Cristobal Balenciaga Quotes

I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.

I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me.

I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

I'm a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept.

Every time I design clothes, I'm making a movie.

A good design is not a democratic consensus.

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.

Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though - you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief.

It's a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour.

A product can live on one great idea. An interior needs 1,000 great ideas to really live, which makes interior design a whole orchestration of this art of juxtaposition, placement, and combination.

I very much like Christopher Kane. He actually did a work placement with me, and you could spot his talent straight away.

Pyrex Vision's first season was, for me, an expression of myself as an artist first, designer second.

I love the personality of Schiaparelli so much.

I've never liked to conceptualize too much about fashion, like it was art or science, which it is not. But it's nice when there's a clear idea behind a collection.

There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.

Fashion designing involves a lot of work, and, as opposed to the general perception, it is different from costume designing for films. While a fashion designer can take up a costume designer's role, it is not possible vice versa.

I would hope that Kanye [West] would be remembered for being smart and sticking to what he believes.

With McQueen you have so much at your fingertips. That is what's so incredible about this place. Lee built an amazing house, an English house - and that is very important - where creativity rules, where you can do whatever you want to do for the shows because no one's saying: where's your basic dress, where's your three button jacket?

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

When I create a collection, I approach it with a cinematic point of view-I am not designing clothes, I'm creating a world.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.