Designer Quotes - Page 24

• I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Careers, Half

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• 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

  Fashion, Voice, Giving

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• I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Country, Fashion, Stupid

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• I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Thinking, Climate

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• I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Real, Hype, People

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• I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Thinking, Years

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• I'm an unbelievable designer.

  Serena Williams

  Unbelievable

  "Serena Williams Keen on Fashion Career". www.foxnews.com. November 14, 2004.

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• What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.

  Philip Yancey

  Gratitude, Book, World

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• As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.

  Rachel Zoe

  Tabloids, Week, Worn

  "Being Rachel Zoe". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. September 16, 2007.

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• I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.

  Alber Elbaz

  Thinking, Care, Ifs

  "Alber's Next Move" by J.J. Martin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 14, 2007.

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• The problem with couture is not designers; it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.

  Alber Elbaz

  Problem, Couture, Happens

  Interview with Cathy Horyn, runway.blogs.nytimes.com. June 17, 2007.

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• The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.

  Alber Elbaz

  Fashion, Hard Work, People

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• Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a 'smart' trash bin that aims to revolutionize the recycling process.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Smart, Thinking, Groups

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• I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer.

  Erin Wasson

  Stylist, Models, Expected

  "Erin Wasson: Miss Start-of-Winter Pick-Me-Up". Interview with Eli Rosenberg, www.esquire.com. December 22, 2010.

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• Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

  Eva Zeisel

  Vocabulary, Curves, Design

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• It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and blazers, for anything except glorified sweatsuits, and they tried to apologize for dressing us like overaged Teletubbies by silk-screening daisies on the tops.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Needs, Weight, Suits

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not with a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament)

  Carl Sagan

  Errors, Inability, Trial And Error

  "Cosmos".

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• Barbara was actually Jeff Foxworthy's interior designer when we first met. So, not only was Jeff responsible for my success in my career, he also introduced me to the woman who I'm going to spend the rest of my life with, which, I think, makes us even.

  Ron White

  Thinking, Careers, Firsts

  "Ron White: You Can't Fix Stupid". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. March 25, 2006.

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• I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were knotted into one painful ache. The most frightening thing I'd seen all afternoon had been the prices on the designer clothing.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Car, Afternoon, Necks

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2009). “Guilty Pleasures”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that there must be an intelligent designer--a God. Similarly, the economy looks designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that we need a designer--a government. In fact, emergence and complexity theory explains how the principles of self-organization and emergence cause complex systems to arise from simple systems without a top-down designer.

  Michael Shermer

  Intelligent, Simple, Hard Times

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• Rose!" I looked to my right and saw Adrian cutting across the lawn toward me, oblivious to the slush's effects on his designer shoes. "Did you just call me 'Rose'?" I asked. "And not 'little dhampir'? I don't think that's ever happened." "It happens all the time," he countered, catching up to me.

  Richelle Mead

  Cutting, Thinking, Shoes

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.150, Penguin

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• Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage the country’s most revolting spectacle: the annual feeding frenzy in which shoppers queue all night, then stampede into the shops, elbow, trample and sometimes fight to be the first to carry off some designer junk which will go into landfill before the sales next year. The madder the orgy, the greater the triumph of economic management.

  George Monbiot

  Country, Fighting, Night

  "After this 60-year feeding frenzy, Earth itself has become disposable" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2010.

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• Like every girl, I only need to look up and a little to the right of me to see the hysteria that belongs to me, the one that hangs om a hook like an empty jacket and flutters with disappointment that I cannot wear her all the time. I call her my hysteric, and this personal hysteric of mine is designer made (though I'm not sure who made her), flattering and comfortable, attractive even, if you're around people who like that sort of thing. She is not anyone, my hysteric; she is blank, electricity dancing around a filament, singing to kill.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Girl, Disappointment, Hysteria

  Helen Oyeyemi (2013). “The Opposite House”, p.29, A&C Black

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• Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns in nature. (38)

  Michael Shermer

  Brain, World, May

  Michael Shermer (2007). “Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design”, p.38, Macmillan

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• In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and grade them on the curve. They know the first names of the staff. They are the Pride of the Trojans. Oops – I mean Pride of the Blue Devils. In Universe #2, they throw parties wild enough to attract college students. They worship the stink of Eau de Jocque. They rent beach houses in Cancún during Spring Break and get group-rate abortions before prom.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sports, Fashion, Beach

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.30, Macmillan

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