Designer Quotes - Page 22

• I don't own anything designer.

  Grimes

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• My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.

  Grimes

  Block, Artist, People

  Interview With Durga Chew-bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  Salma Hayek

  Style, Important, Trying

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September 2003.

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• Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.

  Edith Head

  Growing, Today, Thanks

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

  Carolina Herrera

  Fashion, Sleep, Long

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• My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Girlfriend, Costumes, Theater

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman Interview - THE SAVAGES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 28, 2007.

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• I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.

  Chanel Iman

  Knights, One Day, Magazines

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• I guess when I look over my shoulder at other designers, I feel like people are so definitive. It's so clear to me what their aesthetic is, what they're projecting. And I look at my own work and I think, Who could ever decipher what the hell is going on?

  Marc Jacobs

  Thinking, People, Looks

  Interview with Calvin Klein, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 10, 2010.

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• I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Art, Real

  "WWD CEO Summit: Marc Jacobs". Interview with Jessica Iredale, wwd.com. January 9, 2013.

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• We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever.

  Elton John

  Shopping, Clothes, Forever

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• Designers send me clothes I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing.

  Norah Jones

  Clothes, Feels, Comfortable

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• You can't really have like high end designers for everything.

  Kim Kardashian

  Ends

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• I wanted to be a fashion designer.

  Heidi Klum

  Fashion, Fashion Designer, Wanted

  "Heidi Klum puts fashion aside as TV's 'Talent' judge". Interview with Eric Kelsey, www.reuters.com. June 7, 2013.

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• No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Mean, Artist, Thinking

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• I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.

  Adam Lambert

  Fun, Costumes

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• I love Ralph Lauren, just as a designer. I still think he could make some better sizes with his clothes, but I like the idea of his classic American style.

  Queen Latifah

  Thinking, Ideas, Clothes

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• Anytime you can promote young artists and designers is a cool thing.

  Dylan Lauren

  Artist, Young, Cool Things

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• You don't need money to look fabulous. There are so many awesome new designers, so many designers doing collections for mass retailers.

  Stacy London

  Needs, Looks, Fabulous

  Interview with John-John Williams IV, articles.baltimoresun.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

  Christian Louboutin

  Beautiful, Dream, Focus

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• I wanted to be a shoe designer, but I never thought it could be a profession. But what was the alternative? Doctor? Too dirty! Air-hostess? Maybe not! Then someone gave me a book on Roger Vivier, and, cheri, instantly I knew that was it!

  Christian Louboutin

  Dirty, Book, Doctors

  "Sole Mate" by Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.

  Kevin McCloud

  Successful, Theatre, Grew

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• As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

  Alexander McQueen

  Trends, Push Yourself

  "The Real McQueen" by Susannah Frankel, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 1, 2007.

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• There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.

  Alexander McQueen

  Games, Steps, Influence

  "The Real Mcqueen" By Susannah Frankel, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 1, 2007.

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• I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Movie, Games, People

  "Beyond the shoot-em-up: how gaming got killer stories" by Simon Parkin, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2014.

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• This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, People, Creative

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