Gwen Stefani Quotes

When I was young, I made all of my own clothes.

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

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

I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.

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

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.

One thing I learned is how much easier it is to write about clothes than it is to make them.

I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it.

I feel very fortunate that I make everything I wear head to toe every day.

If I ever have to return to dressmaking I still have that possibility.

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

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

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

I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.

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.

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.

I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.

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

I design some of my own clothes now.

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

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.

My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model.

I wanted to be a fashion designer.

I make a lot of my own clothes. I don't like wearing the same thing everybody else wears.