ASAP Rocky Quotes

In fashion, the time is so short, and even with pre-collection, there are not only dresses, shoes, bags, and furs but now raincoats and T-shirts. It's just an endless amount of work that we have to produce in no time.

I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.

I'm not a typical couturier, although I really respect them.

Matthew Williamson has always been a favourite of mine, and I am definitely also rooting for up-and-coming designers like Michael van der Ham.

In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

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.

I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.

Fashion is very judgmental. It's something where you have to be careful. I have a long way to go before I can be a designer. I'd love to one day, but we'll see.

It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one.

I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.

I enjoy seeing how my friends - Proenza Schouler, Zac Posen, Rodarte - use clothes to create their vision and art.

There's a lot of work that goes into it - if you think about how many collections a year that Karl Lagerfeld has to do, with Chanel and all the other things he does - you can't do that unless you are working 18 hours a day. It's really a lot of hard, hard work.

When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors were always looking for cool, fashion-forward tees and sweaters. So that's where I started.

Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads.

Designers were saying to me that they didn't have a place to sell their special pieces from the runway.

Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasn't always translated to the streets.

I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

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.

As soon as the show is over, I always think, 'How will the woman I design for go forward?' It's so important to start quickly because I can't let her get away.

For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.

I'd love to work with Gaultier, and I'm obsessed with Vivienne Westwood.

I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.

Throughout the years I've been working as a model, I've gathered lots of information on the process of creating fashion without even trying.