Thom Browne Quotes

I definitely want to design clothes at one point.

I've always wanted to design clothes.

Fashion designing involves a lot of work, and, as opposed to the general perception, it is different from costume designing for films. While a fashion designer can take up a costume designer's role, it is not possible vice versa.

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

I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.

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.

My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

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.

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

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

If you take away print and embroidery, you have to challenge yourself a bit more on the cut.

In Paris, we call the people who make clothing 'couturiers' - they develop new clothing items - but actually, the work of designing is to make something that works in real life.

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

Making your own clothes is great - but don't make everything, or I'll be out of a job!

Fashion design is an important part of the creative industry that means the most to women.

I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.

After months of preparation working with a stylist who explained to me how a fashion house runs and the process of making a dress, I developed a respect for the patience and skill it takes to design these dresses.

I can make 10 jackets of the same colour, same two pockets and same length, that will look like 10 completely different jackets when you put them on. It's about the way they are cut - it makes them look and feel completely different and move differently, and that's a never-ending study. People who wear my clothes will know exactly what I mean.

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

I design some of my own clothes now.

Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it.

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

People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and... It's not like that.