When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.
I've always wanted to design clothes.
I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.
I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
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.
Fashion designing involves a lot of work, and, as opposed to the general perception, it is different from costume designing for films. While a fashion designer can take up a costume designer's role, it is not possible vice versa.
If I am wearing a T-shirt, it's probably by Wap Two.
I always wanted to be a fashion designer and I learned costume illustration in high school. That was an incredible high school. It was more like a college. I'm moving more in that direction, just kind of merchandising my name.
My father made bridal dresses, which he sold wholesale, and always wanted me to join him. He looked upon what I did as precarious and frivolous - except that he loved it when my name was in the papers.
Designing a collection with Aeropostale was completely surreal.
I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.
I always shout out my dad. My artistic roots come from him. He had his own T-shirt company and taught me the trade.
When I go into a store and find a T-shirt that's well-designed with a great fabric but the fit is all wrong, the T-shirt is ruined for me.
I never knew that I would be actually designing clothes or as into fashion as I am now.
I've always loved fashion design. I love drawing and creating looks and styling.
I have a background in graphic design and have been designing t-shirt graphics for years.
The fashion world has been great. We started Apple Bottoms about seven years ago; it's interesting to be able to create something from your perspective, for your fans and support. It's a little different for me, because about 70% of my fans are females.
I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.
Like basketball, fashion is hard work.
After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.
I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be sold well and has to be of high quality.
I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about.
I can't force the direction that it's going to go without actually taking the time to make sure it's a great, great quality product. Whether that's for apparel, or whatever the case may be.
I really see myself continuing to design clothes, fragrances.
