Designer Quotes - Page 23

• I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers.

  Stevie Nicks

  Grace, Looks, Want

  "Stevie Nicks: Wild at Heart" by Christine Lennon, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 19, 2011.

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• 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.

  Camille Paglia

  Past, Reality, Years

  "How Capitalism Can Save Art" by Camille Paglia, www.wsj.com. October 05, 2012.

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• When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Shoes, Clothes, Lovely

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

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• Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.

  Paul Rand

  Color, Design, Ingredients

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• I am proud that my collections have received such praise, and I am even more proud to share the stage with so many talented designers.

  Nicole Richie

  Proud, Praise, Share

  "Q&A: Nicole Richie Showcases Winter Kate on NBC" by Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 10, 2012.

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• With clothes, I like mixing what different designers do until it becomes a personal expression of how I'm feeling that day.

  ASAP Rocky

  Expression, Clothes, Feelings

  "A$AP Rocky's Beautiful Dark Twisted Wardrobe" by Caroline Mccloskey, www.gq.com. July 10, 2012.

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• Sometimes I feel like what's hard for fashion designers to do is take looks from off the runway and actually put it into existence, into reality. That's really the hard part.

  ASAP Rocky

  Fashion, Reality, Looks

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• I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.

  Mickey Rourke

  Good Relationship, Billionaire

  "Rourke steady". Interview with Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2009.

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• I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.

  Rachel Roy

  Thinking, Color, Mixing

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• Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

  Rachel Roy

  Long, Honest, Lasting

  "Estelle and Rachel Roy Talk About Their New Jewelry Line at Macy's". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 5, 2010.

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• I became a set designer for opera.

  Maurice Sendak

  Opera

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• I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

  Maurice Sendak

  Opera, Classical Music, Needed

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• I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.

  Jessica Simpson

  Beautiful, Makeup, Learning More

  "Jessica Simpson talks to Oprah about John Mayerm weight issues" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. March 3, 2010.

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• Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much.

  Donatella Versace

  People, Sometimes, Bigs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.

  Donatella Versace

  Thinking, Want, Way

  Interview with Nicki Minaj, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 8, 2011.

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• I have worked with wool all my life as a designer. There's so much more to it than knitwear - it's an amazingly versatile material and can be used in so many different ways from chic to rustic.

  Donatella Versace

  Way, Wool, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Fashion, Hard Work, People

  Interview with Nicki Minaj, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 8, 2011.

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• Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.

  Vera Wang

  Attitude, Views, Design

  Interview with Evan Lysacek, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2010.

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• I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.

  Vera Wang

  Fashion, Real, Years

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• I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there's nothing like wearing them. You buy them, you study them, and you start to understand how they're crafted.

  Vera Wang

  Thinking, Clothes, Study

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• My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.

  Vera Wang

  Design, Dresses, Gowns

  "My List: Vera Wang in 24 Hours" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 16, 2012.

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• I don't really buy designer stuff. I have a few nice things, but I don't really have the occasion to wear couture too often.

  Emma Watson

  Nice, Stuff, Couture

  Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 16, 2009.

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• I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that's, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he's a very good person and an amazing designer, and I have a lot of respect and time for him.

  Emma Watson

  I Love Him, Good Person, Burberry

  "Watson a sorceress of style". Interview with Katie Ellis, www.perthnow.com.au. May 9, 2011.

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• There's something about the fashion world that I like, which is, I see a lot of the designers really have affection for other designers.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Fashion, World, Affection

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• I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Thinking, People

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