Designer Quotes

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Nothing, Away, Perfection

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
Henry Norris Russell

Dreams, Nature, Men

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Artist, Objective, Mechanic

Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
Fran Lebowitz

Children, Off, Few

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
Alexander McQueen

Fashion, Idea, Modern

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.
Richard Dawkins

Design, Car, Himself

I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
Lady Gaga

Father, Job, Real

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.
Kesha

Car, Cool, Carry

Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.
Calvin Klein

Women, Daily, Wear

Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.
Giorgio Armani

Dreams, Fashion, Become

I wanted to be a fashion designer.
Heidi Klum

Fashion, Wanted

Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn't matter if it cost £200 or £2. I'm attracted to things rather than labels.
Sophie Ellis Bextor

Same, Matter, Rather

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
Karl Lagerfeld

Old, Either, Nowhere

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
Vera Wang

Attitude, Design, Woman

I don't really buy designer stuff. I have a few nice things, but I don't really have the occasion to wear couture too often.
Emma Watson

Nice, Often, Few

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.
Camille Paglia

Design, Past, Reality

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.
Kate Moss

Love, Design, School

I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?
Vivienne Westwood

I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.
Vivienne Westwood

Good, Career, Fashion

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
Maurice Sendak

Love, Music, Great

I became a set designer for opera.
Maurice Sendak

I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it's expensive.
Ellie Goulding

Love, Stuff, Expensive

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
Alexander McQueen

Age, Fashion, Wanted

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.
Alexander McQueen

Forward, Yourself, Keep

I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
Adam Lambert

I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.
Jessica Simpson

Learning, Beautiful, Rather

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.
Vivienne Westwood

Money, Financial, Reap

Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.
Spike Lee

Time, Talk, Film

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Girlfriend, Theater, Costume

I love wearing designer pieces with something I found at Target.
Lauren Conrad

Love, Found, Pieces

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