Designer Quotes

The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a product and service is a designer's most valuable asset.

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.

I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.

On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing.

The media is looking every season for a designer to tell a story. I have a long story I have to tell, continuing fluently year after year.

The designer of my Emmy gown is donating my gown to the charity for an auction.

As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.

When you have a gown, there's much more to be concerned about. Where is this crease falling? Are you making a weird shape with the dress? Are you doing the designer justice? With a bathing suit, it's more about you and the mood you convey.

I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.

It's not what you spend but how you wear it that counts. The key is often to dress up inexpensive basics with accessories. Something like a beautiful designer bag or belt can make everything else look richer and more luxurious.

There are a ton of A-list stars I'd love to dress - fashionistas like Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson. Also, Cate Blanchett would be fun and fabulous. My picks vary by the day and how I'm feeling. But, as a new, young designer, I'm open to working with everyone!

My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.

I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.

I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy.

We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?

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.

I love being a fashion designer.

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

I wanted to be a designer since I was a kid, and I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed. I always thought that they were the most interesting people.

Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.

I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.

I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.

I hate to say it, but the truth is that the upscale line is where I get respect as a designer. The higher the price range, the higher the respect level from the industry, even though it's much easier to make a great $500 dress than a great $100 dress.

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.