Top 100 Quotes About A Designer
#1. Go get a job. Whether it's working as a designer or working in a restaurant and then doing your own thing in your own time, it's a reality of life. In the end it's going to be helpful to you and so many others.
Anna Wintour
#2. I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna!
Anne Robinson
#3. I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.
Stewart Butterfield
#4. I guess I accidentally became a part of history. Honestly, when you're young and you're a designer, you have a goal, but that is not the kind of goal that you even think it's possible to achieve.
Jason Wu
#5. I never thought of myself as being limited to fashion. I'm a designer, and if you have a vision, you can apply that to anything.
Jason Wu
#6. Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.
Philippe Starck
#7. I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit ... weird.
Lara Stone
#8. As a designer, you always take facets of different people and you mix them together with your own thoughts and information and creativity and passion.
Nicki Minaj
#9. I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, 'This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.' But then, that's the goal: world domination through style.
Tom Ford
#10. At the beginning of the career is important for a designer to present his most representative pieces.
Domenico Dolce
#11. What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.
Octavia Spencer
#12. I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.
Joe Wright
#13. Every time you make the user make a decision they don't care about, you have failed as a designer.
Aza Raskin
#14. A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.
John Maeda
#15. 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
#16. Time is my biggest luxury. Finding time to do things outside of fashion, which I think for a designer is incredibly important.
Phoebe Philo
#17. This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.
Isaac Mizrahi
#18. I think of a designer as a processor of information - like a scriptwriter or a novelist.
Freeman Thomas
#19. The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.
Massimo Vignelli
#20. The media is looking every season for a designer to tell a story. I have a long story I have to tell, continuing fluently year after year.
Helmut Lang
#21. These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself a designer.
Glenn Martinez
#22. I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients. I could never do that. I'm my client. That's the difference between an artist and a designer; it's a client relationship.
Barbara Kruger
#23. I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.
Dieter Rams
#24. If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.
Deborra-Lee Furness
#25. When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.
Annabelle Selldorf
#26. As an actress, you're part of what the director is creating, and as a model, you're representing a designer's vision.
Lou Doillon
#28. He was a really energetic person and desperately keen for his son to succeed. He was simply a caring father who tried to make sure that Jony had all the best opportunities to get on as a designer.
Leander Kahney
#29. 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
#30. Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
Salma Hayek
#31. When a designer gives you a bill, what do you see it as? An expense, right? When a designer gives me a bill, I see it as an investment. For me, it is something that appreciates and helps your business grow.
Neil Patel
#32. I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.
Gianni Versace
#33. 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
#34. A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
Edith Head
#35. A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.
Leo Frankowski
#37. 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
#38. I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model.
Isabella Rossellini
#39. 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
#40. Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.
Douglas Wilson
#41. The universe began in an instant, is expanding, and exhibits design, order, and complexity. Every effect must have a Cause, and design must have a Designer.
Ray Comfort
#42. I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.
Christian Louboutin
#43. Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
Ozwald Boateng
#44. I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.
Tommy Hilfiger
#45. 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
#46. The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a product and service is a designer's most valuable asset.
Primo Angeli
#47. I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.
Francisco Costa
#48. I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.
Frida Giannini
#50. The computer has played a role in destroying creativity with the Photoshop. Everybody thinks they're a designer.
George Lois
#52. I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
Alexander McQueen
#53. I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.
Rachel Roy
#54. I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.
Ridley Scott
#55. I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.
Raf Simons
#56. When I walk for a designer, I walk the ramp as Vijender Singh, the boxer. I believe that by doing so, boxing will at least, in some way, get promoted in our entertainment industry. Plus, if cricketers can, why can't I?
Vijender Singh
#57. I'm not a scientist. What I find interesting about my work is how, as a designer, I sit between science and the consumer and can see both a need and a solution.
Suzanne Lee
#58. 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
#59. I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.
Alber Elbaz
#60. I went to school for a short period of time to study fashion. I wanted to become a stylist or a designer. I made clothes when I was a teenager that I used to sell online. My label name was "Baby Jesus" - so incredibly stupid, but whatever, I was 17!
Bethany Cosentino
#61. I like to stand out in the crowd. So anytime a designer offers up items that are a little attention grabbing or pushing the boundaries ever so slightly, I'm always game for that.
Brad Goreski
#62. The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer
and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.
William James
#63. As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.
Jason Wu
#64. I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting.
Katrina Kaif
#65. I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy.
Nicky Hilton
#66. I didn't long to be a designer. I always liked fashion, but it was always a bit sleeping in me.
Carolina Herrera
#67. 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
#68. A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.
Richard Dawkins
#69. It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.
Carmen Kass
#70. When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.
Jason Wu
#72. You have to think like a designer. You have to establish the trend four seasons before it becomes popular.
Kanye West
#74. 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
#75. I'm a designer, producer and I am hands-on for every project I undertake. The creative side of what I do is really something I think people overlooked for a while.
Dita Von Teese
#76. I wanted to be a designer since I was a kid, and I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed. I always thought that they were the most interesting people.
Anna Sui
#77. Part of maturing as a designer is discovering what you're good at.
Michael Bierut
#78. I don't think many people would think I'm a designer. I behave in a different way. I'd get knocked down and cut to pieces if I went home and flounced about; this industry is known for the flounciness, but I've got my feet on the ground.
Alice Temperley
#79. The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize and glean insights that enable him or her to make the invisible visible
Hillman Curtis
#80. The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.
Rick Heinrichs
#81. They pictured themselves dashing around Manhattan, latte in one hand, cell phone in the other, adorably breaking a designer heel while hailing a cab, and falling into the arms of a charming, disarming soul mate with winningly floppy hair.
Gillian Flynn
#82. I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.
Dhani Harrison
#83. As a designer looking to the future, you don't want to get lost in the archives.
Chris Benz
#85. As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.
Alexander McQueen
#86. As a designer it's not my job to make people like me - I just want them to like my clothes.
Keith Michael
#87. Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.
Richard Dawkins
#89. My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists
Marc Newson
#90. I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.
Judi Dench
#91. machine learning is the general field that studies how complex mechanisms can be created without a designer.
Leslie Valiant
#92. Me, as a designer who is not exactly skinny, all I want is comfortable clothes.
Alber Elbaz
#93. The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.
Jil Sander
#94. I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.
Sally Phillips
#95. 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. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.
Vera Wang
#96. What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless".
Paula Scher
#98. Natural selection is not a master engineer, but a tinkerer. It doesn't produce the absolute perfection achievable by a designer starting from scratch, but merely the best it can do with what is has to work with.
Jerry A. Coyne
#99. When I do my own wardrobe, I try to wear a designer from each of the countries I'm visiting: Tom Ford for New York, Hugo Boss for Germany, Burberry for England.
Douglas Booth
#100. I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make her look her best. Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on.
Oscar De La Renta
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