Designer Identity Quotes

I'm a creative guy, a designer, a customer.

I don't consider myself a fashion designer.

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.

I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career.

There's no line between a designer and consumer.

For me I'm a luxury brand trying to prove to people and the industry that it's not about being a TV celebrity in any which way, it's about being a designer and having a business and being successful at that.

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.

When I do read something about a designer it doesn't alter my thoughts about their collection when I see it in person.

Most designers don't dress in fashion. They dress in an anonymous way so that people are just judging their work.

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 don't want to be a celebrity designer. I want to keep my personal life out of it.

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

I have fashion designers that I definitely respect. After working for a few years in the industry, you want to branch out and do your own thing and I think that's something that has always been important to me is strengthening the brand and just sticking to "this is who we are, this is our identity, this is who we're going to be". I definitely respect other designers but I don't necessarily have one that I look up to.

Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.

We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the 'writing style' of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed.

Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour.

I am the oldest young designer in New York City.

I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.

Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.

In fashion design, you can divide people into two groups. You have people who come with an aesthetic that is there forever, even if it evolves. Then you have people I call 'jumpers.' One season it can be this; the next season it's completely something else. I always knew I am more of a jumper.

I think what makes me different is that... I am comfortable with expressing my vulnerability. I think designers often want to just put the loveable ideas out there. Ones that are imaginative but not very introspective. It is more rare for a designer to explore his or her disappointments and moments of disillusion and doubt.

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.

For a century, everyone assumed that the iconic Tiffany lamps were conceived and designed by that American master of stained glass. Not so! It was a woman!

Often when I meet people and say I'm a designer, they say, 'Oh, a fashion designer.' Which is not a bad thing I suppose, a bit groovy.