Quotes & Sayings About Designer Fashion

I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it. — Ann Demeulemeester

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite. — Karl Lagerfeld

Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer. — Lori Loughlin

What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up. — Karl Lagerfeld

I do my job like I breathe - so if I can't breathe I'm in trouble. — Karl Lagerfeld

I don't gravitate toward any one designer because I think of fashion as the costume of the everyday woman. — Kerry Washington

I drive around on my scooter in Milan alone - we don't have bodyguards or anything like that. I am a fashion designer, not a celebrity, and although I get stopped for autographs and the like, I don't think I am famous. — Stefano Gabbana

My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he's so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone. — Adriana Lima

Don't you think that a lot of designers get into fashion because they have something about themselves that they don't like? — Narciso Rodriguez

Fashion fades...style is eternal"
Yves St Laurent — Nicole Jenkins

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it. — Marc Jacobs

Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away ... His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion. — Diane Von Furstenberg

There is no better designer than nature. — Alexander McQueen

Graceful beauty is a modest appearance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As an industrial designer, you design the thing by yourself, and then it goes away from you, whereas fashion is in constant relation to the body and to psychology. It makes it more complicated, and it makes it more challenging. — Raf Simons

I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer. — Anna Sui

I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares. — Andre Balazs

I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer - you do not want to be stuck in the same rut. — Donatella Versace

I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work. — Donatella Versace

With the traditional six-month lead time on the delivery of international show content, designer collections can be outpaced by the so-called fast fashion chains. H&M, Topshop and Zara, or even Target and J. Crew, would have their versions for sale before the designer looks hit the stores. — Suzy Menkes

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work. — Karl Lagerfeld

If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled. — Christian Lacroix

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! — Karl Lagerfeld

I don't consider myself a fashion designer. — Manolo Blahnik

I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant. — Francisco Costa

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible. — Jean Paul Gaultier

I wouldn't be a good model for any designer's idea of what fashion is. — Robin Wright

I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor. — Gwendoline Christie

Fashion can always be a part of your life no matter what shape or size you are. You don't need to feel like you have to fit into a box because you aren't a certain size that your favorite designer carries. — Hayley Hasselhoff

I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars' costume designer, Mandi Line. — Lucy Hale

It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear. — Lori Loughlin

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? — Tom Ford

Fashion is very judgmental. It's something where you have to be careful. I have a long way to go before I can be a designer. I'd love to one day, but we'll see. — Sloane Stephens

Anna Wintour hadn't been to any of McQueen's shows, and McQueen didn't like it. McQueen said American Vogue could borrow the dress only if they flew it to New York and back, in its own seat, with an escort. It was a fuck-you and they took it, and the dress was shot by Richard Avedon. "Fashion people haven't got any brains," McQueen said. — Maureen Callahan

No one ever said 'no' to me about anything. No one ever told me anything was wrong. Never. No one ever said, 'You can't be a fashion designer.' No one ever said, 'You're a boy and you can't take tap-dancing lessons.' No one ever said, 'You're a boy and you can't have long hair.' — Marc Jacobs

The only rule is don't be boring. — Paris Hilton

When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career. — Amy Chua

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality. — Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion today is available to everybody in a way that it's never been before: you've got every designer you've ever heard of working for H& or Target. That's fantastic. — Anna Wintour

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born. — Karl Lagerfeld

You could have fucked me 'til your uncut, overexposed on the blogs, 'too ginormous for my snatch' pecker fell off. And I'd still no way never ever in a thousand years sell, loan, sample you my Easton. And to answer your question, I run my company with my pussy, and twenty-four other pussy-sporting employees. Easton girls do not allow dickheads or cocks in our fashion world. Period. — Avery Aster

I think someone's biggest competition is themselves. I stand out as a 'fashion' designer and not to be confused with, (people who call themselves 'clothing' designers, who just print designs or logos on pre-existing t-shirts), because what I have created is custom fashions that are a personal extension of myself and my personality. It's pretty unique since there is only one of me. — Ashley Purdy

Designer Marc Jacobs ended his sixteen-year tenure at Louis Vuitton with a spring 2014 collection that celebrated fashion in its purest and least complicated form - as majestic, superficial beauty. — Robin Givhan

Photography obviously lends itself so well towards fashion. It's capturing that moment and that inspiration, and as a designer you are constantly walking through the world assimilating those visual references you have and so being able to solidify that into a photograph and keep it on your mood board is essential to creating a collection. — Georgina Chapman

Absurdity and anti - absurdity are the two poles of creative energy. — Karl Lagerfeld

I had a dream about you. At first you were a mannequin, and I was a fashion designer. Then, inexplicably, we switched roles and I became the mannequin. But instead of putting clothes on me, you laughed at my nakedness, and you sold me to the owner of a sex shop. — Dark Jar Tin Zoo

I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing. — Ralph Lauren

I always say if I weren't a fashion designer, my other dream job is being a rock star! — Tommy Hilfiger

I'm a man, I'm not just a fashion designer. — Stefano Gabbana

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman. — Karl Lagerfeld

I didn't long to be a designer. I always liked fashion, but it was always a bit sleeping in me. — Carolina Herrera

I put pressure on myself to propose something new - I think it's the minimum that you can do as a fashion designer. — Nicolas Ghesquiere

People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing. — Zaha Hadid

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them — Karl Lagerfeld

There are so many women throughout the world who appreciate beautiful design and have the budget to buy designer fashion but sometimes have a hard time finding the things that they really want or that suit their lifestyle or their culture or whatever it may be. — Aslaug Magnusdottir

