Gianni Versace Quotes

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

I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascinated.

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

I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.

I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.

Both of my grandmothers were needlewomen, so I grew up around dress design.

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

My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'

I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture.

I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting.

I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.

I design some of my own clothes now.

I'm not a typical couturier, although I really respect them.

I wanted to be a fashion designer.

I never studied fashion design.

In grade school, my mother, who was a professional tailor, would make all my clothes. I became obsessed with designing them myself.

When I was a child I loved my dolls and I was practically born with a needle in my hand. I really had an aptitude for sewing - my mother taught me. I even learned to embroider when I was very young and I made the most fantastic dresses for my dolls. So I thought I could be a designer.

I was taught fashion very early, from the age of 12 when my father bought and created the group.

'Mad Fashion' follows the everyday workings of me and my workshop, where we make fashion, costumes, props, and couture!

After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

My mother did like to make clothes, and in I think the worst picture I've ever seen of myself - I must have been eight or nine - she'd dressed me in a matching t-shirt and Bermuda shorts ensemble which I think looked like somebody had thrown up all over it. I was so glad when that sewing machine stopped working, I have to say.

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

I was a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled all over London on the Tube looking for buttons. It was great.

When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses.

I'm big into fashion, so after swimming, when I hang up the Speedo, I definitely want to get into fashion and start designing my own clothing line.