Design Style Quotes

I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.

My inspiration for interior design is more historical than traditional.

A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is.

As for design, I gravitate to traditional styles but mix it with an element of surprise. Whether it's a big sash bow in the back or an unexpected fabric, it all needs to work together.

I have this table in my new house. They put this table in without asking. It was some weird nouveau riche marble table, and I hated it. But it was literally so heavy that it took a crane to move it. We would try to set up different things around it, but it never really worked. I realized that table was my ego. No matter what you put around it, under it, no matter who photographed it, the douchebaggery would always come through.

If you look at WeWork as a brand I think the way we design has a more masculine vibe.

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

My personal style icon is Steve McQueen. My design style icon is a mix of everyone from Jackie O. to Lauren Hutton to my mother.

One thing I have that the majority of other designers don't is humor. That's distinctly my approach, and it was distinctly Franco Moschino's, too.

I grew up traveling quite a bit, and I think that, because of that, my design inspiration is a mish-mash of all different places and styles.

I've always really loved the '20s and the whole Art Deco time. I just think it was just the most amazing era for style and design.

I'm quite a fan of British designers.

In fashion, my inspiration comes from pop culture - the 1960s and the following years. Whereas in interior design, my influences are much broader.

Often it's a lack of time, not taste, that leads someone to hire a decorator. A good decorator/client relationship should be like a marriage. The time one puts in needs to be extensive. One needs to listen to them and understand what they like and how they live.

My designs at Ungaro are a lot more sexual, in more of an obvious way: my personal designers are a little bit more sideways.

My design preference tends towards warmth, comfort, and minimalism.

Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to make the work feel fresh.

It's very important to have a definitive style as a designer.

Drew definitely has great design taste. He knows what looks good in a space, and he knows how to put together a design.

I call my design style rustically modern. I like to take traditional or rustic features and fuse it into a more modern design.

My own style is pretty classic; I much prefer to design for others.

I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that's the kind of design I want, but also that that's the kind of designer I'll never be.