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Quotes About Design

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
~ Gertrude Atherton
In fashion, women have more sensitivity, more sense of the body, so they know how things fit and feel. Yet there are not many women who study fashion. It's ridiculous.
~ Donatella Versace
The French legend is a very simple one. All really beautiful clothes are designed in the houses of the French couturiers and all women want those clothes.
~ Elizabeth Hawes
Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.
~ Eva Zeisel
Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
I want to make clothes that make women feel beautiful.
~ Prabal Gurung
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.
~ Ozwald Boateng
For me, women's ski wear has always been black and, again, not as feminine or sexy as I think it could look while still having the technology there.
~ Stella McCartney
I design to make women feel confident and beautiful.
~ Tadashi Shoji
I believe women do the best womenswear.
~ Tim Gunn
Women were wearing the men's button-downs so I added men's touches into women's shirts. They're basically the same - just sexier. They're reshaped to the female body.
~ Tommy Hilfiger
Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface.
~ Weili Dai
I wouldn't exactly call it 'Intelligent', but somebody has to be behind designing the human form other than just biological necessity. Why else would women have arms? Or feet? Or mouths?
~ Zach Braff
Fashion is an art.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them.
~ Hasso Plattner
After doing some research with my agent, we found out Klipsch was an official Colts partner, and they were based in Indianapolis, which only added to my esteem for the company. I also have a passion for design and technology that developed while I was at Stanford and appreciate the quality of Klipsch's speakers and headphones.
~ Andrew Luck
You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology.
~ Freddie Mercury
'Bright Star' has been designed and the songs have been formulated around the way that I sing. That is the biggest gift of anything.
~ Carmen Cusack
When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.
~ Anna Sui
When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
~ Alexander McQueen
There are now college degrees in game design and interactive media, so if I were starting now, I would probably do that. When I started, you had to break into design from QA or programming or art, but it's really not true anymore.
~ Jane Jensen