Sister Parish Quotes

I'd always been acutely sensitive to my surroundings - and aware that I could make them rather than just observe them. So I began by designing interiors for myself, for friends, for clients - I just felt that I'd discovered my element, and those who really looked at what I was doing liked it - and the rest followed.

I really believe that a good decorator is a good listener. So the inspiration always is the people that are living in that home.

When it comes to designing your first apartment, I think people get overwhelmed and end up collecting pieces that don't always mesh well together because they don't have a clear vision. Take your time and use tools that can help inspire and guide you through the process.

Don't feel you have to buy something to sit in or at. Buy something you are emotionally attached to and build your design around that. One Matisse cutout poster could provide you with your whole color scheme!

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.

When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.

When I meet celebrities, I have to know what they are like and only then can I design. The clothes have to fit their personality.

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

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

I'm an interior designer from the soul. It's not about just putting things in a room. It's much deeper and broader. It's about self-discovery.

I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I'm going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.

My clothes and my interiors are about making people smile.

I never studied interior design, but I'm a creative person. And what we surround ourselves with is very important - what makes you feel happy, what makes your senses feel good.

Because I live and breathe design every day, sometimes I will come across an idea that is something I want to try. It often comes from an old hotel or an old restaurant, and I will adapt it to be residential.

A great interior designer is able to capture who someone is and adapt to who they are.

My passion is to create and transform a small or a large space.

I love the idea of working with women because I always feel like a man designing womenswear needs women around him to really have a sense of what they're doing.

I am creative in my living space - the designer in me helps that out.

I have a picture of a rainy Paris street scene which I bought when I was 33 and on my first trip to Paris. I go past it when I go upstairs every night and it reminds me of that trip and makes me happy

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.

Every time I design clothes, I'm making a movie.

In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.

I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.