dress

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• Design is more than meets the eye. Design is about communicating benefits. Design is not about designers. Design is not an ocean it's a fishbowl. Design is creating something you believe in.

  Chuck Green

  Believe, Ocean, Eye

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• As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

  Harry von Zell

  Simple, Space, Cost

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• When we did 'Dynasty', it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!

  Aaron Spelling

  Thinking, Clothes, Dynasty

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• As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things.

  Colleen Atwood

  Beautiful, Clothes, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Stress, Pride, Suffering

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• We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, President, Actors

  Interview with Peter Halley, www.indexmagazine.com. 2004.

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• I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Thinking, Games, Gamer

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• If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Sexy, Character, Designer Clothes

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• I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.

  Judi Dench

  Looks

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• Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.

  Douglas Wilson

  Skills, Theatre, Realizing

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• For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.

  Ted Allen

  Clothes, Different, Episodes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.

  Samantha Mumba

  Hate, Crazy, Gucci

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• Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing.

  Portia de Rossi

  Awards, Dresses, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.

  Mink Stole

  Crew, Cases

  "EXCLUSIVE: MovieWeb talks to the cast of A Dirty Shame!". movieweb.com. September 13, 2004.

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• Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years.

  John Badham

  Thinking, Blue, Years

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• If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

  Guido van Rossum

  Design, Pitfalls, Language

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