I was always a design junkie.
It's a big pay off when I see a woman wearing my stuff. It's really gratifying.
Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.
I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.
...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.
Well, I'm rather attracted to rather prosaic things like vacuum cleaners and hand dryers. Where people haven't apparently made them with a great love for what they're doing.
I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.
I'm not a big fan of shopping. I certainly am a fan of clothes, and especially people that put time into the construction of them.
I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful.
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.
Costume designers don't care about trends. They appreciate, above so many other qualities, that tailoring is everything, which is a mantra for the way I dress. Ladies: The most important thing in clothing is to find a good, inexpensive tailor, because clothes at the stores are made for bodies that are anomalies.
Peter Som is one of my favorite designers. I love his clothes so much.
I'm intrigued by traditional Indian designs. They are so beautifully handcrafted, and the designs are so intricate and beautiful. I really prefer the Indian designs.
To me, the building [of Museum of Arts and Design]now looks like a lovely jewel box, and the tiled façade reminds me of a heat shield.
The thing I love about car design is that it's sculpture everybody appreciates, everybody has access to.
I'm more for the style than the brand. I don't go brand shopping; I go detail shopping.
No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.
I get a real kick out of it, seeing people wear my designs.
I just don't understand how you can not be concerned about your appearance. From time to time I'm vilified as the person who cares about the look of a teapot - and it's not that I believe my taste is superior, I just can not believe that other people don't care.
I'm so immersed in my little world that I don't often sit back and pay attention to what's going on around me. It truly stuns me when people recognize me. Obviously, I'm not a film star, but even at a design exhibition or art exhibition, if someone comes up to me, I'm sort of taken aback. I don't think of myself like that. But if I can have an effect on young designers, that's great - particularly young designers coming from Australia. Europeans grew up with design. The rest of us lived on tidbits of information.
I'm a very visual person, and I love opening beautiful books on art or design and looking through them.
It's always a fantastic moment for me when someone wears one of our designs.
Many students don't really like it (fashion). If they don't like it, they won't be able to tell you who the stylists are or the photographers. If they say they can't remember the names but they recognize the work, I'll say that's bullshit because if you were selling mobile phones, you'd know all about the phones' features and tariffs.
I think it's a great thing to support fashion and support designers.
With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.
