Maripol Quotes

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

I like to take my time when I'm designing and constructing outfits.

I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.

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

I design some of my own clothes now.

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 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.

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.

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

I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it.

I feel very fortunate that I make everything I wear head to toe every day.

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

In grade school, my mother, who was a professional tailor, would make all my clothes. I became obsessed with designing them myself.

When I was young, I made all of my own clothes.

I like to design my clothes; I design my jewelry, yeah. It's fun.

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made a sweater because I wanted to have one that wasn't like anyone else's.

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.

Cuts of clothes and shapes of clothes are really important.

I'm not a big fan of shopping. I certainly am a fan of clothes, and especially people that put time into the construction of them.

Fashion is a good job for a young girl. I like clothes - I like to play with clothes. I like DIY; I like to make outfit.

I had always been interested in fashion.

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.

I would love to one day have my own line of clothes.