Venus Williams Quotes

I've always wanted to dress Cate Blanchett because I think she's so stylish.

After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture.

I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me.

I have always been attracted to clothes designed by women. Coco Chanel, Vionnet, Norma Kamali, Donna Karan. They have a little more - how do I put it? - understanding.

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 love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.

I design some of my own clothes now.

I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.

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

I'd love to do a fashion label in the future. I've been thinking a lot recently about maybe making a line of little dresses, so maybe one day.

I definitely want to design clothes at one point.

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.

I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.

When my mother did fittings for her clients, I was hiding, looking at these beautiful ladies try on these fantastic clothes. I was dreaming as a small child to try these clothes on myself.

Oh my God, the graduate shows in London are so important! I still remember going to see John Galliano's graduate collection - that was an event I'll never forget.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design.

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.

So many people are following fashion now. It's become fashion-tainment.

I absolutely adore Alessandra Rich, I think her dresses are stunning and she really knows how to cut and dress the female shape. Her stuff is really beautiful, stylish and a little bit quirky. I love it all!

The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris.

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.