Anastasia Soare Quotes

I've learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality.

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'

I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket.

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

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascinated.

I had used the stretch materials for years to shape the inside of garments I made for private clients. Then I just started using them on their own.

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 a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled all over London on the Tube looking for buttons. It was great.

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.

I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.

When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses.

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.

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

I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes.

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'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

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

Designing was always something I was interested in. I studied fashion design in high school as well as how to sew.

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.