Fashion Designer Quotes - Page 4

• Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly opened new perspectives. Visionary and avant-garde, his creations took their inspiration from both tradition and timeless hyper-modernity.

  Francois-Henri Pinault

  Fashion, Inspiration, Perspective

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• A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Women, Icons

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• I hope people will put aside Tom Ford the fashion designer and think about Tom Ford the filmmaker.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Thinking, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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  Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Courage, Thinking

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• There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

  Coco Chanel

  Time, Art, Business

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• My dad supports me. He said, "I wished when I was at your age I started doing rock and roll music. Then I wouldn't have to be a fashion designer." And I just laugh and keep it moving and appreciate his support.

  Richard Hilfiger

  Fashion, Dad, Moving

  Source: www.complex.com

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• As the president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, I represent the designers. And while we can by no means take the blame for eating disorders, we can play our part in addressing this important issue.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Fashion, Mean, Play

  "Fat is a fashionable issue" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2007.

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• I am always producing work, but there is always a sort of deadline where you have to finish work. I don't do it for a show. In other words, I am not like a fashion designer where I have a, you know - I have to put out the full line or I have to put out the summer line like that.

  Robert Barry

  Summer, Fashion, Lines

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• 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 always wanted to be a fashion designer and I learned costume illustration in high school. That was an incredible high school. It was more like a college. I'm moving more in that direction, just kind of merchandising my name.

  Diana Ross

  Fashion, Moving, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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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• That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Blue Dress

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

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• I love clothes. I don't know a woman who doesn't. But generally women are intrigued with fashion. Designers are almost making fun of us at times.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Fashion, Fun, Clothes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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, Designer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Art, Two

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• I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor.

  Gwendoline Christie

  Fashion, Book, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you look into the history of fashion, you'll discover that Gernreich was the leading name for years and the leading fashion designer both here in the United States and internationally.

  Harry Hay

  Fashion, Years, Names

  Source: www.progressive.org

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

  Tim Gunn

  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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• What's important to a fashion designer? It's much more than learning how to make clothes. In fact, that merely makes you a dressmaker. It doesn't make you into a fashion designer.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Clothes, Important

  "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 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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• Fashion is in the sky, in the street.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Sky, Dresses

  "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

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• A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Naked, Well Dressed

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• A wise friend once told me, 'Don't wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what they wear.'

  Tina Fey

  Wise, Fashion, Designer

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules.

  Zac Posen

  Fashion, Eras, Clothing Style

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• The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.

  Giambattista Valli

  Fashion, Icons, Silhouettes

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