Design Quotes

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

I definitely want to design clothes at one point.

I try to think of myself as a chic fishing grandpa aesthetically.

Let’s be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I’m staggered by what a boot costs today.

The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

I designed my whole image. That was all me. I just bought some regular clothes, threw a medallion around my neck, and that was it. The next thing I know, that’s the look.

I loved watching so many of the great designers I’ve worked with do what they do. That’s why I’m still loyal to the designers that I’ve known since I was 16.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they’re wearing.

I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.