Jil Sander Quotes

I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.

To me, fashion is ceaselessly fascinating because it is an expression of self.

Style is character.

Style is the image of character.

Design can change how you look at yourself.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

Fashion should be a kind of bouillon de culture.

Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that's what excites me.

Style is the perfection of a point of view.

Everyone wants to be a designer.

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.

Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.

To me, graphic T-shirts are the most important and most expressive format for a designer or a person. Your taste in graphic tees says a lot about your point of view.

I'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.

I love fashion and appreciate it so much, and I feel like it's moving artwork going down a runway.

The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.

The style depends on the subject.

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

The image is an image.

We like to believe our fashion is growing.

For me, fashion is not about reality.

The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.