Designer Quotes - Page 8

• I'm a designer. I make clothes and bags and shoes. I have a job that involves making creative choices, but I'm not a divinely inspired human being like an artist!

  Marc Jacobs

  Jobs, Artist, Shoes

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• I've always been a visual person, I'm formerly a graphic designer. I've always seen myself as an observer. I like to maintain objectivity and don't get too intimately involved in my subjects.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Objectivity, Graphic, Visuals

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The reason why many clients don't value design is because haven't had a designer prove to them the value of it. You need to prove it to clients who've hired a bunch of shitty designers and their business has not been that successful. When they hire a good designer, they see the difference.

  Jessica Hische

  Successful, Differences, Design

  Source: www.digitalartsonline.co.uk

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• In 2009, designer Tina Tangalakis went on a volunteer trip to Ghana and instantly fell in love with the country and its people. It was from that trip that Della was born, a company that provides jobs, education, and skills training to women in Ghana.

  Amanda Hearst

  Country, Jobs, Ghana

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• Graphic design was largely about communication in an artistic or creative manner, much like writing is used to convey ideas. Many designers completely miss that aspect of the "art." Some are completely satisfied with just making things pretty, without taking the communication element into consideration.

  Jeff Fisher

  Art, Communication, Writing

  Source: justcreative.com

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• Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in one person.

  Susan Orlean

  Guarantees That, Two, Talent

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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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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• The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.

  Richard Wright

  Book, Writing, Dark

  Richard Wright (1991). “Works”

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• Over 95% of the designers who have ever lived are alive today. Together, we have the power to define what professionalism in the communications industry will be about: helping increase market share or helping repair the World.

  David Berman

  Communication, Together, Live For Today

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• My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom

  Robin Wright

  Levi Strauss, Fruit, My Favorite

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• No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players.

  Will Wright

  Player, Games, Narcissism

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• I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.

  Grace Jones

  Fur

  "New Again: Grace Jones". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

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• I don't see myself as a pure fashion designer sending dress after dress down the runway but about wanting those watching my shows to aspire to a certain lifestyle.

  Matthew Williamson

  Fashion, Dresses, Lifestyle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• I'm always interested in collaborating with designers. I love Gaultier. I know that's kind of a high hope!

  Pamela Love

  Kind, Knows, Collaborating

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• 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'm a fan of designers and clothes that look beautiful, but more importantly, make me feel beautiful and confident. It's why I've always loved Stella McCartney, and more recently, Prabal Gurung. Their pieces are cool, yet timeless, and the fits are effortlessly flattering.

  Shay Mitchell

  Beautiful, Clothes, Pieces

  "Power Shopping: 'pretty Little Liars' Shay Mitchell" by Lindsay Flans, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 13, 2012.

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• I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.

  Ashley Jensen

  Hands, Designer Clothes, Bears

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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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• From since I could remember I've always been an artist, drawing, painting and so forth. I would also always draw made up rock n' roll characters in a band who each had their own style and personalities. I think by accident I was already becoming a fashion designer.

  Ashley Purdy

  Fashion, Character, Artist

  Source: marleymagazine.com

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• I actually wanted to be a fashion designer. I did a lot with the sewing machine at home - - for Barbie or for carnival or just for fun. Then I saw this ad in the newspaper. And as young girls sometimes do some stupid things, I filled in the coupon and sent in my photos.

  Heidi Klum

  Girl, Fashion, Fun

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• The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, America, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Designing is always on the mind of a designer, and as I was saying it's a sort of digestive process, so I usually keep it to myself unless I'm collaborating with someone because explaining all the things that are going on in your head can be quite exhausting, especially in the early stages of a project.

  Christian Louboutin

  Design, Mind, Projects

  "interview with shoe designer christian louboutin". Designboom magazine Interview, www.designboom.com. May 21, 2014.

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