Marcel Wanders Quotes

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

I think a good designer can exist everywhere and anywhere and all the time. It's all about being good, and I think that our job basically is to make women and men look good.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

Function alone does not make clothing appealing.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

I love art and fashion.

There is no art without Eros.

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.

I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

Beauty, by way of fashion, has to do with confidence, with flattering silhouettes, with patterns, with proper fit for body type, and with an abundance of self-love!

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.