Designer Quotes - Page 19

• I'm frequently introduced as a fashion designer, and I quickly say I'm not, and instantly people are incredibly disappointed and think that I'm some sort of charlatan who's been perpetuating this falsehood.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Thinking, People

  "Tim Gunn on interviewing Dolly Parton and going to Woodstock in penny loafers". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2016.

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• I've never said I'm a fashion designer.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Fashion Designer, Said

  "Tim Gunn on interviewing Dolly Parton and going to Woodstock in penny loafers". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2016.

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• Everywhere I go, I can't wear everything a designer creates. I'm a little more gritty.

  Rick Ross

  Littles, I Can

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I would really think twice about being a fashion designer if I was young right now, especially being an independent fashion designer the way I started it.

  Rick Owens

  Fashion, Independent, Thinking

  "Rick Owens Interviews Eugene Rabkin, Founder of StyleZeitgeist, On the State of Fashion". Interview With Rick Owens, www.highsnobiety.com.

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• In terms of talking with my collaborators as they came onboard - Jeannine Oppewall, our production designer, Dante Spinotti, our cinematographer, and so forth - I said to them, "Let's pretend that this is a place like Honolulu. Let's ignore the fact that all these other movies have been made here for decades and try to come at it with a fresh eye, as if it were an exotic city that people aren't that familiar with. And let's present our own view of it, create a world that's unique to this movie [L.A Confidential].

  Curtis Hanson

  Eye, Unique, Views

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I brought a lot of images of pieces I got from my grandmother, pieces I collected over time and then we met with a designer and we tried to morph all my inspirations into one story.

  Julia Restoin Roitfeld

  Inspiration, Grandmother, Stories

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I think color, for a costume designer, is one of your biggest storytelling devices.

  Alexandra Byrne

  Thinking, Color, Costumes

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• It's absurd how aspirants to designer-label colleges become obsessed with perfection so they can get into one. I'm not convinced it's worth prostituting yourself for that.

  Marty Nemko

  College, Perfection, Labels

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If I really think about what drove me from the beginning to become a designer, it is really the idea of trying to make everyday life a little bit better - to make it more functional, more desirable, to improve quality of life somehow.

  Christophe Lemaire

  Thinking, Ideas, Everyday

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I'm directing, I really try not to be tied to anything. I don't even have the sides in my hands. I have other things - ideas that I want to make sure I don't forget or that I want to accomplish. The endeavor isn't about propping up the screenplay; but about the communal effort of exploration from a lot of different departments - the actors, the DP, the costume designer - all these people and myself.

  Matt Ross

  People, Effort, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I enjoy different designers for different seasons and what they bring to it each and every season.

  Russell Westbrook

  Different, Enjoy, Seasons

  Source: wwd.com

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• I wasn't a very good illustrator so I became a designer.

  Paula Scher

  Very Good, Illustrators

  Source: es.scribd.com

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• What a designer does is he makes things possible that you didn't imagine could exist before, and it makes the world a better place. You know, it's a great thing to be doing. A fine artist does that, too, but they make the expression for themselves, not for others' use.

  Paula Scher

  Artist, Expression, Doe

  Source: es.scribd.com

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• I think that it's a great time to be a designer.

  Paula Scher

  Thinking, Great Times

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• As a designer, I love to explore user edge cases and figure out what appear to be rules.

  Eric Holmes

  Figures, Cases, Edges

  "What People Who Make Video Games Think Of Westworld". Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.gizmodo.com.au. November 11, 2016.

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• I have always been a big supporter and fan of independent designers in general.

  Kat Von D

  Independent, Fans, Bigs

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• That's a very privileged attitude and I think the ignorance is so strong there. When people say, "Oh please, I don't want to hear that conversation," it's because it makes them uncomfortable." But that's because they think it's all okay. If it was racist, I would move onto someone whose mind I could change, but it's mostly ignorance. So when someone says, "Oh, it doesn't matter," I not only make designers responsible but casting directors and modeling agencies for not pushing those other girls on to the designers.

  Bethann Hardison

  Girl, Strong, Attitude

  Source: time.com

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• I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.

  Domenico Gnoli

  Community, Social, Used

  Source: observer.com

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• I wanted to be a graphic designer from the time I was 15, without ever having actually met one. I lived in the mid-west, not in a media centre, and I didn't know anyone who did that for a living. It took me a while to find out what that thing I wanted to do was actually called, but once I sorted that out I got really interested in it.

  Michael Bierut

  Media, West, Mets

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• Sometimes I will give some very vague directions to the designer that I'm working with on a particular project and they'll come back and surprise me with something that really shows a lot of their own 'hand' in it. Other times I'll have a really clear idea about how I want it done and I'll draw it out pretty precisely and say 'make it look exactly like this' and it will be something where it looks like I can say it was 'fully my design'. The work can also range between the two.

  Michael Bierut

  Hands, Ideas, Two

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• I've heard some designers talk about the design process being centred on invention, starting with a blank slate. I admire that and occasionally I'm capable of that, but I have to admit that I really have trouble working with completely open briefs.

  Michael Bierut

  Design Process, Trouble, Invention

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• I think different designers have different points of view and different strong personalities can influence the way certain cities are perceived.

  Michael Bierut

  Strong, Thinking, Views

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• I think once the artistic world of the type designer merged with the scientific world of the computer programmer, you began to see this crossover.

  Michael Bierut

  Thinking, World, Computer

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• As I got older, my ambitions changed and I wanted to be a graphic designer. In form five, I did Art for CXC and got a grade 2 at the general proficiency level. I was devastated because I was aspiring for a grade 1. I took a break from art when I went to A level because I could not cope with the disappointment of my Grade 2. But I guess when you love doing something you just can't turn you back on it completely.

  St. Lucia

  Art, Disappointment, Ambition

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• I don't think generally speaking, there are a lot of innovators and inventors. Many of the designers take what exists already and update it or make it relevant for today. But true inventors have never been seen before. Bill Gates is a real inventor. I don't think fashion designers invent anything new. They innovate new ways to make fashion.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Fashion, Real, Thinking

  Source: wwd.com

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