Jack McCollough Quotes

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

The problem is that resuscitating old labels doesn't work anymore. I think it is very important to give hope to a new generation of designers, so that one day they really can put their own names out there.

In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.

Soul is a colourless thing. I don't think you have to be a black person to be automatically soulful. I respect Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake; they do what they do. For me, my philosophy has always been 'contribution before competition.'

There really are so many lines of work that you can join that don't have to only be design. And that was one that particularly interested me a lot, because the editors could appreciate all the trends, all the designs and all the work of the designers.

I work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show sometimes, but then it becomes more conceptual. But when I don't sketch, it becomes more pragmatic.

I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16.

Everyday people are not very good designers.

There are so many designers that I love, and I'm so lucky that I get to work with so many of them and sometimes spend time with them.

During a fashion show, I want the clothes to speak. The effort I put into my work must be respected.

As a designer, I always want to put out to a larger public. I truly believe that all bodies are beautiful, and that's what makes our world exciting.

I always have a soft spot in my heart for New York designers and independent designers, people who are doing the fashion equivalent of what I'm trying to do in film.

Fashion world is a unique one, and I love being part of it! I find it fascinating.

My brother Alex is so creative. He's good at making stuff and runs his own clothing brand.

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.

Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

I like to design my clothes; I design my jewelry, yeah. It's fun.

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.

There are a lot of young artists that are dope.

I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then.

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .