Quotes About Design

We are actors who show up for work in our sloppy gear, and we've got this extraordinary tailor. It's someone else who's done the design; someone else who's cut the suit; someone else who's measured it. Basically, your job is to just wear it.

I want to make affordable shoes of quality that are very fashion forward, chic, and that I'm going to wear.

I like to wear things that don't need ironing. It seems a fundamental design flaw when clothing needs ironing. There are loads of fabrics these days that don't need ironing, so I stick to those.

Bridal wear has always been a passion of mine.

I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.

We're making clothes - we aren't saving the world. I'm not saying that designers aren't artists, but at the end of the day, we make clothes. Hopefully we make beautiful clothes with a message, but in the end it's for people to wear. I think that the hype of fashion has come down a level.

I'd love to do denim merch sometime, though. That's pretty much the mainstay of my wardrobe. I have a bunch of denim jackets I wear all the time.

I love to wear my own Jade Jagger ball gowns. I love their timeless elegance, of course with my own jewelry.

The women that wear my clothes would want a pink BlackBerry in their handbag.

With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

Even before I was discovered in 1966, I used to make my own clothes. I learned how to sew early on, and it's still my passion now. I constantly have ideas in my head about clothes so jumped at the chance to do my own collection and am very hands-on. Everything I design, I wear and I love.

If I am wearing a T-shirt, it's probably by Wap Two.

I thought, 'It doesn't matter what that woman is wearing,' but then I realised actually it's our job as designers to make women smile; to bring them the chocolate without the calories.

We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.

As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things.

Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.

All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

Wearing a bold print gets harder as you get older. It's safer to stick to subtle prints or block colours. I have always found prints quite tricky. My daughter Carly, who is on the design team at Stella McCartney, is obsessed with them.

We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.

I think people see me as someone who wears a lot of big jewelry, so it would be fun to do a costume jewelry type line.

I don't like things that are uncomfortable - everything we do, however structured or detailed, needs to be made so that when someone wears it, they completely forget about it.

I make a lot of my own clothes. I don't like wearing the same thing everybody else wears.

It's always a fantastic moment for me when someone wears one of our designs.