A chef is a chef, a cook is a cook; a lorry driver is a lorry driver and a designer is a designer. I've never heard anyone say that Philippe Starck is a chef. The important thing is dialogue. If I said to Norman Foster that he was a chef he'd say "No", but he might have a dialogue with chefs. People have said to me for many years that I'm not a chef and that I'm an artist instead, but I always say, "No, I'm a chef. " I just have dialogues with designers.
I'm an unbelievable designer.
I actually wanted to be a fashion designer. I did a lot with the sewing machine at home - - for Barbie or for carnival or just for fun. Then I saw this ad in the newspaper. And as young girls sometimes do some stupid things, I filled in the coupon and sent in my photos.
Every human being is a designer
We have the freedom to excel or inhibit our potential. You are the grand designer of your thoughts and emotions. At some level or another you are the one who chooses which thoughts to accept and which ones to ignore. That can be a very empower realization.
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
What I'm doing now is having people with and around me to build what other designers built before - like Pierre Balmain with Josephine Baker, Audrey Hepburn, Dalida, Brigitte Bardot.
A car designer is really a sculptor.
All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.
I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.
Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great - besides me, of course.
I would say I'm waiting for, I guess, designers to open up their vision.
Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.
Development is only necessary to rectify the ignorance of designers
No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
There are so many young designers who need stock, who need my push. With the commerce, the one thing I knew is that I wanted to have things that were affordable. I was always one of those customers that would go to an amazing store and be like, "Um, what's the least expensive thing?"
Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour.
But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
There are so many designers that I love, and I'm so lucky that I get to work with so many of them and sometimes spend time with them.
There is no better designer than nature