Quotes About Design

When you have kids, like I do, you have to also make sure that nothing, in terms of renovation and doing up things is dangerous to your children. Their safety is of paramount importance.

Too many architects are just trying to make all of their buildings look like a brand, and that may be good for business, but that is terrible for the cities because they lose character. If I go to Paris, I go to see the beauty of Paris and the coherence of Paris.

Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.

I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

The joining of the Japanese with the French should make a new movement. I think it should be good for Paris.

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris.

The first fashion show I ever attended was for Ritu Beri in 1997 or 1998. I think that was the first time Ritu had designed for one of my movies 'Yeh Raastein Hain Pyaar Ke.' She had done a show in Paris, and she had done the same show in Delhi. It was very eclectic, and I love the way she combines colours and makes them flamboyant.

I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early 20th century when the Ballets Russes were there and Chanel was designing.

We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.

The main thing for me is that anything I design, I try to design it with just a little bit of pizzazz, something that's going to allow the family to stay home and enjoy the space as opposed to necessarily having to always go to a park or something.

I would probably build somewhere between a half-mile and three-quarter-mile track. It would be sort of like Indianapolis Raceway Park. When I was a kid, that was my favorite track.

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

Warby Parker designs experiences, not products.

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

Fashion is a very particular world, as you know.

I like clothes. I like fashion, particularly men's fashion. Both my father and my grandmother on my mother's side were tailors, so I think it's in my blood.

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.

Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective.

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The designer who aspires to build on the scale of an ecology must abandon the conceit of absolute control of her medium and instead seek the abstract understanding of the scientist, and then apply this understanding to natural processes with the force-subverting skill of the jujitsu master. We cannot specify an ecology, but nor are we powerless to affect its evolution.

Figure 1-3. The User Experience Honeycomb. Along