Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nigel Barker

Designers simply can't afford to make dresses in 10 sizes for a sample.

Francesca Zambello

Working with Placido Domingo, we have coined the term 'American Ring,' and the designers and I are using American history, mythology, iconography and landscape to set the operas.

When I mention that I'm a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, 'Ah, that's what we like about your script. The videogame feel.'

The production designer is responsible for everything you see on the screen, except the actor.

Walter Crane

Let the designer lean upon the staff of the line - line determinative, line emphatic, line delicate, line expressive, line controlling and uniting.

She was incredibly important. She was one of that first group in the 1930s of designers recognized by name.

The only future for designers in Paris is to sell to a big group or to work for one,

Kym Whitley

I am a different kind of celebrity; I don't have the big, giant house, the fancy cars, and all the designer stuff. I am just a girl from Cleveland.

There is a sense that things have gotten too vulgar, and designers will do their part and pull back.

Candice Olson

There are designers who say, 'Oh! I see wallpaper and blue carpet.' I usually start by knocking down walls. 'You thought you just needed some new drapes? Well, guess what: That wall's gotta go.'

I thought she would say she wanted something like designer jeans, which would have been hard to get.

Warren Spector

For most developers, that kind of situation - a player figuring out how to do something that the designer didn't intend - to most developers, that's a bug. For me, that's a celebration.

I think this is very exciting. We're trying, as a region, to be users of alternative energy and be the designers of new technologies for this. This falls right in line with what we see as the future of our region.

Azzedine Alaia

I'm always telling young designers to take the time to surround themselves with women.

Richard Hastings

Mass merchandising and discount retailing is moving in a big way toward private labels and exclusive designer brands, ... That Wal-Mart is rumored to be contemplating something like this is logical, given the trend in the industry.

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Max Azria

For me, one of the biggest designers is Azzedine Alaia. Everything he is doing is fantastic.

Monika Chiang

I think that young British designers have a kind of fearlessness in they way they approach fashion.

Laura Mvula

Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.

Oleg Cassini

A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.

The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor.

Kate Micucci

I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.

Roz Savage

I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big house and designer clothes.

Douglas Sirk

I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.

Dan Hill

Designers shouldn't aim to control, but to enable.

Alexander McQueen

There is no better designer then nature

Carine Roitfeld

Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.

Lazaro Hernandez

All the young designers now are doing something interesting.

Katrina Kaif

I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting.

Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.

Anna Wintour

It is so important for designers not to run scared, and not to be too worried about what's safe and what's commercial.

Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.

Dries van Noten

People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and... It's not like that.