Olivier Theyskens Quotes

I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

It actually is as fun to make men's costumes, especially if they are as good-looking as Chris Hemsworth.

I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.

I'm a costume designer. My career is not in fashion, a field I'm basically unfamiliar with.

I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'

Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses.

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 know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!

I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model.

I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas to the actor, then do fittings for shape and technical things such as movement in the costume. Once the costume in this form is on the actor, you have a sense of their connection with it. I then take it to the next level with the final fit.

I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

I don't have the time to design my own costumes, but I do give suggestions and style tips.

I've always known that I wanted to do something in entertainment and fashion.

But I've always loved the whole costuming part of acting.

I always wanted to be a fashion designer and I learned costume illustration in high school. That was an incredible high school. It was more like a college. I'm moving more in that direction, just kind of merchandising my name.

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

I think Jenny Beavan is a masterful costume designer and very deserving of the Oscar for 'Mad Max: Fury Road.'

I loved fashion, I really did, but I was not obsessed with it. I wanted to be behind the scenes, like in that movie 'Broadcast News.' Holly Hunter - her I wanted to be.

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

It's funny: I don't get to play characters where I wear what I want to wear. With 'Mad Men,' if Janie Bryant doesn't laugh at me, then that outfit doesn't make it to air.

My parents were like, 'Oh my God,' when I said I was going into fashion - they pictured me with a rolling rack on Seventh Avenue.

I did an art foundation course, and I knew I wanted to do something in a creative field. And fashion just seemed like the most fun.