Nina Garcia Quotes

While at Parsons, I interned at Marc Jacobs, which was great. When I graduated, I went to work at J. Crew; that was also really great.

Knowledge-based apprenticeships kickstart careers. Just look at British fashion designer Karen Millen, for example, who learned her craft through an apprenticeship scheme.

Designer Marc Jacobs ended his sixteen-year tenure at Louis Vuitton with a spring 2014 collection that celebrated fashion in its purest and least complicated form - as majestic, superficial beauty.

Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.

Yves Saint Laurent was my first fashion show. I wore his tuxedo. And Helmut Newton was my first photographer, in 1973. I was really very lucky. I had an amazing career.

I came to TVF for 3-4 months after college. That was my internship time.

I want to be like a Wendy Murdoch or a Georgina Chapman.

I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.

Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.

I like to refer to my years with the Angels as the foundation of my career.

I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.

John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.

The hands of Yves Saint Laurent are something really important - two real characters on their own.

My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.

I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur Dior. Dior himself was a gallerist before becoming the revolutionary fashion designer we all know.

For me, one of the biggest designers is Azzedine Alaia. Everything he is doing is fantastic.

I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job.

I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked.

When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.

It's very important that when you have a designer like Marc Jacobs, who is a genius, you give him complete freedom.

I'm more concerned about Marc Jacobs than the U.S. president.

Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.

I'm definitely planning ahead for a brand that spans the universe - a Zac Posen universe.

In college, I interned for Diane Sawyer my sophomore summer.