Twiggy Quotes

I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about.

I design some of my own clothes now.

In grade school, my mother, who was a professional tailor, would make all my clothes. I became obsessed with designing them myself.

I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.

I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond to it immediately.

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design.

With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.

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

I like to take my time when I'm designing and constructing outfits.

I've always wanted to design clothes.

After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascinated.

I like fashion. My mum was a dressmaker, believe it or not, so the consequence of that was that all my clothes were homemade, and I looked like a terrible mess until I was old enough to buy my own. But I love good tailoring.

I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.

I love designing dresses and tops.

In Paris, we call the people who make clothing 'couturiers' - they develop new clothing items - but actually, the work of designing is to make something that works in real life.

'Mad Fashion' follows the everyday workings of me and my workshop, where we make fashion, costumes, props, and couture!

My Chinese grandmother was a dressmaker, so I always enjoyed dressing up and looking cool.

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'

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

After months of preparation working with a stylist who explained to me how a fashion house runs and the process of making a dress, I developed a respect for the patience and skill it takes to design these dresses.