Nicole Richie Quotes

I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

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.

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

When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an inch and down an inch, changing it from one shade of red to another shade of red. So it's the same as any creative process. The result is what we see, but the process is really labor intensive and work.

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.

'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store.

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.

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

I've always wanted to design clothes.

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

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 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 was a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled all over London on the Tube looking for buttons. It was great.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

I think pattern makers are some of the most underrated, undervalued people in fashion. They're the people who are sometimes the geniuses in designing clothing.

I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.

I definitely want to design clothes at one point.

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.

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.

For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff.

I realised I've got quite a talent for coming up with ideas for design. I've got so many ideas about fashion.