Melissa George Quotes

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved to make things. I always made dresses for my Barbie dolls. When I was 13, I designed my Bat Mitzvah dress.

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

A piece of fabric can get me going.

I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.

My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.

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

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

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.

As a kid, I always used to make clothes. My grandmother made everything with me - she taught me how to knit.

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

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'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it.

I need human feelings to fit garments. I couldn't do it just, like, on an object - it's too close to our body. It's like a skin you are making, so you need one's feelings to make a garment.

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

I design some of my own clothes now.

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 remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.

Even before I was discovered in 1966, I used to make my own clothes. I learned how to sew early on, and it's still my passion now. I constantly have ideas in my head about clothes so jumped at the chance to do my own collection and am very hands-on. Everything I design, I wear and I love.

One thing I learned is how much easier it is to write about clothes than it is to make them.

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

Textiles embody all the dimensions of art: color, innovation, talent.