Joseph Altuzarra Quotes

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art.

I have always been clear about what I wanted to do and who I wanted to dress. However, you need that business sense to help direct your talent. Because at the end of the day, you are selling clothes, and that is the reality which we live in.

Fashion designers only occasionally tread outside the realm of clothes as pure commodity. When they do, the results are often a muddled, self-conscious message.

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

I really think that creating clothes and fashion has to be a statement about how we live and where we live and what's happening in the world.

I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.

Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.

I interned with Marc Jacobs in college, then worked at J. Crew. I learned a lot about how to fit clothes and what kinds of things sell and why.

It will be great to have a fashion career during and after my DJ career.

What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.

There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice.

I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.

I'm not interested in making clothes that are not accessible.

I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism; it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.

We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.

Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art.

I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work.

I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.

I make clothes; women make fashion.

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.

Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, against consumers, against the dynamism of Western commercial society. The debate is not about art but about culture and economics.

I love being a fashion designer.

Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it; it's a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there's the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits.

There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my deeper work.