Design Motivation Quotes

From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.

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.

To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.

Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.

I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?

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

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us are idealists. You start out that way, anyway.

If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.

I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.

Poiret made clothes for individual customers, but I wouldn't like to make a dress just for its own sake.

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.

Clothes can be important. I am learning this. For instance, often when I design and I wonder what is the point, I think of someone having a bad time in their life.