Womenswear Quotes

I learned little by little. I learned how to draw. I learned how to tell the difference in the quality of fabrics - the subtle differences. I started with collections for men. So my first collection for women was deeply inspired by male roles.

I was in Paris, when Kanye [West] was doing his line and I stopped like, "Woah why are you doing womenswear and why do you think you can do it?" He was like, "Why? You don't know what you like to see women in?" I was like, "Yea but still women are so intricate."

I believe women do the best womenswear.

Some days I have a knot in my stomach because I've got to sit down and come up with something in womenswear that no one else came up with.

I think that androgyny is so amazing. Men's shows I can look at and say, 'I would wear that.' But there's things I see at Nina Ricci, and I'm like, 'They need to make that in men's,' or 'I want those pants.' Everything is inspiring.

I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.

It's really rare that you find a designer who's willing to dress people who maybe present more masculine in their womenswear.

I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty.

One thing I think constantly is if brands like Gucci can make plus-size menswear, then why can't we see it for women?

My womenswear line would translate well into childrenswear.

I tend to dress a little more sophisticated than most women do.

My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.

I like people who dress quirkly and differently. Like in womenswear, thank god for Helena Bonham Carter!

Doing womenswear is challenging, and it's exciting. I approach it the same way as I approach menswear, so it's in a tailored way, and I do my thing. I love doing it.

It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.

I love the idea of working with women because I always feel like a man designing womenswear needs women around him to really have a sense of what they're doing.