3 December 2020 Vera Wang When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
3 December 2020 Genevieve Gorder That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush… it’s a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.
3 December 2020 David Hume A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
3 December 2020 Vera Wang Let’s be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I’m staggered by what a boot costs today.
3 December 2020 Pharrell Williams I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it’s often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
3 December 2020 Peter Stuyvesant The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors’ possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.
3 December 2020 St. Vincent In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there’s a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can’t completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.
3 December 2020 Stephen Gardiner The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
3 December 2020 Niklaus Wirth But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
3 December 2020 Bonnie Wright I’m really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it’s not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who’ve taken the time to go and study fashion.
3 December 2020 Anthony Holden The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
3 December 2020 Charlie Byrd A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
3 December 2020 Liz Phair I mean, I think about it, but I don’t design my record to get a certain public response.
3 December 2020 Robert Rodriguez I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.
3 December 2020 Kanye West I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‘You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.’
3 December 2020 Amy Waldman So the premise of ‘The Submission’ is that there’s an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it’s won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.
3 December 2020 Marcus Aurelius Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
3 December 2020 Betsey Johnson I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That’s why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.
3 December 2020 Paul Graham Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design – designing too early what a program should do.
3 December 2020 Nastia Liukin I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.
3 December 2020 Christian Lacroix They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the ’50s and ’60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.
3 December 2020 Valentino Garavani Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.
3 December 2020 Stephen Sprouse I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.
3 December 2020 Jamie Oliver If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
3 December 2020 Mary Astell The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
