Mae Jemison Quotes

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

My brain is a great fashion designer. Unfortunately, I don't have the skills to do it.

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

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

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 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.

When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses.

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

I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.

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.

Clothing was something I always wanted to do. I've been pulling tear sheets from magazines since I was a little girl.

I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond to it immediately.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

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

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.

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

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.

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

I wanted to be a fashion designer.

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

When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.

I'm into fashion and designing clothes and stuff.

It's a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour.