Marcel Wanders Quotes

Single-use wearables are tough to sustain from a user perspective.

We should make things that people don't want to throw away.

We never pull down the quality of the product, and I think that pays in the long term. People come up to me and say, 'I'm still wearing a Missoni sweater from 30 years ago, and it still looks great.' So quality, specificity and passion.

I wanted to make the lightest shoe possible, but still be able to perform at the same time.

The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.

If you don't have an emotionally engaging design for a device, no one will care about it.

The difference between style and fashion is quality.

The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.

I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.

I don't subscribe to the view some people have in the industry that you should purposefully design products that do not last that long. I don't think it is good for anyone.

I try to make pieces that are durable. One of the reasons that I work in steel is durability.

There's a reason good fabrics have a cost. They're done with good quality to last.

In tech, people want an object for what's inside it, what it does. You need to make a defensive design that people won't walk away from. A chair is aggressive - you want a customer to choose it from many others.

A lasting architecture has to have roots.

Beautiful fabrics last; synthetics don't. Certain fabrics, such as linen or cotton, develop their own character over time.

Integrity is the distinctive Santoni trait. Their attention for the longevity of good product matches the widely-felt need for fashion that's less superficial and volatile.

We are buying stuff we know we don't need, and that is a problem we should face in design. It starts with creating an object that transports through time a valuable idea: that it can live forever.

Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about building what is appropriate and about attaining beauty through such an approach. I describe this premise as 'inherent buildability', and I believe it is central to what I do.

I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

I know "accessibility" is a term that's kind of thrown around wantonly today, especially with talking about visual media. But I think that the strength of comics [is how they] really allow you to transcend those last barriers between a reader absorbing the information of an experience, and a reader being able to project themselves into the [experience of the] people about whom they're reading.

People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

Endurance is often the best indicator of validity & value

What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?

Fonts. I get emotional over fonts.