Famous quotes by Designers

"I like perfume and flowers"

"Design is not for philosophy it's for life"

"Fashion is made to become unfashionable"

"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale"

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone"

"Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death"

"Great loves too must be endured"

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening"

"It is always better to be slightly underdressed"

"I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men"

"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame"

"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas"

"From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh"

"To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used"

"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?"

"The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?"

"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do"

"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se"

"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose"

"We think there's a huge opportunity in smaller vehicles. Smaller vehicles done in an American way"

"We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives"

"I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me"

"Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes"

"It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it"

"I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it"

"I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it"

"There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people"

"They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me"

"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation"

"The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun"