Couturier's Quotes

#1. I was on a Japanese designers' pedestal - considered a maestro. My design was getting closer to a couturier's work, and I felt like I was missing something.

Yohji Yamamoto

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

Alber Elbaz

#3. A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#4. What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I'm not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.

Andy Couturier

#5. I finally understood that I couldn't avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderful
thing, a beautiful thing.

Andy Couturier

#6. I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings.

Janusz Korczak

#7. A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

Cristobal Balenciaga

#8. I'm not a typical couturier, although I really respect them.

Nicola Formichetti

#9. Somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .

R.S. Thomas

#10. They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.

Andy Couturier

#11. The white man say we're fighting for freedom from totalitarianism, terrorism and tyranny, but nobody know what he mean. I

Marlon James

#12. ...the one small wisdom he has gained from his life is that, when flags start to wave, someone must always refuse to join in.

Steven Heighton

#13. Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.

Andy Couturier

#14. Deep in every heart slumbers a dream, and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess.

Christian Dior

#15. A thing that is really done from the heart will one day or another again touch the hearts of others.

Marie-Alain Couturier

#16. Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?

Andy Couturier

#17. It now seems obvious that the way we're raised has a major impact on what kind of person we turn out to be, but so does who we love.

Terry McMillan

#18. Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

Sloane Stephens

#19. If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it?

Andy Couturier

#20. My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.

Andy Couturier

#21. I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

Shirley Maclaine

#22. The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes
geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.

Madeleine Vionnet

#23. I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.

Andy Couturier

#24. Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.

Andy Couturier

#25. We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.

Charles Caleb Colton

#26. I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.

Andy Couturier

#27. Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!

Alison Croggon

#28. Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.

Andy Couturier

#29. The modern painter ... is an excellent couturier

Joris-Karl Huysmans