Design Quotes

White folks are not going to come to see a bunch of guys with tattoos, with cornrows. I’m sorry, but anyone who thinks different, they’re stupid.

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people’s characteristics so that you can design characters around what you’ve seen.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Tattoos, for me, are like a timeline of my life. I could look at a certain tattoo, and it reminds of me of a certain time in my life and why I got that tattoo.

Everywhere I go, I can’t wear everything a designer creates. I’m a little more gritty.

Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.

There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.

My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don’t often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.