Quotes About Design

There is definitely a 'red carpet moment' to a bride's wedding day, but when designing for bridal, it is important to focus on the details that will captivate and capture the imagination of the bride - she has to fall in love with the gown.

I have a long time association with Prince jewellery and the only piece of jewellery I wore for my wedding was designed by them.

I went looking for dresses and realized there was a niche I could fill in the wedding dress market.

I worked a lot with Nick Knight and John Galliano when John was at Dior. He also made my wedding dress. He'll always hold a special place; I have most of my memorable, iconic moments in fashion with him.

With a wedding gown, I have to make sure that people fall in love with it and that the details are very specific and special. There has to be a big story behind it and a great deal of integrity when it comes to the design.

I wore one of my own designs on my wedding day.

It might be a selfish choice, but I find it quite difficult to design for individuals and prefer the distance of larger schemes. It's the same reason why, as a designer, I don't do wedding dresses.

I originally thought I would be going into wedding dresses. I wanted to create gowns, especially for weddings. I liked the idea of dealing with just one color, and within that, you could design whatever you want.

There's always been trying at some stage to design people. And it will always be presented initially as a positive thing, as a way to weed out diseases. Of course you know it ultimately will be used in a bad way too, to create slaves or servants.

I finished college by July 15th, 1985, and by October 1985, I had a little stand during the trade show which was London Fashion week at the time. My stand was tiny - just 6 square meters in total - and I had my 12 shoes that I designed while in college.

How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think you can throw technology at, marketing at, or sales at. We threw design at it because that's all we knew, and in doing so, I feel like we brought a human touch to it, which is so needed.

Architecture is definitely a political act.

Architecture is always political.

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

They're not poodles, they're art.

Put simply, if an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if it is right there on the page.

Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

I collect candy packaging from around the world and believe it has the value of Pop Art.

I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.

But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.

My style is very strong poses and expressions.

In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.

A kid in Minecraft can build a world and inhabit it through play. We have the possibility to build the world that we want to inhabit.