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Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer. -- Vidal Sassoon
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. -- Giorgio Armani
We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator? -- Tom Ford
As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded. -- Tom Ford
My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that. -- Nate Ruess
I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf. -- Kate Moss
The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur Dior. Dior himself was a gallerist before becoming the revolutionary fashion designer we all know. -- Delphine Arnault
I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me. -- Tom Ford
As the president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, I represent the designers. And while we can by no means take the blame for eating disorders, we can play our part in addressing this important issue. -- Diane von Furstenberg
Fashion designers are dictators of taste. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I love being a fashion designer. -- Roberto Cavalli
I wanted to be a fashion designer. -- Heidi Klum
I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know? -- Vivienne Westwood
Right now I'd say my favorite fashion designer is Zac Posen. -- Allyson Felix
One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress. -- Karl Lagerfeld
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Though I'm a fashion designer, I never stuff my luggage with too many items. -- Reem Acra
I always say if I weren't a fashion designer, my other dream job is being a rock star! -- Tommy Hilfiger
Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer. -- Lori Loughlin
You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible. -- Jean Paul Gaultier
I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes. -- Catherine Malandrino
I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I just have to remember that as long as I'm doing it I'm living the dream. -- Marc Jacobs
Often when I meet people and say I'm a designer, they say, 'Oh, a fashion designer.' Which is not a bad thing I suppose, a bit groovy. -- Ross Lovegrove
I don't see myself as a pure fashion designer sending dress after dress down the runway but about wanting those watching my shows to aspire to a certain lifestyle. -- Matthew Williamson
I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor. -- Gwendoline Christie
I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it. -- Ann Demeulemeester
Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together. -- Ozwald Boateng
I wear a lot of black, knitwear, skinny jeans and very high heels. My mum used to work for a fashion designer making knitwear, so she knits me lots of chunky scarves, hats and gloves, which I love. -- Katie McGrath
Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly opened new perspectives. Visionary and avant-garde, his creations took their inspiration from both tradition and timeless hyper-modernity. -- Francois-Henri Pinault
It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear. -- Lori Loughlin
People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing. -- Zaha Hadid
I drive around on my scooter in Milan alone - we don't have bodyguards or anything like that. I am a fashion designer, not a celebrity, and although I get stopped for autographs and the like, I don't think I am famous. -- Stefano Gabbana
I'm a fashion designer. What I do is artistic, but I'm not an artist because everything I do is destined to be sold. That's not to say that you can't be an artist and a fashion designer. I think some designers are artists. -- Tom Ford
Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt. -- Laura Mvula
I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer. -- Stella McCartney
I don't say I create. I copy, of course. I've never been interested in the point of view of the tailor or creator. Fashion is a visual impression. This is why I often refuse the name of fashion designer. It's a superficial, stupid job. The social-psychological aspect is more interesting. -- Franco Moschino
People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and... It's not like that. -- Dries van Noten
I'm really a nightmare for the fashion designer because I take away all of his authority, and I become the authority, and I turn him into my assistant. You could say I intervene, and I intervene in a very determining way in all the aspects that have to do with the visual construction of the film. -- Pedro Almodovar
No one ever said 'no' to me about anything. No one ever told me anything was wrong. Never. No one ever said, 'You can't be a fashion designer.' No one ever said, 'You're a boy and you can't take tap-dancing lessons.' No one ever said, 'You're a boy and you can't have long hair.' -- Marc Jacobs
I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in. -- Vivienne Westwood
Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not. -- Alexander McQueen
When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career. -- Amy Chua
I don't consider myself a fashion designer. -- Manolo Blahnik
I've never said I'm a fashion designer. -- Tim Gunn
I'm not an artist. I'm a fashion designer of clothes. -- Francisco Costa
I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle. -- Kelly Wearstler
My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model. -- Paige Butcher
A fashion victim is dressed in designer clothes from top to bottom. -- Donna Karan
I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes. -- Dries van Noten
I wouldn't be a good model for any designer's idea of what fashion is. -- Robin Wright
I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer. -- Anna Sui
I have to say that the identity of a fashion designer is international today. -- Sonia Rykiel
I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12. -- Alexander McQueen
I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant. -- Francisco Costa
I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy. -- Christian Louboutin
No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion. -- Shawn Ashmore
I wouldn't mind collaborating with anybody, but I don't want to design anything, I'm not a fashion designer. -- ASAP Rocky
I hope people will put aside Tom Ford the fashion designer and think about Tom Ford the filmmaker. -- Tom Ford
If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled. -- Christian Lacroix
I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time. -- Karan Johar
I don't gravitate toward any one designer because I think of fashion as the costume of the everyday woman. -- Kerry Washington
Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away...His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion. -- Diane von Furstenberg
I didn't long to be a designer. I always liked fashion, but it was always a bit sleeping in me. -- Carolina Herrera
I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars'' costume designer, Mandi Line. -- Lucy Hale
I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars' costume designer, Mandi Line. -- Lucy Hale
Time is my biggest luxury. Finding time to do things outside of fashion, which I think for a designer is incredibly important. -- Phoebe Philo
I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore. -- Alexander McQueen
I put pressure on myself to propose something new - I think it's the minimum that you can do as a fashion designer. -- Nicolas Ghesquiere
I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer. -- Georgina Chapman
I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked. -- Jason Wu
I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good. -- Vivienne Westwood
I never thought of myself as being limited to fashion. I'm a designer, and if you have a vision, you can apply that to anything. -- Jason Wu
I have no ambivalence about myself wearing make-up or designer clothes but I have an enormous ambivalence about what the fashion world has done to women. -- Nan Goldin
I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer - you do not want to be stuck in the same rut. -- Donatella Versace
I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things. -- Vivienne Westwood
I would really think twice about being a fashion designer if I was young right now, especially being an independent fashion designer the way I started it. -- Rick Owens
I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good. -- Zac Efron
What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up. -- Karl Lagerfeld
What's important to a fashion designer? It's much more than learning how to make clothes. In fact, that merely makes you a dressmaker. It doesn't make you into a fashion designer. -- Tim Gunn
If you look into the history of fashion, you'll discover that Gernreich was the leading name for years and the leading fashion designer both here in the United States and internationally. -- Harry Hay
I'm frequently introduced as a fashion designer, and I quickly say I'm not, and instantly people are incredibly disappointed and think that I'm some sort of charlatan who's been perpetuating this falsehood. -- Tim Gunn
As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three or six months. When you think about it, it's so intense. -- Gaspard Ulliel

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