Jenny Packham Quotes

I design some of my own clothes now.

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

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

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

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

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

'Mad Fashion' follows the everyday workings of me and my workshop, where we make fashion, costumes, props, and couture!

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

A piece of fabric can get me going.

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.

When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to cut patterns and sew.

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.

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

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

My mom used to make my costumes when I was little; she sews a lot. One year, I was a bride and I had a big wedding dress and a bouquet. Another year I was a medieval princess with a long teal dress and a veil. It was a little extravagant, but it was cute!

I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes.

Yes, I do sew. I started when I was around 8 or 9 and have been doing it off and on since then.