Designer Quotes

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

Mean people are no fun.

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.

The client is not always right.

Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.

We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.

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.

It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.

They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me.

The only one who is alive today and still being talked about is Pierre Cardin.

My name is more important than myself.

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

I have a name, I have to take advantage of it.

When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It's not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.