Juergen Teller Quotes

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.

I never made crazy clothes.

I like being a consumer. I'll do collabs with brands I like, only because I would like something free to wear. But I don't want people to dress like me, which is what you're asking when you create a brand. The fashion industry's just a super-duper headache.

These are clothes my friends and I could wear. This ain't Prada. I don't want to be one of those celebrities that slaps their name on a label and collects royalty checks. Everything on that runway reflects me.

I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.

I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.

I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I don't want to make something I consider a regular person couldn't wear with blue jeans. But I don't want to make something that other people make, either - like a skinny black suit in a shiny material that you can buy anywhere.

Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.

I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.

I really want to get into designing my own business suit. I've designed a couple suits for myself that I've worn in the past, and I have a good idea of what I want and need to use.

I like wearing good clothes. Some of my friends who are into making clothes told me since I was already playing with my own brand of bat sticker, I should make a foray in fashion. The idea has worked very well.

It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.

When I design a garment or a piece of accessory, the first question I ask myself is, 'Would I wear it?'

I make clothing, and I don't care about trendy things.

I want to design clothes that I wish I could have worn when I was a teenager.

My signature line of clothing for Satya Paul will showcase a distinctive aspect of my own personal style.

It might be a selfish choice, but I find it quite difficult to design for individuals and prefer the distance of larger schemes. It's the same reason why, as a designer, I don't do wedding dresses.

I have my Icy brand, so one day when I do have the time I'll create my own fashion line.

I've always wanted to create athleisure; it's my thing.

My brand reflects my personal style. I think my inspiration comes from wanting to make clothes I want to wear and enjoy.

My mother worked in fashion design and she used to show me all of these looks. She tried to get me to wear fitted jeans in high school. This is when big jeans were popping.

I may not be in the office as much as I was at the start of the business but when a new range is launched - and we have two, a spring/summer and an autumn/winter collection - each year, all designs come through me first to make sure I am happy with them.

My job is to make sure there's something about each dress that ignites the bride's imagination.

...I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts.