Designer Quotes

If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.

In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.

We'll work with any designer producing something linked to gastronomy. So a chair for the dining area, a van to move food around. Anything that's connected to the gastronomic process.

A magazine to have style, must need and understand and invest in what jingles - not jiggles - in designer jeans.

I'm not an artist. I'm a fashion designer of clothes.

The thing is you can be a great designer but you can also be lazy or not understand the other person's preferences or be more concerned about being a star than being good at what you do.

Clothing is art. It's an expression of how you feel. I think that it's not so much a question of a certain style or designer, but of finding the type of clothing that works well for you.

I think of a designer as a processor of information — like a scriptwriter or a novelist.

I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.

I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.

I'm a designer, not a businesswoman.

I want to be a designer for my time.

These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself a designer.

I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.

I don't own anything designer.

When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down - but you also really don't want to let them down.

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.

I would say I'm waiting for, I guess, designers to open up their vision.

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.

There's nothing funny about, 'Yeah, I took a First Class plane ticket and I went to some designer beach and made out with a Laotian slave girl.' Who cares?

My interest in fashion came from my interest in the body as a central cultural figure, not from admiring other designers - but of course I love Mason Martin Margiela, and I love Sybilla.

I asked Tyson Chandler who has to customize everything because he's 7-foot-1. He's said, always call a designer. You want to wear certain stuff but people don't make it.

I don't wear particular designers. I wear whoever fits me well.

Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?

I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.

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.

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 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.

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

When you want to be a designer today, you are in a subversion.

Mobile didn't create more unknowns for web designers. It just forced us to recognize the unknowns that were already there.

I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.

I don't like it when you look too styled and wear one designer from head to toe.

I was so fortunate to work closely with the designer Nolan Miller whilst on 'Dynasty' to create the wardrobe for Alexis Carrington Colby, and we had great fun sourcing outfits.

So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.

I'm a woman for all seasons. I mix 'n' match, do designer and high street - keep all my good pieces. I design all my evening and cocktail dresses most of the time as I dislike what is out there.

My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.

We are at the point where game designers have become celebrities due to the size of the market they serve.

But one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.

That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can feel very removed.

I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.

I brought a lot of images of pieces I got from my grandmother, pieces I collected over time and then we met with a designer and we tried to morph all my inspirations into one story.

I am creative in my living space - the designer in me helps that out.

I'm gonna be the first hip-hop designer and because of that, I'm gonna be bigger than Walmart.

She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.

I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not the designer. I understand the question, but not the questioner.

As a designer it's not my job to make people like me - I just want them to like my clothes.

One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.