Garment Design Quotes

When I design a garment or a piece of accessory, the first question I ask myself is, 'Would I wear it?'

Whoever's designing for plus-size doesn't get it. The entire garment needs to be reconceived. You can't just take a size 8 and make it larger.

I've never said I'm a fashion designer.

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.

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.

My aim is to create the perfect dress!

I became the world's queen of sweaters without even knowing how one was made.

Well, when I was fifteen years old I worked in a lingerie store and that's how I feel in love with vintage lingerie because I wanted to know the history of it.

My mother loved fashion. She was a beauty and had enough sewing skills that she could re-create the looks in magazines. She also was enormously charismatic.

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

I was always fascinated by clothes, and I think I've had clothing in my blood for as long as I can remember.

All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.

The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.

I didn't grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear.

I'm not an artist. I'm a fashion designer of clothes.

Paris is one of the fashion capitals of the world and such an incredible breeding ground for designers. You can't help but find it an inspiring place.

I do not decide that skirts shall be short or long. The shape of the dress itself often dictates the length.

Indian women love to dress up like princesses. In India, people still go to the market to buy fabrics, garments are made-to-order, and friends come with you to the fittings.

The fashion industry isn't merely content to encase my meaty flanks in skintight denim. Oh, no! That denim also has to be white, a color that attracts ketchup, wine, garlic aioli, and any other foodstuffs I might otherwise be able to enjoy if I wasn't wearing ridiculously tight pants.

I love the journeys of research and discovery their development takes me on. I see prints as less 'decorative' than many might, and more fundamental to a garment's core.

I love designing dresses and tops.