Quotes About Design

When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.

Me and my girlfriend make all my costumes here ourselves at home.

I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.

I work on the assumption that in the crowded mass communication field today you have to get in and get out with your message as quickly and simply as possible. You must communicate the maximum with a single glance.

Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the builder of a house constructs it out of so many different kinds of things: bricks, slates, planks, panes of glass, and so on.

I've always wanted to put a little solarium on the back of my house. You know. Glass.

I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture.

If you think about what are glasses, they are the best example of form and function.

Many architects say that they will never do a bridge. But I think they will discover that just as Fallingwater is a piece of art, so Golden Gate is a piece of art of the 20th century.

Actually, I love golf clothes! I think this is the most interesting part of golf!

Golf course design is exciting.

I love when architects build a golf course that compliments the landscape rather than intrudes upon it.

Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.

Whether that's from watching shows on HGTV, or magazines, or looking through Pinterest, you really have to have a good idea on what exactly it is that you like and what your style is.

He had a deep respect for life, a special compassion for animals, and great awe and reverence for nature's complexity and abundance. While a brilliant inventor and designer himself, he always thought that nature's ingenuity was vastly superior to human design. He felt that we would be wise to respect nature and learn from her.

Professional kitchens are studied to cook for countless people. At home, design often wins over functionality. A restaurant must be functional.

I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.

In 'Winter Soldier' - in terms of character-based, 'Winter Soldier' was so specifically for us: everything in that movie was designed around that version of Captain America that we wanted to see, that we wanted to explore. Everything in that film, all of the stylistic choices just flow from that.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.

I love hotels. I generally prefer smaller boutique hotels to large chains, especially when attention and wit has been given to interesting design elements and beautiful bathrooms.