Lady Colin Campbell Quotes

Both of my grandmothers were needlewomen, so I grew up around dress design.

My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'

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

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

I design some of my own clothes now.

I learned to work with my mother, who had an haute-couture business.

My Chinese grandmother was a dressmaker, so I always enjoyed dressing up and looking cool.

I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascinated.

I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design.

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

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

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.

'Mad Fashion' follows the everyday workings of me and my workshop, where we make fashion, costumes, props, and couture!

After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

My mother did like to make clothes, and in I think the worst picture I've ever seen of myself - I must have been eight or nine - she'd dressed me in a matching t-shirt and Bermuda shorts ensemble which I think looked like somebody had thrown up all over it. I was so glad when that sewing machine stopped working, I have to say.

A piece of fabric can get me going.

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting.

When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to cut patterns and sew.

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.

I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it.

From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.