Designer Quotes - Page 7

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

There are so many young designers who need stock, who need my push. With the commerce, the one thing I knew is that I wanted to have things that were affordable. I was always one of those customers that would go to an amazing store and be like, "Um, what's the least expensive thing?"

I make films but I am trained as a designer. I come from this series of designers called critical designers, speculative designers.

It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.

I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer.

The only time this happened to me before was in Jil Sander in Berlin where they said, "We have nothing that will fit you." I said, "Yes, you do." And I found something great. This happens to me in Paris again and again and again. They don't carry anything over size 40 which is nothing, because I wear a size 42 or 44 but that's hard to find in Paris among the designer clothes. All stores are like that.

I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.

I've heard some designers talk about the design process being centred on invention, starting with a blank slate. I admire that and occasionally I'm capable of that, but I have to admit that I really have trouble working with completely open briefs.

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

I became a set designer for opera.

For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.

The main thing that 99designs is about is choice. Its a fantastic model that eliminates risk for small business owners and puts designers on equal footing.

There's strength in numbers. One designer isn't going to change everything. Everyone has to demand that their materials are being sustainably sourced. Just like how cosmetic companies won't test on animals, there have to be benchmarks that we can all adopt.

I don't consider myself a fashion designer.