Naeem Khan Quotes

My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.

I do love a bit of fashion. I grew up around a lot of it as my mum and dad had clothing stores so my mum was always designing a lot, and I definitely had that as an influence.

Tradition in fashion is held with such a high regard.

I decided to work on things that obsess women because women can't resist things like lace, sequins, animal prints and python.

I think New York is the center of fashion, even though L.A. has a lot of heritage and the glamour of Hollywood.

I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.

Watching my dad, Ralph Lauren, design clothes when I was young, I was always inspired.

I'm lucky that it's about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I don't know what I would have done.

I didn't grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear.

I've been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother's a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going to do a line and dive into the fashion world.

I was never really interested in fashion before I started to work with Dior. I didn't see fashion as an art form.

I grew up with very elegant parents; their black and white photographs and style are still a huge source of inspiration in designing my collections.

The goal for my girls and me has always been about beauty and fashion. Before we ever had the shows, my mom had a store for 40 years in La Jolla, and I grew up working there.

I always loved fashion. My mother was a fashion designer, so it was always in my blood.

My mom and grandma have made clothes their whole life. My grandma had her own factory.

I was taught fashion very early, from the age of 12 when my father bought and created the group.

All the embroidery is made in my father's workshop in India... and all the cutting and sewing is done in my studio.

Well, that's why I really love Diego Della Valle, because he's crazy. Instead of going out to find a top business school graduate, for whom it would have taken five years to see the difference between a ballet shoe and a book, he asked me to revive the label. It's a bit like Balenciaga. Brands like Vivier are pillars - they are monuments of fashion; they are names we don't forget. But the general public doesn't necessarily know that and therefore we had to get the name re-known.

The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.

Modeling is a great job to be in. You travel the world. You stay in one of the most fantastic places in the world. It is not always as glamorous as it looks, it's a lot of hard work, too, but it's a lot of fun at the same time.

[Nathalie Rykiel] knows by heart the genetic codes of the brand, and she also has a very contemporary and creative opinions about it.

If you look into the history of fashion, you'll discover that Gernreich was the leading name for years and the leading fashion designer both here in the United States and internationally.

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

Once a Supermodel, always a Supermodel.

Fashion shows are glamorous for 20 minutes.