Suzy Menkes Quotes

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.

When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses.

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.

My father was a dress cutter, and my mother was a tailoress, so I was brought up to appreciate a good frock.

'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!'

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

I design some of my own clothes now.

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder.

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

I'm into fashion and designing clothes and stuff.

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

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

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.

I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for 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 was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting.