Stella McCartney Quotes

I'm not a typical couturier, although I really respect them.

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

I really see myself continuing to design clothes, fragrances.

I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.

I feel so many times with clothing lines, they don't talk to women to see what they want.

Growing up, I wanted to be a fashion designer, which I'm still in school for. Like, that's what I want to be: a fashion designer.

I was taught fashion very early, from the age of 12 when my father bought and created the group.

When I was in high school in England, I wasn't sure that you could have a career in fashion. In those days, there were very few fashion magazines. I didn't realize there was a school where you could go and learn how to make clothes and design. I thought you just had to be discovered somewhere, like a film.

I still think of myself as a retailer first, but I also know how to make clothes.

You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.

I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.

My womenswear line would translate well into childrenswear.

My success was also owed to career women who maybe had big legs or ample thighs, who felt well-protected by my fluid clothing that hid their flaws.

...I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts.

How much of fashion is fueled by insecurity - for better or worse?

Making art in America is about saving one's soul.

Making clothes involves what I like...color, pattern, shape and movement...I like the everyday process...the people, the pressure, the surprise of seeing the work come alive walking and dancing around on strangers. Like red lipstick on the mouth, my products wake up and brighten and bring the wearer to life...drawing attention to her beauty and specialness...her moods and movements...her dreams and fantasies.

More diets start in dress shops than in doctors' offices.

I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting.

I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn't go out.

I’ve always been very detail orientated, but I have gone from embellishment to nudity - from designing for a woman that likes to be dressed to designing for a woman that likes to be undressed.

I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do naturally well. How I write naturally is probably what's furthest from me, and the most removed from what I understand.

I'm not designing clothes for someone who is doing lines of coke off the table, like I was when I was at Gucci and Saint Laurent

I was used to being disliked as a kid. Not that I didn't deserve it: I was a pretty sad and unappealing creature, and still am, I guess. It's sort of simplistic to think that one tries to make stuff that accounts for one's repulsiveness as a person, but there's some truth to it. So, when I read something unfavorable, I always take it deeply personally. It's as if my efforts have been in vain, and I should just quit.