This is very much my philosophy as a fashion designer. I have never believed in design for design's sake. For me, the most important thing is that people actually wear my clothes. I do not design for the catwalk or for magazine shoots - I design for customers.

Giorgio Armani

We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.

Alber Elbaz

Right now I'd say my favorite fashion designer is Zac Posen.

Allyson Felix

When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career.

Amy Chua

I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it.

Ann Demeulemeester

I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.

Anna Sui

Part of the intro to life in the public eye is, you get a bit of attention from fashion designers.

Antoni Porowski

Sometimes I feel like what's hard for fashion designers to do is take looks from off the runway and actually put it into existence, into reality. That's really the hard part.

ASAP Rocky

If I hadn't decided to be a fashion designer, I would have loved to be a Broadway showgirl or a Rockette!

Betsey Johnson

I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.

Catherine Malandrino

I definitely went through a phase where I wanted to be a fashion designer when I was younger... But I certainly wasn't very good at it.

Charli XCX

Even though I love fashion and would love to be a fashion designer, I don't live and breathe fashion every day of my entire life.

Chris March

If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.

Christian Lacroix

From singing to acting to songwriting to mom to fashion designer! It's been quite an evolution.

Christina Milian

If one lazily thinks of what a fashion designer might do if he's going to conquer cinema next, it would be taking the opportunity to display his fashion sensibilities.

Colin Firth

I think that anyone who is in any way creative or is creating something, whether an architect or fashion designer, I think if you have the opportunity to create something that is fully you, it frees your mind and your spirit and gives you the opportunity to really find yourself.

Conchita Wurst

The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur Dior. Dior himself was a gallerist before becoming the revolutionary fashion designer we all know.

Delphine Arnault

As the president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, I represent the designers. And while we can by no means take the blame for eating disorders, we can play our part in addressing this important issue.

Diane von Furstenberg

We must never lose sight of the fact that shoes go on the feet, and if people can't walk in them, they are worthless. Fashion designers who are not specialists need the help of technical people. We help decide the collections together.

Diego Della Valle

People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and... It's not like that.

Dries van Noten

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

Dries van Noten