Satan is both a fashion designer and an interior designer. He first appeals to the eye and then shouts, "Gotcha!" Then he goes to work on the "inside job. — Billy Graham

I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go. — Iggy Azalea

As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three or six months. When you think about it, it's so intense. — Gaspard Ulliel

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good. — Vivienne Westwood

The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur Dior. Dior himself was a gallerist before becoming the revolutionary fashion designer we all know. — Delphine Arnault

My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model. — Paige Butcher

China is exciting because it is an extremely curious and interested market. What more can a designer ask for? The client here is bold and willing to try new things, which a country with a long fashion history wouldn't dare. France or England is weighed down by all these rules, elaborate etiquette, do's and don'ts. Things here move incredibly quickly. — Michael Kors

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists. — Jil Sander

I love being a fashion designer. — Roberto Cavalli

Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not. — Alexander McQueen

Do you know anything about fashion magazines? Being treated like superficial bimbos by men like you, and having to write about designer brands. Do you know what that feels like? — Suh Jung

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress. — Karl Lagerfeld

When I told my sister, who was a fashion designer in college, what I wanted to do, she said I was crazy. But once I got started, I couldn't turn back. Kimberly Goodwin, Snapping Turtle Kids — Holly Hurd

I'm a fashion designer. What I do is artistic, but I'm not an artist because everything I do is destined to be sold. That's not to say that you can't be an artist and a fashion designer. I think some designers are artists. — Tom Ford

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded. — Tom Ford

Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you. — Ralph Lauren

I am always producing work, but there is always a sort of deadline where you have to finish work. I don't do it for a show. In other words, I am not like a fashion designer where I have a, you know - I have to put out the full line or I have to put out the summer line like that. — Robert Barry

An athletic man, or whatever you want to call him, will only look good in a very classic suit, a pair of classic jeans, athletic clothes or simply naked. Forget fashion. This is not going to happen, unless you want to look like a Chippendales dancer in designer clothes. — Hedi Slimane

I saw my potential as artistic director, which is very different from designer. Fashion companies might have $200 million to $300 million in annual sales - Hugo Boss has €2.5 billion. I have to create a world that is believable and also relevant in 7,000 sales points around the world. — Jason Wu

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. — Karl Lagerfeld

Intuition, if you are fashion designer is really the key to everything. I just really have a feeling it's the right moment in time to create a new business model. Obviously I have facts and figures that could back that up. It isn't a gamble; it's a calculated risk. — Monita Rajpal

When I was writing my first draft, and feeling grandiose, I e-mailed an artist/clothing designer I know and suggested we collaborate on a fashion line inspired by the outfits my characters wore. I regret that we never did that. — Heidi Julavits

It's a fact of life that how you dress affects how you are perceived and whether your contribution to a meeting is registered as worth listening to. It was most alarming the way people's attitudes changed when I started wearing my designer suits to committee meetings. Obviously, it's not just the clothes that count; you have got to have something worth saying. But it si true that some people's views are dismissed before they speak because others perceive them as just a secretary! — Stephanie Ellis

I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make her look her best. Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on. — Oscar De La Renta

From since I could remember I've always been an artist, drawing, painting and so forth. I would also always draw made up rock n' roll characters in a band who each had their own style and personalities. I think by accident I was already becoming a fashion designer. — Ashley Purdy

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce. — Karl Lagerfeld

I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I just have to remember that as long as I'm doing it I'm living the dream. — Marc Jacobs

I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good. — Zac Efron

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12. — Alexander McQueen

I do look at fashion, and I love going to Opening Ceremony and seeing what they have. Seeing what Jeremy Scott is doing. And this designer Bernhard Wilhelm. Proenza Schouler. — Jim Drain

I never looked at magazines before I started modeling. I was 13 or 14 and none of my friends were into magazines. We were into the fashion of the day, though. Designer jeans were really popular - Sasson, Gloria Vanderbilt, Calvin Klein, Jordache. Once I started modeling, I began to learn about these things, and magazines helped me to understand who was who. — Christy Turlington

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. — Nate Ruess

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step. — Karl Lagerfeld

Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman. — Tom Wolfe

I always loved fashion. My mother was a fashion designer, so it was always in my blood. — Melania Trump

In this funny debut, flashy Filipino fashion designer Boy Hernandez sees his American dream become a nightmare when he's ensnared in a terrorist plot and shipped to Guantanamo. Gilvarry nails the couture scene, but Boy's rough journey from Manolo to Gitmo is no joke. — Andrew Abrahams

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore. — Alexander McQueen

I always wear rings and cuffs from Made Her Think because designer Meredith Kahn is my friend and is one of my fashion idols. Everything she creates is really fresh. — Jessie Baylin

I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer. — Georgina Chapman

I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and eventually burnt-out politician, or the owner of a small bistro. But I fear that, without poetry, I would have simply been going through the motions. — Denise Duhamel

I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time. — Karan Johar

Time is my biggest luxury. Finding time to do things outside of fashion, which I think for a designer is incredibly important. — Phoebe Philo

Brizo has been my single biggest sponsor since I began as a designer. Brizo wanted to be involved in many different areas of design - they had already worked with several architects, and fashion was an area they were interested in moving into. — Jason Wu

I believe that it's very important to get to know people with whom you can have a substantive dialogue about design and its development. In addition, read everything about fashion that you can get your hands on. A palpable point of view is what makes a designer, so you need to be confident about yours. — Tim Gunn

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory. — Karl Lagerfeld