Graydon Carter Quotes

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.

I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.

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

I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design.

One thing I learned is how much easier it is to write about clothes than it is to make them.

My father was a dress cutter, and my mother was a tailoress, so I was brought up to appreciate a good frock.

I'm into fashion and designing clothes and stuff.

My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'

After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascinated.

I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting.

I was a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled all over London on the Tube looking for buttons. It was great.

I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.

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

When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses.

I design some of my own clothes now.

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

I like fashion. My mum was a dressmaker, believe it or not, so the consequence of that was that all my clothes were homemade, and I looked like a terrible mess until I was old enough to buy my own. But I love good tailoring.

I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond to it immediately.

I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

I wanted to be a fashion designer.

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.

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.