Designer Quotes - Page 29

• I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper, either!

  Kanye West

  Real, Rapper, People

  "I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper, either!" by Adelle Platon, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 21, 2016.

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• Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! We love Versace. Versace is the greatest designer of all time!

  Kanye West

  Versace, All Time

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• The creatives, they want to connect with people. These artists, the clothing designers, they want to connect with people the same way that music gets to connect with people. But the cost of silk is too expensive. And they won't lower their quality levels. So I can spend $2 million on a record and give it out in a democratic way. They could spend all their time making the greatest dress in the world, and it's just impossible to hand-make that many.

  Kanye West

  Artist, Hands, People

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• Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.

  John Doerr

  Mean, Ties, Molecules

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• I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.

  Alessandra Ambrosio

  Mentor, Lucky, World

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• Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.

  Alexa Hampton

  Dream, Reality, Masculine And Feminine

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• If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

  Edward Tufte

  Practice, Design, Firsts

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• On a global picture, if you look at the evolution of the shopping business model, many consumers tend to ask for faster shopping, which explains why e-commerce is so successful. I think the fashion clients will be more and more demanding of uniqueness and mix, match, and create-your-own-look silhouettes, as opposed to head-to-toe designers looks. Limited collections are very important, in my opinion. They put ready-to-wear at a different level, and they create pleasure and individuality.

  Laure Heriard-Dubreuil

  Fashion, Successful, Thinking

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• I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer. I'm the rapper. I'm the visionary. I'm the music producer. I'm the executive producer. I'm just going to end it off to be poetic: I'm the future of music.

  Kanye West

  Thinking, Rapper, Visionaries

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• As a designer it's not my job to make people like me - I just want them to like my clothes.

  Keith Michael

  Jobs, Clothes, People

  Source: movieweb.com

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• People always think that designers hate each other. And we're certainly a competitive lot, but we also enjoy each other's company. No one else knows what you're going through other than another designer.

  Michael Kors

  Hate, Thinking, People

  "Exclusive: Michael Kors' Lifetime Achievements". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. September 13, 2010.

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• The craziest thing about fashion people in general, not just designers, is that it's always, "Oh my God, you lost weight! I love your hair!" Or "Oh, you're so tan!" Or, "You're so skinny! I love your shoes!" These are fashion icebreakers. Everyone's always looking at each other.

  Michael Kors

  Fashion, Love You, Hair

  "Exclusive: Michael Kors' Lifetime Achievements". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. September 13, 2010.

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• All changes in clothes rise out of the lives of the people who wear them. The function of the designer is simply to see a little ahead of time what the people want, and to provide it. No designer can start anything really new and different unless there is a public all ready for it.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Fashion, Clothes, People

  Elizabeth Hawes (1939). “Men can take it”

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• Every designer has to stand behind and believe in what they are creating.

  Charlotte Ronson

  Believe, Creating, Behinds

  "Arizona 20 Years: Charlotte Ronson". Interview with Miguel Enamorado, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.

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• I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning. Actors come into the film and do things you never even imagined. Production designers come in, the director of photography lights it in a way that you never imagined. So, it's always evolving, always exciting.

  Peter Jackson

  Photography, Light, Directors

  "Comic-Con 2011: Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Interview ADVENTURES OF TINTIN; Spielberg Says Jackson Is Scheduled to Shoot the Sequel". Interview with Jason Barr, collider.com. July 22, 2011.

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• Everything has a personality: everything sends an emotional signal. Even where this was not the intention of the designer, the people who view the website infer personalities and experience emotions. Bad websites have horrible personalities and instill horrid emotional states in their users, usually unwittingly. We need to design things-products, websites, services-to convey whatever personality and emotions are desired.

  Donald A. Norman

  Emotional, Views, People

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• Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great - besides me, of course.

  Oscar de la Renta

  New York, Thinking, Courses

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• I've always worked closely with the designers and whoever's making the costumes. Comfort is the last thing you want on your mind when you're competing. In an ideal situation, you'll have something where you'll put it on and you're fine and you don't have to worry about it at all.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Worry, Mind, Comfort

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• What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.

  Kellan Lutz

  Thinking, Keys, Design Process

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• Designers and photographers still want to work with me and I'm grateful for that. I don't know how long I'll carry on - as long as they'll have me.

  Linda Evangelista

  Grateful, Long, Want

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• I wear a lot of black, knitwear, skinny jeans and very high heels. My mum used to work for a fashion designer making knitwear, so she knits me lots of chunky scarves, hats and gloves, which I love.

  Katie McGrath

  Fashion, High Heels, Jeans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

  Issey Miyake

  Bombs, Want, Atomic Bomb

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• Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.

  Oleg Cassini

  Fashion, Care, Today

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• In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

  Fede Alvarez

  Art, Guy, Another Life

  "Filmmaker Fede Alvarez digs up scares with 'Evil Dead'". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. April 4, 2013.

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• I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.

  Trudi Canavan

  Lonely, Art, Jobs

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