Top 35 Altuzarra Quotes
#1. One of the guiding principles of Altuzarra is that fashion can be transformative, changing not just the way you look, but also the way you feel. By partnering with Target, we hope to bring that same experience to a much broader range of women.
Joseph Altuzarra
#2. There's a side to me that likes to make clothes for everyday. But I also think of fashion as an escape. It's like a dream. Even in an economy that isn't strong and where it's important to sell clothes, you have to make things that let people dream a little.
Joseph Altuzarra
#3. I wanted to create clothes for women in their 40s and 50s and 60s who have careers and are sexy and don't want to look like grandmothers.
Joseph Altuzarra
#4. When you live in Paris, and fashion is such a point of pride for the French, it's always around and you're very much exposed to it from an early age. It was always something I knew about and really liked.
Joseph Altuzarra
#5. My mother has always encouraged me to do what I love. When I started being interested in fashion, she was very supportive, bringing me to see exhibits and buying me books. And when I started my company, she was right there to help me!
Joseph Altuzarra
#6. The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.
Joseph Altuzarra
#7. One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time thinking about what you're designing.
Joseph Altuzarra
#9. What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
Malcolm Forbes
#10. I don't think I'm an artist or that I'm doing anything superintellectual. What's important to me is to get a visceral reaction from people, for them to want that coat because they think it's beautiful.
Joseph Altuzarra
#11. When you look at women today, many take very good care of themselves - they exercise, they eat well, they achieve so much in their jobs. I think they feel good, they feel beautiful, and I believe they want to show their bodies.
Joseph Altuzarra
#12. We're making clothes - we aren't saving the world. I'm not saying that designers aren't artists, but at the end of the day, we make clothes. Hopefully we make beautiful clothes with a message, but in the end it's for people to wear. I think that the hype of fashion has come down a level.
Joseph Altuzarra
#13. I was not a very popular kid in high school, and I had this idea that the way that I dressed would change how liked I was. It was that kind of Pygmalion story. I think, ultimately that's probably why I became interested in fashion, its transformative power, and how it can change your identity.
Joseph Altuzarra
#14. I'm choosy to a fault. You want to hold out for a project that means something. You're the one who's there working fifteen hours a day, and if you don't believe in it, it can feel a whole lot longer.
Lizzy Caplan
#15. It's important not to take all this fashion stuff too seriously, and I kind of love the idea of cheesiness.
Joseph Altuzarra
#16. That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can feel very removed.
Joseph Altuzarra
#17. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
Jack London
#18. When you start a collection, you have to push yourself to limits that may make you uncomfortable.
Joseph Altuzarra
#19. Starting your own business and thinking about how you can grow something and fulfill both expectations and needs of your retailers and still stay exciting for the runway, you sort of become this left brain-right brain person pretty quickly.
Joseph Altuzarra
#20. My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.
Joseph Altuzarra
#21. I think women want to feel beautiful. They want to feel seductive. I also try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once. If you're going to buy a $2,000 jacket, you are going to want to wear it over and over.
Joseph Altuzarra
#22. If you take away print and embroidery, you have to challenge yourself a bit more on the cut.
Joseph Altuzarra
#23. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I believe that clothes should make a woman feel beautiful. But sometimes it's the little things like cut and fit and sex appeal that make a large impact.
Joseph Altuzarra
#24. I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.
Katy Perry
#25. The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents.
John Culberson
#26. I try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once.
Joseph Altuzarra
#28. Men are the inferior sex. Adam was made first, and the first effort is always the simpler and cruder one, non? With the second, one refines.
Loretta Chase
#30. You can build a brand very fast now, especially with bloggers and how fast images can get out - the message just goes out faster and stronger than ever before.
Joseph Altuzarra
#31. In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.
Joseph Altuzarra
#32. I think designers are starting to realize that we're all in the same industry. We're making clothes - we aren't saving the world. I'm not saying that designers aren't artists, but at the end of the day, we make clothes.
Joseph Altuzarra
#33. A lot of my pieces are about easy seductiveness and accessibility in terms of showing skin.
Joseph Altuzarra
#34. Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.
June Diane Raphael
#35. I'm always fetishizing the French woman and French taste and style. My assistant will make fun of me because every time we're picking the direction of a collection, I say the same thing: 'I want it to be really French.'
Joseph Altuzarra
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