Daria Werbowy Quotes

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

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

A lot of fashion might seem boring, but it is actually quite fun: the inside, the outside, the silhouette... All the different finishes. That's a skill.

I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it.

I'm lucky that I'm inside the fashion industry and see clothes from a different perspective than the traditional consumer. Being able to curate, edit, and style product to make my own look is a privilege, but something I think men are becoming more aware of how to do.

I had used the stretch materials for years to shape the inside of garments I made for private clients. Then I just started using them on their own.

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.

Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.

I really want to get into designing my own business suit. I've designed a couple suits for myself that I've worn in the past, and I have a good idea of what I want and need to use.

I think a good designer can exist everywhere and anywhere and all the time. It's all about being good, and I think that our job basically is to make women and men look good.

Australia has produced amazing costume designers that are unheralded.

I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.

I did learn a lot from 'Project Runway,' things I could incorporate into my own life.

I've learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality.

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

I drape a lot. I cut. I have to touch. For me, it's almost impossible to start without that.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Even before I was discovered in 1966, I used to make my own clothes. I learned how to sew early on, and it's still my passion now. I constantly have ideas in my head about clothes so jumped at the chance to do my own collection and am very hands-on. Everything I design, I wear and I love.

I'm not an artist. I'm a fashion designer of clothes.

I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.

Yes, but more than being a designer, I'm more of a stylist, because I don't sew and I don't sketch, but I'm good at putting things together, choosing things that are chic and glossing over the aesthetics of things.

I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.

I love designing dresses and tops.

My father writes through clothes.

My fascination has been the space between cloth and the body, and using a two-dimensional element to clothe a three-dimensional form.