Franco Moschino Quotes

I'm not an artist. I'm a fashion designer of clothes.

In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.

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

I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

Truthfully, the hardest part about fashion is not the vision or one great idea, but the execution of each aspect.

Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

Fashion is always seen as somewhat frivolous and self-indulgent. And I think people on the inside maybe don't see or understand how exciting and diverse a business it is.

I'm more of a fashion designer than I am a rapper.

Fashion is a great love of mine. I'm used to looking really hard for clothes that I like and I am really fortunate to have an amazing team of talented artists who work day and night with me to create our visions and make them come alive.

In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design.

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

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

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

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.

Fashion is very judgmental. It's something where you have to be careful. I have a long way to go before I can be a designer. I'd love to one day, but we'll see.

Fashion moves so quickly that, unless you have a strong point of view, you can lose integrity.

There are a bunch of different ways to look at the fashion industry. Is it shallow to work in fashion? Yes, it can be. But does fashion transform a woman who might feel like nothing and unimportant to glamorous and gorgeous? Yes, it does. Does it employ a huge sector of America? Yes, it does.

I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.

I didn't long to be a designer. I always liked fashion, but it was always a bit sleeping in me.

I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.

Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.

I love designing dresses and tops.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.