Chris March Quotes

It's often said that costume designers are a faceless group of people. But we can contribute to fashion in a way that might be new and different.

I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses.

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!

Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized.

I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked.

I'm interested in every aspect of fashion. I think it's in my bones. When I was younger I used to be my mum's stylist, picking things out for her to wear. I'd say to her, 'If anybody asks you who styled you tonight say, 'Georgia.'

All my way through college, I worked my way as a window dresser for Lord & Taylor, so I always liked fashion. I always loved fashion and I love that we can do it and not take it seriously.

I'm not a big fan of shopping. I certainly am a fan of clothes, and especially people that put time into the construction of them.

Accessories design is one of the most creative categories. It's like cooking, like decorating, because it involves the person. They have to choose, and they have to figure out how to wear it and to mix it based on their style.

I loved fashion, I really did, but I was not obsessed with it. I wanted to be behind the scenes, like in that movie 'Broadcast News.' Holly Hunter - her I wanted to be.

I create a look, and I create a style.

I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.

I would love to one day have my own line of clothes.

If one lazily thinks of what a fashion designer might do if he's going to conquer cinema next, it would be taking the opportunity to display his fashion sensibilities.

I would've been a really good costume designer because, basically, my clothes were like costumes, and I wanted to be a dancer, so there's all of that tulle and color.

I want to design clothes that I wish I could have worn when I was a teenager.

I am not really interested in clothing as a conceptual art form.

I can't just go in and throw clothes at a picture. I still have to have some kind of an idea of a character, of who she is, where she's from. It's almost like playing a child's game. You have your dolls, and you create characters for them. Fashion indulged that in me.

I don't have the time to design my own costumes, but I do give suggestions and style tips.

I have a very active team who works with me when it comes to my styling and putting together a look.

I play in men's and women's wear, and I kinda mix and things like that.

For me, actresses are constantly chameleons, and so they are taking a backseat to their own personality. I don't feel like we're trying to show off their personality as much as let them be a blank slate. It's precisely the reason why I dress more musicians than I do actresses.

I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though - you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief.

I'm heavy into fashion. I always keep my ears and eyes open to the streets, to who's doing what, because I always designed.