Garment Making Quotes

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.

I'm not a big fan of shopping. I certainly am a fan of clothes, and especially people that put time into the construction of them.

My fascination has been the space between cloth and the body, and using a two-dimensional element to clothe a three-dimensional form.

I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it.

The main pillar of my activity is making clothes, but this can never be the perfect and only vehicle of expression.

I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.

The Royal Family doesn't go out shopping for their uniforms: they've got some guy sewing on all the ornaments in-house. You could say I've got my own in-house team as well.

All the embroidery is made in my father's workshop in India... and all the cutting and sewing is done in my studio.

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

Yes, I do sew. I started when I was around 8 or 9 and have been doing it off and on since then.

My mother worked at home, making clothes, trying to make some money.

My parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas during my senior year of high school. I made three pieces of clothing and had a fashion show at the end of the year, where we had to wear the clothes that we made. I took it to a whole new level; I made all my friends clothes.

I make clothes; women make fashion.

I am not really interested in clothing as a conceptual art form.

My own show with Sterling Ruby, for example, seems like such a huge disconnection from Dior couture, but then I think, yeah, in both collections there was a very strong focus on the human hand and the actual work of people making garments. So in that sense, they were completely related. But I didn't realize that during the process.