I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
In designing a lifestyle brand, you have to know more than just designing clothes.
I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting.
I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now.
At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at...
As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.
It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.
I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.
Good designs are in special places for those who has appreciation; bad designs are everywhere.
I'm getting offered roles that aren't designed for aboriginal people; they're designed for anybody. It's pretty surreal and mind-blowing.
None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.
You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.
As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it's on a red carpet or passing by you in the market. It's this wonderful little high every time.
My experience of children on a film set, especially on a big film set like the 'Potter' one, is not wholly positive.
We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people lik...
