Stacey Bendet Quotes

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

Being the son of a handloom weaver, I have knowledge of cotton and some other material.

My dad's paternal grandparents were musically inclined. And I remember as a little kid going to visit them in their senior building, and they were, like, the stars of the building, especially hosting and performing in their senior talent show.

My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing break.

We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.

I do come from a strong family.

My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!

I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

By that time - the early '70s - Vimal was a fairly successful textile brand. So everybody expected me to do textile engineering. I shocked them by saying that I would go to IIT.

Fashion is a real passion in my family. I never even realised it was something glamorous until much later. For me, it was my family's job.

My mom's a collector and my dad is also into jewelry. When I was young, my dad would buy my mom loose stones and she would design them and do the settings and everything. So I kinda grew up with that kind of love for anything sparkly.

My family has always made clothes. Growing up I can remember sewing machines being everywhere.

My granddad founded a manufacturing company in Northern England - a place called Bury - that manufactured denim, and one of the brands they created denim for was Disney.

I have a background in graphic design and have been designing t-shirt graphics for years.

I come from a family of compulsive collectors, and my first memories are really all about collecting. I remember visiting flea markets with my mother or my grandmother - she goes to local ones around Varese, Italy, every Sunday when she's at home.

A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family.

Fabric is the foundation of a collection.

I have seven uncles, and my dad played bass, they had a band together, that was the family band. And of course as the cousins got older, including myself, we joined a family band. All the cousins played. That's my heritage.

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.

My Chinese grandmother was a dressmaker, so I always enjoyed dressing up and looking cool.

I grew up in a very religious family, so that was never going to leave me. I just accepted it over the years. Although I'm not religious myself, it is so much a part of me. It's a part of my history, a part of my tradition and my culture, so I don't want to just throw it away and leave it behind, because it's made me who I am today.

I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her.