Christian Dior Quotes

Both of my grandmothers were needlewomen, so I grew up around dress 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 design some of my own clothes now.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 learned to work with my mother, who had an haute-couture business.

The main pillar of my activity is making clothes, but this can never be the perfect and only vehicle of expression.

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

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

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

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

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

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

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.

I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond to it immediately.

I drape a lot. I cut. I have to touch. For me, it's almost impossible to start without that.

I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.

While designing, sewing and cutting patterns for clients, my mother was always telling me to make sure the upper part of the body was balanced with the lower part, an A-line skirt to minimize hips or shoulder pads if a client was smaller on top. I was training my eye to create balance.

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