Quotes on Designer

A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it to illuminate our cities, guide our airlines through the night skies and take the most accurate measurements. What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electrons as real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer on the ground that they cannot conceive Him?

There is no better designer than nature

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company.

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.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.