Quotes About Design

I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X.

We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.

I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.

Because my friends and family are real people, and they wear all sizes, I couldn't imagine designing something that my loved ones could not wear.

Rather than trying to fit a prescribed need for office sizes, we try to go with the flow of the building as much as possible.

In Ohio, I built the world's first skate plaza.

We just want to make really great-looking clothes that are well-made, fit well... that you can skate in.

I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas.

I start with an idea in my head. I sketch it out quickly as a line drawing, using pencil. It never comes out quite right - usually a bit better than my mental picture.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.

When you sketch a shoe but don't have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sketch with no detail. The shoe completely morphs to the body.

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

Sometimes I sketch and then scan my sketch directly to make the curves more freehand. I don't want to make perfect industrial curves.

I'm partial to a Muji recycled-paper sketch book and a Sharpie ultrafine marker.

All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.

I was always doodling house sketches.

I recently discovered that Karl Lagerfeld sketches every single design in the Chanel collections. This made me so happy. I know it seems obvious, that the head of a fashion house such as Chanel would do this, but it isn't always the way.

I love designers sketches, they're like poetry. A vision of an idea intended to make someone feel wonderful.

I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.

A lot of fashion might seem boring, but it is actually quite fun: the inside, the outside, the silhouette... All the different finishes. That's a skill.

My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them.

My father worked in a scientific lab where he designed and built glass instruments. He was regarded as brilliant at his job and once constructed a human brain in glass just to show off his skills.