David Lauren Quotes

Ralph Lauren has always had a story. At first, my father told the story just through his designs. Now we're constantly looking for new ways to tell that story through innovation and technology.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

I like how Ralph Lauren creates a mystical world through his clothing.

The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.

If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.

It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good.

Net-a-Porter offers catwalk fashion and trend-driven shopping, but for Mr Porter, while fashion is still important, style is key.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me.

My role as a novelist is to explore ideas and imagination, and hopefully that will inspire people from my world to continue dreaming and to believe in dreams.

Reading changed dreams into life and life into dreams.

When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel.

Sometimes good stories are created while documenting dreams.

You can't explain Chanel. It's a verb.

It's important to excite the imagination of a woman.

I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

Dreams aren't practical, but we can't live without them.

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

Anything is possible, and that’s something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

Our dreams make us large.