Designer Quotes - Page 15

• When talking with a set designer the dialogue is more centered on locations, interior design, what I like and what doesn't work. There is a certain taste I'm drawn to and feel inspired by, and finding that inspiration is what keeps the conversation moving forward.

  Marc Forster

  Moving, Inspiration, Talking

  Interview with Octavio Molina, www.askmen.com. August 30, 2014.

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• There are some brilliant designers but their clothes only really suit 6 foot 20-year-olds.

  Joan Collins

  Years, Feet, Clothes

  "Truly Outrageous: Joan Collins on The Power Suit". Interview with Susan Cernek, www.glamour.com. September 10, 2009.

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• I never looked at magazines before I started modeling. I was 13 or 14 and none of my friends were into magazines. We were into the fashion of the day, though. Designer jeans were really popular - Sasson, Gloria Vanderbilt, Calvin Klein, Jordache. Once I started modeling, I began to learn about these things, and magazines helped me to understand who was who.

  Christy Turlington

  Fashion, Jeans, Magazines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother's a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going to do a line and dive into the fashion world.

  Christian Serratos

  Mother, Fashion, Long

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

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• Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Thinking, Talent, Moments

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• Fashion is about affordable luxury ... To succeed, designers need to be affordable, wearable, accessible, and aspirational.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Fashion, Luxury, Needs

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• The costume designer, her name is Anne Hardinge. She's done "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz." She's really comedic costume designer, which was right up my alley. She was a joy to work with. She was like fabulous Geena Davis. She was just floating with her red lip and kind of fabulous.

  Jerusha Hess

  Names, Joy, Hot

  "Interview: Jerusha Hess and J.J. Feild of 'Austenland'". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. August 22, 2013.

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• There are amazing designers like Riccardo Tisci (whom I consider like my godfather in the industry), who are aware that beauty isn't defined by being just one thing or perceived in a single way. Today we hear people's voices, thanks to social media, and that can change things. This change is happening right now!

  Maria Borges

  Voice, Media, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The idea that hunting is one against one is ludicrous. It's one animal versus the hunter, the manufacturer of the rifle, the bullet maker, the designer and manufacturer of the telescopic sight, the auto manufacturer who made the car the hunter got to the edge of the wild in, the maker of his waterproof shoes, the various manufacturers of his mittens, glasses, overcoat - and that's only the beginning of the list. The "sportsman" who shoots an animal should then make a speech, like the actor who wins an Oscar does, thanking the multitudes behind the scenes who made this "victory" possible.

  Dick Cavett

  Hunting, Animal, Winning

  Dick Cavett, Christopher Porterfield (1974). “Cavett”

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• I'm an unbelievable designer. I don't know how I know and just do these things. I just start sketching and then I just know the colors and I always know the forecast. I know green and purple are going to be hot. I was born to be a designer. I worked hard to be a tennis player, I don't work hard to be a designer.

  Serena Williams

  Hard Work, Player, Color

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• You can't statistically explain improbable things like living creatures by saying that they must have been designed because you're still left to explain the designer, who must be, if anything, an even more statistically improbable and elegant thing.

  Richard Dawkins

  Stills, Creatures, Improbable

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• Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.

  Fred Brooks

  Thinking, Design, Different

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• Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Jobs, Thinking

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• Having money hasn't changed me. If anything it's made my life worse. People come up to you who knew you before you were famous and who didn't come up to you before. I'm a clever designer. I can do what the client wants. But I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.

  Alexander McQueen

  Clever, Creativity, People

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• I don't think there is a particular responsibility on designers that is not on other professions... I think there's a responsibility for all of us to engage on all levels.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Responsibility, Thinking, Levels

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• If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God (or the Intelligent Designer) is simply immune to the normal demands of scientific explanation. To do so would be to shoot yourself in the foot. You cannot have it both ways. Either ID belongs in the science classroom, in which case it must submit to the discipline required of a scientific hypothesis. Or it does not, in which case, get it out of the science classroom and send it back to church, where it belongs.

  Richard Dawkins

  Intelligent, Feet, Discipline

  "One side can be wrong" by Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne, www.theguardian.com. September 01, 2005.

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• As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.

  Jason Wu

  Want, Term, Transformed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I guess I accidentally became a part of history. Honestly, when you're young and you're a designer, you have a goal, but that is not the kind of goal that you even think it's possible to achieve.

  Jason Wu

  Thinking, Goal, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The worst thing is to be a designer and create work that isn't honest. You have to be honest. Otherwise, you'll always be a reaction to what other people do and you'll always be one step behind.

  Jason Wu

  People, Steps, Honest

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 17, 2013.

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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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• The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.

  Azzedine Alaia

  Fashion, Crazy, Thinking

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• I think it's really important to make things your own in your voice. I started when I was 23, and in the beginning of my career, there was this expectation of a young designer being edgier, cooler, more downtown. But I was never that person.

  Jason Wu

  Thinking, Careers, Voice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A car designer is really a sculptor.

  Chris Bangle

  Car, Sculptors

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• Every movie I work with the costume designer to see what feels like the character, not what Columbus would wear but what is right for the character. Outside of the armored truck standard issue security guard uniform, this guy is trying to make ends meet. He might have one pair of jeans, the same boot, maybe changes his shirt but he doesn't have a walk-in closet full of things, so I wanted something comfortable that felt like the character.

  Columbus Short

  Character, Security Guards, Jeans

  Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 02, 2009.

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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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