Designer Quotes - Page 12

• The hats are tough. I've got a weird head, so believe me, there were a lot of hats. Penny [Rose], our costume designer, who I knew from other jobs said, "Badge, that looks terrible on you. Hold on. No, we can't do that one."

  James Badge Dale

  Jobs, Believe, Rose

  Source: collider.com

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• Very few designers today design - it's very important to be able to do your own sketch on paper and then explain [your vision] to the fabric cutters. Instead, lots of designers drape - it's the new way.

  Valentino Garavani

  Design, Vision, Important

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• She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.

  Kanye West

  Kim, Muse

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• I don't gravitate toward any one designer because I think of fashion as the costume of the everyday woman.

  Kerry Washington

  Fashion, Thinking, Everyday

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• No one is calling any of these designers racist. The act itself is racist. There were more black models working in the Seventies than there are in 2013. This a time when silence is not acceptable at all. If the conversation cannot be had publicly in our industry, then there is something inherently wrong.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Silence, Black, Racist

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• I feel best in soft and natural materials such as cotton and silk. I wear collections from all designers. They all have outstanding cuts and extremely pleasant materials.

  Laetitia Casta

  Cutting, Cotton, Natural

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• As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.

  Tom Ford

  People, Giving, Creative

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• I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers.

  Lanford Wilson

  Writing, Color, People

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• 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 a product and an audience.

  Ivan Chermayeff

  Fashion, Self, Bridges

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• It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.

  Nate Berkus

  Jobs, Antiques, Malls

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• First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.

  Nate Berkus

  Book, Design Work, Television

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• If you are able to see on a monitor what it's actually going to look like and have that kind of feedback informing your decisions, then you're bringing back a lot of the decision-making process of the designer, the director of photography and the director away from the post-production process and bringing it back into the actual capturing of the event on film.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Photography, Decision, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• In a lot of cases, you think that the art director and the production designer designed and built this amazing set, when in fact they only built part of it and were able to extend it using all of this fabulous technology.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Art, Technology, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.

  Vincent Paronnaud

  People, Costumes, Made

  Source: collider.com

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• Be able to take any job that gives you experience on a film. Don't just think that you have to be in one department or the other, because through working on one and seeing what other people do in the movie makes you realize what your role is if you become a costume designer.

  Colleen Atwood

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• When designers intentionally trick users into inviting friends or blasting a message to their social networks, they may see some initial growth, but it comes at the expense of users' goodwill and trust. When people discover they've been duped, they vent their frustration and stop using the product.

  Nir Eyal

  Frustration, People, Growth

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.31, Penguin

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• People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.

  Zaha Hadid

  Fashion, Artist, Thinking

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• I like the new shoe designers. Not all of them - there are really bad ones too. But I go to the colleges with these kids for lectures, as an honorary professor or whatever, and this Chinese girl I like very much who I give the award to says to me, "You don't know how much you inspired me to do shoes." And I'm glad that I convey that kind of desire to people when they see my bloody shoes.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Girl, Kids, College

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.

  Tim Gunn

  Ambition, Needs, Resources

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• A good designer will actually design the company.

  Donald A. Norman

  Design, Good Design, Company

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• I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.

  Elle Fanning

  Dancing, Design, Singing

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• I support British designers as much as I can.

  Cat Deeley

  Support, British, I Can

  "Cat Deeley: five things I know about style" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2010.

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• I am a bit in love with a new designer George Hobeika; I have worn him a couple of times on the carpet. Ralph Lauren is another one I really have fun with.

  Darby Stanchfield

  Couple, Fun, Lauren

  "5 Minutes With... Darby Stanchfield of 'Scandal'". Interview with Rebecca Petro, www.flare.com. October 3, 2013.

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• I do have designers that I love to wear, like Philip Lim and Marc Jacobs whose stuff I know will look good on my body. But still, I always like to express myself by changing things up.

  Rashida Jones

  Looks, Body, Stuff

  "Rashida Jones ‘I Love You, Man’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. March 9, 2009.

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• I'm first and foremost a biological explorer. I've looked all over the world for answers. Secondly, I'm an ecological designer, and by that I mean I attempt to work with constellations of nature to create technological forms. So I'm part engineer, part ecologist, part inventor, really.

  John Todd

  Mean, Answers, World

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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