Designer Quotes - Page 39

• The main thing that 99designs is about is choice. Its a fantastic model that eliminates risk for small business owners and puts designers on equal footing.

  Matt Mickiewicz

  Choices, Risk, Small Business

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• The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

  William Gibson

  Giving, Trying, Architecture

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• The most successful and brilliant work a lighting designer can do is usually the least noticeable.

  Jean Rosenthal

  Successful, Brilliant, Can Do

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• The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.

  Clarence Thomas

  Responsibility, Jeans, Dancing

  Clarence Thomas (1992). “Clarence Thomas -- Confronting the Future: Selections from the Senate Confirmation Hearings and Prior Speeches”, Gateway Books

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• Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving them instruction in sports derives directly from our need to use our children to impress others with our economic surplus. We find "good" rather than real reasons for letting our children go along with the crowd.

  David Elkind

  Sports, Children, Real

  David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I love clothes. I don't know a woman who doesn't. But generally women are intrigued with fashion. Designers are almost making fun of us at times.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Fashion, Fun, Clothes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You need to be curious one way or another as a designer. Your eye has to stay curious. I look at people and think about how they live. I think about bodies.

  Michael Kors

  Eye, Thinking, People

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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• It's funny when I hear people complain - particularly about the most fabulous parts of being a designer, like when you're getting ready to work on a show. I don't even know that I'm tired. I could stay up for six days straight! No drugs, no coffee, no nothing. I'm just so excited.

  Michael Kors

  Coffee, Tired, People

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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• It's funny, I don't even consider myself a rapper, I don't consider myself a designer, or even an actor. I just like creating stuff and trying to make good work, whatever it is. I don't care if it's designing toothbrushes. It's just making cool stuff to leave behind, that's all it is, it's nothing more.

  Andre Benjamin

  Rapper, Creating, Design

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I'm really a nightmare for the fashion designer because I take away all of his authority, and I become the authority, and I turn him into my assistant. You could say I intervene, and I intervene in a very determining way in all the aspects that have to do with the visual construction of the film.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Fashion, Assistants, Way

  "Pedro Almodóvar Talks I’M SO EXCITED, the Role of Sex and Death in His Work, Making the “Gayest Film” He’s Done in 20 Years, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 24, 2013.

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• I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Fashion, Furniture, Architecture

  Interview with Alyssa Shelasky, www.bonappetit.com. January 23, 2013.

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• Buffalo is one of America's great designed cities. The interweaving of great architecture, landscape architecture and important historic sites makes Buffalo a must see destination for preservationists, designers, history buffs, and anyone wishing to see an inspiring example of American design.

  Richard Moe

  Cities, America, Design

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• Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening...It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Art, Thinking

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• So many times I've wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer's having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I'm on the verge of hysteria.

  Helena Christensen

  Hysteria, Fixing, Toes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads.

  Helena Christensen

  Lying, Night, Dresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.

  James Dyson

  Engineers

  "How To Make It" by John Seabrook, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• But one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

  Jonathan Ive

  Tails, Faces, Products

  "Sir Jonathan Ive: Knighted for services to ideas and innovation". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.independent.co.uk. March 13, 2012.

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• Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

  Edith Head

  Years, Ideas, Costumes

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• Many designers are gay men making clothes for women. Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.

  Kim Gordon

  Fashion, Gay, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No matter what, I always have expensive designer shoes. It's all about the shoes for me.

  Bonnie McKee

  Shoes, Matter, Expensive

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• As a designer and someone that likes getting my hands dirty, it's hard. It's a competition. I can't give too much away. One thing I could do was offer encouraging words.

  David Bromstad

  Dirty, Hands, Encouraging Words

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• My role as the chair of the fashion department at Parsons put me face to face with all the big designers, retailers, and editors. Since I was moving in these new circles regularly, I realized I needed to do something about my own personal style. It was really Diane von Furstenberg who gave me the nudge.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Moving, Editors

  "Project Runway’s Top Gunn". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February, 2012.

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• Maybe it's because I'm a designer, but when I am in a state of excitement, everything is so sharp and colorful and amazing, and I can look at blue and I see the yellow in it and the green in it, and the green-blues, the yellow-blues, so.

  Tom Ford

  Blue, Yellow, Looks

  "Sixteen Questions for A Single Man’s Tom Ford". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 20, 2009.

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• Thank god now for social media and just e-commerce. Now designers have a direct pipeline to their customer and access to her like they never had before, like they never could before. Clothes can happen now that never would have had a chance in the traditional chain of command of the way things worked.

  Byron Lars

  Media, Clothes, Thank God

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• Helena Bonham-Carter and I sat down to talk about [Cinderella movie] and she said, 'I really want to do it but only one thing I insist on and that's wings.' She had to have wings and [costume designer] Sandy Powell didn't want wings to begin with but had to be talked around, but that was fun.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Fun, Wings, Want

  "Kenneth Branagh Talks Updating 'Cinderella' and Working With Disney". Interview with Kara Warner, screenrant.com. March 12, 2105.

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