David Lauren Quotes

It's a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour.

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.

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.

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

My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this little needle going up and down joining fabric together that I'd use it when my mother went out to feed the chickens.

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

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

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

I am not really interested in clothing as a conceptual art form.

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

A lot of fashion might seem boring, but it is actually quite fun: the inside, the outside, the silhouette... All the different finishes. That's a skill.

Both of my grandmothers were needlewomen, so I grew up around dress design.

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

My mother did like to make clothes, and in I think the worst picture I've ever seen of myself - I must have been eight or nine - she'd dressed me in a matching t-shirt and Bermuda shorts ensemble which I think looked like somebody had thrown up all over it. I was so glad when that sewing machine stopped working, I have to say.

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'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

The Royal Family doesn't go out shopping for their uniforms: they've got some guy sewing on all the ornaments in-house. You could say I've got my own in-house team as well.

I need human feelings to fit garments. I couldn't do it just, like, on an object - it's too close to our body. It's like a skin you are making, so you need one's feelings to make a garment.

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

From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

I design some of my own clothes now.

Australia has produced amazing costume designers that are unheralded.

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'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

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