Fashion Designer Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too, you have all kinds of folks - from flamboyant gay fashion designers and female Air Force pilots to the Taliban. A cross-dressed man used to be the top TV talk show host. It was actually quite radical. So the diversity of these societies is often lost on people.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Fashion, Gay, Men

  "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.

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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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  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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• I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.

  L'Wren Scott

  Fashion, Designer

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

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

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Women, Icons

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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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• 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 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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• 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 don't think there is the same space for fashion designers to create like Yves was doing it. So, it's that he's one of the last, great geniuses in fashion.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Fashion, Thinking, Space

  Source: collider.com

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• I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.

  Catherine Malandrino

  Fashion, Color, Age

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• I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked.

  Jason Wu

  Fashion, Years, Careers

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.

  Zaha Hadid

  Fashion, Artist, Thinking

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

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Naked, Well Dressed

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• I have to say that the identity of a fashion designer is international today.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Identity, Today

  Source: fashioninterviews.blogspot.com

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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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