Design Influence Quotes

We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.

People don’t know what they want until they see it.

I came from a different world from other designers because I already had such a strong fan base that was interested in fashion. You have to give the little divas something.

Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design.

Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.

When I first went to Kmart, I was so excited that I could bring my kind of taste to the masses. They didn't have 100 percent cotton sheets at mass market in 1987. We made those in yellow and pink and pale blue.

I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

It's not like what I do or what I wear is my copyright. What I'm wearing now also is an inspiration. It is how I saw it on the mannequin, and I just wore it, so it's in a way copied. But obviously, I wouldn't want to spend my life thinking about dresses. It is such a waste of life.

I truly believe that we're about to enter a second golden age of design. The first one was in the '50s and '60s, when designers like Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, George Nelson and Dieter Rams were shepherds of the brands they were working with. They had influence over the products and how companies communicated and promoted themselves.

Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.

Every time I meet with the CEO of a big laptop company, they tell me they 'studied' my design.

When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.

I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.

I'm always fetishizing the French woman and French taste and style. My assistant will make fun of me because every time we're picking the direction of a collection, I say the same thing: 'I want it to be really French.'

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.

When I say I don't do fur or leather, in my world it's a massive shock, but when it comes into the sporting arena, it goes without saying. It also influences what I do on the runway: I get really excited when I discover an environmentally-friendly print process that doesn't use water, and I'll try and mimic that in my ready-to-wear.

I'm deeply and passionately involved in the design process. I'm a brash American, and if my name is going to be on something, I'm going to have my say.

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.

There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.

It is interesting to see what other designers do, and not work in a vacuum.

A good designer will actually design the company.

My design has always been a derivative of people I meet. I want to translate who they are and their personality into a room.

There's no line between a designer and consumer.