designer mindset Quotes

If you are a new, upcoming designer, you've got to think of new, cool ways to make the industry look at you. Don't just get stuck in a rut, show your clothes, and be like, 'You should like this.'

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.

Maybe it's because I'm a designer, but when I am in a state of excitement, everything is so sharp and colorful and amazing, and I can look at blue and I see the yellow in it and the green in it, and the green-blues, the yellow-blues, so.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.

Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads.

When I first started, it was a dirty word to say you made clothes for people to wear... I was a little ashamed of it. You didn't always feel you were this amazing creative force.

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.

I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.

That era of designers being away with the fairies is gone... You've got to live in the real world.

I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.

I love everything I design.

In designing for the first lady, I tried to sort of be in her shoes, but I didn't really look at her as an important political figure. I looked at her as a woman who would like to wear a beautiful dress to an important gala.

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

As a designer, I'm not interested in trend.

Fashion remains closest to my heart. I get genuinely excited by my collections - I never wanted to be a businessman.

My father is an architect, so I often think like a designer or an architect. I remember when I was admiring buildings, I would look up at them and see this perspective and this awesome power of the monument in front of me.

I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

My advice to the 10 year old daughter is: fashion happens in a context. It's societal, it's cultural, it's historic, it's economic, and it's political. So all of her studies, everything that is happening in the world, all needs to be channeled through her in order to be a good designer.

You need to be curious one way or another as a designer. Your eye has to stay curious. I look at people and think about how they live. I think about bodies.

I never thought of myself as being limited to fashion. I'm a designer, and if you have a vision, you can apply that to anything.

The only way I work as a designer is to consciously avoid specialisation.

Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place. It's like voodoo; we don't want things that are soaked in blood, sweat, and tears. I adore life, and I'm very easygoing - and it shows in my work.