Tan France Quotes

My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.

Most pieces take between two and three weeks and involve more than 40 people from the fabric cutters to the embroiders to the sewers. It's an elaborate undertaking.

My family has always made clothes. Growing up I can remember sewing machines being everywhere.

In fashion, the time is so short, and even with pre-collection, there are not only dresses, shoes, bags, and furs but now raincoats and T-shirts. It's just an endless amount of work that we have to produce in no time.

After months of preparation working with a stylist who explained to me how a fashion house runs and the process of making a dress, I developed a respect for the patience and skill it takes to design these dresses.

You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it.

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.

I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.

My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him - just talking, because he was a car buff.

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.

My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.

As an industrial designer, you design the thing by yourself, and then it goes away from you, whereas fashion is in constant relation to the body and to psychology. It makes it more complicated, and it makes it more challenging.

I've learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don't think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety of understanding yarns, what makes a fabric what it is - I've learned technical skills and more about the craft.

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

'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store.

I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be sold well and has to be of high quality.

I would love to have my own shoe line. That I would absolutely love.

I do love a bit of fashion. I grew up around a lot of it as my mum and dad had clothing stores so my mum was always designing a lot, and I definitely had that as an influence.

If you're entering into fashion in an original way, you have to know your craft, and you have to know your history. You have to be obsessively dedicated. You have to be relentless about making it happen. It doesn't take a bank. It takes passion, love, timing, and luck.

When I started, I didn't have any idea of production or how things worked in footwear.

For myself, I went into an industry I wasn't educated on, and I thought, 'Hey, yeah, let's do this. Awesome.' And I've really had to educate myself in the fashion world: undergarments, fabrics, and learning their language, but it's been really great.

Being in this whole fashion industry, seeing it firsthand, I never realized just how much work goes into everything.

My granddad founded a manufacturing company in Northern England - a place called Bury - that manufactured denim, and one of the brands they created denim for was Disney.

My mom and grandma have made clothes their whole life. My grandma had her own factory.