Stella McCartney Quotes

I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.

I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond to it immediately.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

Over the years, I've learned that you can have fun with the fabrics and other elements, but if it's not tailored right, you'll blow it.

One thing I learned is how much easier it is to write about clothes than it is to make them.

It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric - without a practical or visual reality.

For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.

My aim is to create the perfect dress!

I first met Michael Angel when he came to my office with a box of prints and asked me whether I thought he should make dresses from the prints.

Each individual garment has its own customizations based on a collaboration between us and the designer. We say what we think our woman wants, and they say, 'This is what we think we can do with our production.'

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

I do not decide that skirts shall be short or long. The shape of the dress itself often dictates the length.

I've always been interested in clothes and shopping, and I have a few friends who work in fashion.

I think about my friends all the time when I'm designing. That's always an arbiter. Would Katy wear this? Would Rihanna wear this? Would Sia wear it? Would Miley wear it?

Making your own clothes is great - but don't make everything, or I'll be out of a job!

It's really rare that you find a designer who's willing to dress people who maybe present more masculine in their womenswear.

Good catsuits should have multiple zippers; they'll have a top and a bottom one.

I don't make clothes for the critics.

Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality.