Designer Quotes

• Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

  Lauren Hutton

  Inspirational, Fashion, Years

  "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time" by Lauren Hutton, Krystin Arneson, Megan Gustashaw, Glamour, 2011.

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• Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.

  Neville Brody

  Technology, Design, Digital

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• Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

  Paul Rand

  Death, Art, Simple

  "Learning PHP Design Patterns". Book by William Sanders (p. 105), 2013.

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• As a designer, I'm supposed to be provoking people's reactions, and getting people to see things differently. I think more of us should be doing this. Because yeah, maybe guys are not gonna want to wear my stuff, but they'll think that they can maybe wear something a little bit more than what they've been wearing. That's the only way things move forward.

  Thom Browne

  Moving, Thinking, People

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

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Designer Clothes, Adults

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.219, Vintage

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• One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Clothes You Wear, Black

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• Design is where science and art break even.

  Robin Mathews

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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• If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

  Red Adair

  Jobs, Thinking, Design

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• Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

  Paul Rand

  Art, Simple, Design

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• Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

  Robert L. Peters

  Inspiring, Art, Design

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• Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Technology, Design, Absence

  "Infographics and marketing: the good, the bad and the ugly" by Freddie Ossberg, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.

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• The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

  Paul Rand

  Technology, Design, Reassuring

  Paul Rand (2017). “Design, Form, and Chaos”, p.30, Yale University Press

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• Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Business, Work

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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

  Giorgio Armani

  Dream, Fashion, Artist

  The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2006.

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• 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, Artist, Creating

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• McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15.

  Thomas Friedman

  Mcdonalds

  "A Manifesto for the Fast World". www.nytimes.com. March 28, 1999.

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• I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer, and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

  Lady Gaga

  Jobs, Father, Real

  "Lady Gaga Hooks Up With Polaroid For 'Specialty Projects'" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. January 7, 2010.

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• No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Artist

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• Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.

  Spike Lee

  Photography, Directors, Looks

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• Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

  Henry Norris Russell

  Life, Dream, Men

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• But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Money, Artist, Financial

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• Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.

  Stanley Morison

  Moving, Successful, Design

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• I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.

  Julia Stiles

  Beautiful, Fashion, Vintage

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• I was into Barbie and designer jeans.

  Carson Kressley

  Jeans, Barbie

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Fashion, People, Recommendations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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