Designer Intent Quotes

I think a game hits a high point when it provokes reactions the designer doesn't expect.

Everything that I design I would wear myself.

Some people have a concept of design: that it should be without the maker. I have been educated in this way, the traditional way. But I am not naive. I know that we make my things, and that people want them. I am signing them - and I am winking at them.

I never try to make a major fashion statement but I want to be the friend in a woman's closet. I make dresses that women get laid in.

Dear designer of questionable intent, Please send me a photo of yourself. Please be wearing the knitted pants that you designed. It's not that I don't believe that there is anyone out there thing enough to wear horizontally stripped trousers knit from chunky wool, it's just that I would like to know whether you are deliberately cruel or whether you are the one woman these would look really great on.

Hopefully, no one will feel self-conscious in anything that I've designed.

You can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.

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

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art.

I love clothes. I don't know a woman who doesn't. But generally women are intrigued with fashion. Designers are almost making fun of us at times.

Most designers want to show apparel that makes the wearer look as long and lean as possible. And most people who buy clothes want to look as long and lean as possible.

Fashion is about good energy. It's about feelings. That's what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings.

During a fashion show, I want the clothes to speak. The effort I put into my work must be respected.

For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

These are clothes my friends and I could wear. This ain't Prada. I don't want to be one of those celebrities that slaps their name on a label and collects royalty checks. Everything on that runway reflects me.

The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.

It was never my desire to revolutionize fashion, to make clothes that could be in a museum. I want to create clothes that have a certain style, but I want to see them used. I want to see people enjoy the things I've made.

The way you dress is really the way you feel, the way you live, what you read, your choices. That's what I want to put into Gucci.

I don't see myself as a pure fashion designer sending dress after dress down the runway but about wanting those watching my shows to aspire to a certain lifestyle.

That's what I always try to do in my shows - look for the idea of a collection and what the designer wants that girl to portray. I always have that in my mind: What am I going out looking to do? I'm always trying to feel it, make it natural and real.