Prabal Gurung Quotes

I design some of my own clothes now.

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.

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.

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.

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

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

One thing I learned is how much easier it is to write about clothes than it is to make them.

It's a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour.

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

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

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

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

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

I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me.

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 had used the stretch materials for years to shape the inside of garments I made for private clients. Then I just started using them on their own.

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.

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 knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.

From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes.

I like fashion. My mum was a dressmaker, believe it or not, so the consequence of that was that all my clothes were homemade, and I looked like a terrible mess until I was old enough to buy my own. But I love good tailoring.