Jenny Packham Quotes

When I design a garment or a piece of accessory, the first question I ask myself is, 'Would I wear it?'

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

I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.

I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

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.

When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an inch and down an inch, changing it from one shade of red to another shade of red. So it's the same as any creative process. The result is what we see, but the process is really labor intensive and work.

I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

Designing wasn't something that I was always into, but I wasn't able to find clothes that I wanted to wear. I wanted to be able to walk into any store and have an idea of what I want and go and get it.

I'm lucky that I'm inside the fashion industry and see clothes from a different perspective than the traditional consumer. Being able to curate, edit, and style product to make my own look is a privilege, but something I think men are becoming more aware of how to do.

Well, I'm still experimenting, trying to figure out my style. I'm trying lots of things from many designers including Christian Siriano.

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

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

Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be.

I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.

I like wearing good clothes. Some of my friends who are into making clothes told me since I was already playing with my own brand of bat sticker, I should make a foray in fashion. The idea has worked very well.

People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and... It's not like that.

I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.

Truthfully, the hardest part about fashion is not the vision or one great idea, but the execution of each aspect.

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 am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

I realised I've got quite a talent for coming up with ideas for design. I've got so many ideas about fashion.