Jason Wu Quotes

We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times.

My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything.

I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.

My cats are really sassy and sophisticated, but most importantly, they are picky.

Buy things you truly love, things that are special, but not a lot of them. It’s about value, not quantity.

I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career.

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.

I didn't understand anything about fashion until I moved to Canada when I was 9. That's when I learned English and was exposed to fashion magazines like Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue.

I love the idea of working with women because I always feel like a man designing womenswear needs women around him to really have a sense of what they're doing.

Being feminine in the way you dress doesn't have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career.

Actually, I'm probably 99-and-a-half percent plastic now.

I always have the TV on. When there's no TV, I play music. I like having noise. I think that's why New York is so suitable for me, because it's never really fully quiet.

I love the romance of Paris. I love Angelina [tearoom and pastry shop]. I always get a Mont-blanc [pastry] there.

When I was growing up, you sort of did the unthinkable. You did something that has never really been replicated.

For a while, I just thought that I wanted to be an illustrator because that's all I wanted to do. I also did some sculpting. It was always very artsy and very feminine, everything that I did.

I guess I accidentally became a part of history. Honestly, when you're young and you're a designer, you have a goal, but that is not the kind of goal that you even think it's possible to achieve.

I miss All Stars, by the way. I was just telling people: how am I going to get by until January?

You're always in the mode of creating the next season. It's so fast, and in two months, the collection you just did is already old, and it's always next, next, next.

This is the hardest thing I've ever done, being in fashion business, because that's what it is at the end of the day, a business, and you have to make sure it works.

Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasnt always translated to the streets.

Anyone who knows me knows that I don't know anything about politics. Every time I go to Washington, I feel like I'm in Legally Blonde.

I love a little bit of glamour and I love tall girls.

The worst thing is to be a designer and create work that isn't honest. You have to be honest. Otherwise, you'll always be a reaction to what other people do and you'll always be one step behind.

I had a hard time in middle school. I was never really quite me until I was 16 or 17, and things like bullying didn't matter anymore.

I need to feel like I'm part of something. I need to feel part of the world when I go to sleep.

As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.

My mom is a really good cook. We used to make dumplings together.

There is always going to be that luxury customer out there. I have clients who buy $10, 000 dresses and clients who buy $60 dresses. It's not so much about the money. Design is a mentality.

I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so I'm used to working with plastic and different things. I had an innate interest in objects.