Masaba Gupta Quotes

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they're proud of.

I'm not opposed to doing a fashion line, but I want to make sure it's the right thing and make sure its something people actually want instead of putting out a bunch of stuff that's already been done.

I'm really proud of this show I did called 'I Just Want My Pants Back.' I was very proud of my work on the show and such a huge fan of everybody involved.

When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors were always looking for cool, fashion-forward tees and sweaters. So that's where I started.

I think the job of an original designer is to inspire.

You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.

I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.

I always have a soft spot in my heart for New York designers and independent designers, people who are doing the fashion equivalent of what I'm trying to do in film.

I try to make my clothing line an entry point for discovering the substance of the rest of my work.

I'd love to have a line of tennis clothes, something unique and different.

When you hold something you created, drew, and conceived, and now here it is in 3D plastic - it is a rush.

I can tell you every element of every single look from each collection - one to 30 - without looking at a picture: my label is all done by me.

I don't think I am avant-garde. I made a lot of creations and created harmony with my fabrics, but I was not like Balenciaga, for example, although he was, of course, a great inspiration.

It's always a fantastic moment for me when someone wears one of our designs.

My collections are a reflection of my personality, and the satisfaction I get from wearing my own designs is indescribable.

It kind of feels good to make something that you're proud of and it's also very real to you.

My brand reflects my personal style. I think my inspiration comes from wanting to make clothes I want to wear and enjoy.

I can come up with 30 T-shirt designs in a day, but it's just about where to slot each of them. That's streetwear to me. It's about knowing where to buy things, not this mass thing you can get anywhere.

I only do what I do. For me, it is a craft. It's got to be my own thing - otherwise, I would never be successful. I could easily go to the archives and pull 1987 or 1991 collection by Calvin Klein. But when you look in there, you realize that it was never about one piece. It was about the collections as bodies of work.

What's important to a fashion designer? It's much more than learning how to make clothes. In fact, that merely makes you a dressmaker. It doesn't make you into a fashion designer.

And I'm the first one to tell people to break the rules. But you can only break the rules once you know what the rules are. The other thing is, fashion is the last design discipline to actually have academic texts and historical analysis.

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first. I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction. In another way, it's a crazy pressure. I try to stay quiet about the whole situation, because fashion itself can be crazy, and everyone wants a part of you.

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

All traditions are stupid unless you came up with it yourself.

The nice thing about the fashion industry is that you're constantly working on something new.