Design Quotes - Page 98

Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.

Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast, Of which some days I with design have past; A part in April and a part in May Thou claim'st, and both command my tuneful lay; And as the confines of two months are thine To sing of both the double task be mine.

Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

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

But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.

As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.

I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence. I feel like people on the street today probably dress better than they did in the '50s.

With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

I would love, just once, to do costumes for a movie. I almost did some theater, but it is very different from what I am used to doing as a fashion designer.

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

What I'm doing now is having people with and around me to build what other designers built before - like Pierre Balmain with Josephine Baker, Audrey Hepburn, Dalida, Brigitte Bardot.

I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

Designers send me clothes I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing.

I'd love to design a school.

While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or evolution.

Aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.

Use design as a framework to bring order out of chaos.

In a way, my design works as much because the belt is comfortable for the user as it does because it is safer.

Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.

I am proud that my collections have received such praise, and I am even more proud to share the stage with so many talented designers.

As designers, we do so much with material and construction. It's really architectural; it comes close to building. A scent is so immaterial. It's really about emotion and sensation. Clothes are too, but it's not the same.

I don't feel French at all. That was never really a concern, and it's limiting to think that way. I think Paris is more of a playground for international designers, so I don't really feel French. And I don't really want to feel French.