Danielle Brooks Quotes

My brand reflects my personal style. I think my inspiration comes from wanting to make clothes I want to wear and enjoy.

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.

I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.

In designing shoes for myself; I'm not thinking of a specific person or catwalk. I'm just not thinking of clothes at all. I'm always thinking of a naked woman, actually.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

I've always wanted to design clothes.

I get a real kick out of it, seeing people wear my designs.

I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

There's a side to me that likes to make clothes for everyday. But I also think of fashion as an escape. It's like a dream. Even in an economy that isn't strong and where it's important to sell clothes, you have to make things that let people dream a little.

Some of my favorite style icons are Kate Moss and Rihanna, except I'm a little bit younger. I put a little bit more teenage into it.

Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.

My vision is the ability to design clothes for a man who wants to create his own style and doesn't want to dress like he's in uniform, to look like the guy in the ad, or to feel like he has to put it together that way.

I don't think I've got an innate sense of style, but I guess I'm influenced by those I love and admire. You hope that you combine those influences in a way that becomes your own.

With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

I actually bedazzled when I was younger. I totally did that to my jeans.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up.

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

Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.