Rachel Zoe Quotes

I'm not interested in making clothes that are not accessible.

I always believed that clothes should be designed to conform to our bodies and not our bodies to conform to the clothing.

Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.

There's a side to me that likes to make clothes for everyday. But I also think of fashion as an escape. It's like a dream. Even in an economy that isn't strong and where it's important to sell clothes, you have to make things that let people dream a little.

I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.

I am excited to partner with Aeropostale for my very own collection. It was a great experience to be able to work with them. Not only did I get to design an entire fashion line, but I got to do it at a great price point with quality clothes, both of which are very important to me.

I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.

It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.

I thought, 'It doesn't matter what that woman is wearing,' but then I realised actually it's our job as designers to make women smile; to bring them the chocolate without the calories.

It was never my desire to revolutionize fashion, to make clothes that could be in a museum. I want to create clothes that have a certain style, but I want to see them used. I want to see people enjoy the things I've made.

There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.

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

It's just really important I think for fashion to be affordable, because everyone should have the opportunity to wear cute things and be happy and comfortable in what they are wearing. That's definitely how I like to shop and how I like to think about clothes and fashion.

I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.

I always wanted to create clothing that was universal - easy to wear, to care for, and that was also beautiful. As such, I became interested in polyester, and its potential, from the beginning of my career.

For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.

I tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times.

I always wanted to bring something new to the table, and make clothes for women where they feel beautiful.

My designs are slightly subversive in their way; it can be in the cut or the colour, but they're always obtainable: they're not so difficult that a 40-year-old woman wanting to go to a cocktail party looking foxy and a little bit different in something well-made would be alienated by them.

I feel so many times with clothing lines, they don't talk to women to see what they want.

It's always a fantastic moment for me when someone wears one of our designs.

I create mood boards, and then we source fabrics and design the dresses. We are trend-led but also do our own thing! I want women to feel fabulous in our creations.

The idea was to have something wearable that fit with my reality, which was being a mom with two young kids and not always wanting to wear jeans. I still wanted to wear interesting clothes, and the options out there I found were either very expensive or very cheap. There was a big gap in the middle.

My brand reflects my personal style. I think my inspiration comes from wanting to make clothes I want to wear and enjoy.

Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.