Cody Simpson Quotes

I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.

I may not be in the office as much as I was at the start of the business but when a new range is launched - and we have two, a spring/summer and an autumn/winter collection - each year, all designs come through me first to make sure I am happy with them.

My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

I really see myself continuing to design clothes, fragrances.

For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff.

I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.

I want to combine a business major with studies in clothing and textiles.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

My favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection.

I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about.

I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.

I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.

I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.

Watching my dad, Ralph Lauren, design clothes when I was young, I was always inspired.

I like wearing good clothes. Some of my friends who are into making clothes told me since I was already playing with my own brand of bat sticker, I should make a foray in fashion. The idea has worked very well.

When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an inch and down an inch, changing it from one shade of red to another shade of red. So it's the same as any creative process. The result is what we see, but the process is really labor intensive and work.

'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store.

I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job.

I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.

One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's very glamorous work.

In Paris, we call the people who make clothing 'couturiers' - they develop new clothing items - but actually, the work of designing is to make something that works in real life.

In fashion, you need to present something new every six months, but it takes time to study things. Development is very important.

As soon as the show is over, I always think, 'How will the woman I design for go forward?' It's so important to start quickly because I can't let her get away.

I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.