Zac Posen Quotes

When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to cut patterns and sew.

I'm big into fashion, so after swimming, when I hang up the Speedo, I definitely want to get into fashion and start designing my own clothing line.

I like fashion. My mum was a dressmaker, believe it or not, so the consequence of that was that all my clothes were homemade, and I looked like a terrible mess until I was old enough to buy my own. But I love good tailoring.

I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there's nothing like wearing them. You buy them, you study them, and you start to understand how they're crafted.

You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.

I always loved fashion. My mother was a fashion designer, so it was always in my blood.

It was always my dream to be a dress designer, and my mother accepted that decision.

I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting.

I was obsessed with fashion when I was young. I thought fashion meant fashion design, and I thought I wanted to be a designer at some point.

Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

My mum was very conscious about fashion, and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer. And jeans.

I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a career growing up, but I loved clothes. I remember I saved all my money, and the first thing that I bought was a white blazer, which was to the horror to my parents. But I have always had a strange connection with clothing.

I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it.

From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

I design some of my own clothes now.

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy.

I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing some dresses at night.

Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.

Clothes are unique sculptures, dependent on a supporting human form and created to move.

I always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education.

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.

I generally feel like people that are doing the wardrobe know more about wardrobe than I do, and they have an overview.

My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer.