Garment Construction Quotes

When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.

If I ever have to return to dressmaking I still have that possibility.

After months of preparation working with a stylist who explained to me how a fashion house runs and the process of making a dress, I developed a respect for the patience and skill it takes to design these dresses.

I wanted to be a fashion designer.

I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

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.

I've always wanted to design clothes.

My father was a dress cutter, and my mother was a tailoress, so I was brought up to appreciate a good frock.

For myself, I went into an industry I wasn't educated on, and I thought, 'Hey, yeah, let's do this. Awesome.' And I've really had to educate myself in the fashion world: undergarments, fabrics, and learning their language, but it's been really great.

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.

People don't necessarily realise that there can be just as much work on a quiet jacket as an overblown gown.

Clothing was something I always wanted to do. I've been pulling tear sheets from magazines since I was a little girl.

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

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

I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.

Making your own clothes is great - but don't make everything, or I'll be out of a job!

Fashion designing involves a lot of work, and, as opposed to the general perception, it is different from costume designing for films. While a fashion designer can take up a costume designer's role, it is not possible vice versa.

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me.

While choosing a fashion show, I take into consideration the designer and the collection. Then only I said yes to do a show.

I've always loved fashion, but it's not what I set out to do.

I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.

I wore Armani Prive to Cannes, and that was incredible. The craftsmanship is something I never understood until I wore it: the structure, the integrity of the fabrics, the colours, how things photograph.

Fabric is the foundation of a collection.