Quotes About Design

To make the hips the focal point of a pair of trousers is, to me, a fashion mistake.

You can take weight out of a car and truck and still make it very strong.

I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'

I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.

Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction.

I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.

When shooting in real spaces, the work of a cinematographer begins where location meets production design meets time of day. No movie light will ever look as real as the sun, so scheduling becomes truly paramount to naturalistic lighting.

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.

The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.

I spearhead interior design for all Trump projects.

Boots in January are always a good look, and some of the cutest ones I've seen lately were designed by Ivanka Trump, who knows a thing or two about style.

Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.

With couture, you're going right to the consumer, and that's something we learned from doing trunk shows. You're meeting the client; you're finding out what they like and what they don't like. You've really got your customer there in front of you, so you know what works and what doesn't.

Approach any room with the goal of making it the most attractive and comfortable, the room you want to live in the most.

Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.

My design has always been a derivative of people I meet. I want to translate who they are and their personality into a room.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver.

I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.

Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don't value architecture, we don't take it seriously, we don't want to pay for it and the architect isn't trusted.

Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.