Designer Skills Quotes

Very few designers today design - it's very important to be able to do your own sketch on paper and then explain [your vision] to the fabric cutters. Instead, lots of designers drape - it's the new way.

It takes a real designer to design for real women.

A good designer has technical knowledge - don't treat her like someone who's there to decide whether something should be pink or orange.

Sportswear is great, but not every designer can do tailored.

There are very few designers in Hollywood today who know how to really flatter a woman's body, and Mark Zunino is at the top of my list.

There are not many designers who are truly creative and literate. Most are self-indulgent, illiterate, fashion-mongering, service people trying to bridge a message between a product and an audience.

I wouldn't have lasted two minutes as a designer.

Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.

In their work, designers often become expert with the device they are designing. Users are often expert at the task they are trying to perform with the device. [...] Professional designers are usually aware of the pitfalls. But most design is not done by professional designers, it is done by engineers, programmers, and managers.

Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.

Designers are not artists. They may have the talent of one, but if they want to work in that way they should paint or sculpt.