Maria Cornejo Quotes

Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.

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.

I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.

I interned with Marc Jacobs in college, then worked at J. Crew. I learned a lot about how to fit clothes and what kinds of things sell and why.

I feel very lucky because I get to work in so many different areas of fashion.

I'd love to do a fashion label in the future. I've been thinking a lot recently about maybe making a line of little dresses, so maybe one day.

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

I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer.

I've grown up with a lot of my family in the fashion industry, so I've wanted to be part of it for as long as I can remember.

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

Fashion was always with me since I was young. I would always be like, 'What do I want to be when I grow up?' And it hit me when I was young - I wanted to be a fashion designer.

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

I went to college for fashion and, after graduating, got a job in Operations at Zara, learning the ins and outs so I could one day start my own clothing brand.

I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.

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

When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I ended getting picked up to be a model instead during my work experience.

It will be great to have a fashion career during and after my DJ career.

I've always loved fashion, but it's not what I set out to do.

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

I think pattern makers are some of the most underrated, undervalued people in fashion. They're the people who are sometimes the geniuses in designing clothing.

It's often said that costume designers are a faceless group of people. But we can contribute to fashion in a way that might be new and different.

I went to Parsons. American sportswear was my education, and that is what is important to me.

I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.

I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model.