Naeem Khan Quotes

Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

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

I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.

As an industrial designer, you design the thing by yourself, and then it goes away from you, whereas fashion is in constant relation to the body and to psychology. It makes it more complicated, and it makes it more challenging.

It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric - without a practical or visual reality.

I learned to work with my mother, who had an haute-couture business.

Sometimes I've been interested in studying fashion design. Just for fun.

I guess I just developed more of an interest to actually be a part of the design, picking out the fabric and just being more involved. I never really considered myself a fashion person, but then I just realized that fashion is just another way of self expression and that's pretty much what I'm most passionate about.

One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's very glamorous work.

If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.

Driven to design by what she refers to as the lack of glamour in the industry, Bar Or creates for the modern woman who is a fashion risk-taker, one who is confident and, perhaps, has a larger than life personality.

I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I'm going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.

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.

I've always loved fashion design. I love drawing and creating looks and styling.

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

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

The big difference between couture and ready-to-wear is not design. It is the fabrics, the handwork, and the fittings. The act of creation is the same.

A dress is an emotional thing to make. You've got to fall in love with it and not just with the dress - the whole process of designing it has to be a good experience.

I happen to have an expensive clothing habit, so, for me, designing clothes is a way to kill two birds with one stone.

Actually, I did get to help very much in the design of the Cody doll. I made sure the clothes were cool and everything.

At about age 25 I had a bit of a quarter-life crisis and expected to be at a certain place by then, which was unrealistic to some extent. I used to have a lot of passion for interior design but I somehow lost it along the way, and so fashion was what I thought to be a new beginning, but in the end it just solidified the love I have for design.