I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though - you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief.

John Rocha

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

Women Men Design

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

Allyson Felix

Design T Sign

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

Design Car Art

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

Teen Love Design

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

Anna Sui

Design Business Wanted

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

Antoni Porowski

Life Design Art

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

Time Design Art

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

Betsey Johnson

Love Design Would

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

Work Design Age

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

Good Design Younger

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

Love Life Design

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

Christian Lacroix

Design Would Wing

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

Christina Milian

Mom Design Writing

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

Design Would Unity

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

Design Yourself Yours

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

Design Art Worlds

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

Design Art While

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

Design Worthless Worth

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

Women Romantic Morning

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

Dries van Noten

Design T Sign

Many a fashion designer's career was founded using packs upon packs of Polaroids, and though we love them, we forget that the image quality was often circumspect.

Dries van Noten

I would love to be a fashion designer but that's easier said than done.

Francesca Hayward

I'm not an artist. I'm a fashion designer of clothes.

Francisco Costa

I don't say I create. I copy, of course. I've never been interested in the point of view of the tailor or creator. Fashion is a visual impression. This is why I often refuse the name of fashion designer. It's a superficial, stupid job. The social-psychological aspect is more interesting.

Franco Moschino

I didn't set out wanting to be a fashion designer from the age of 3. It wasn't that kind of dream.

Giles Deacon

Fashion designers seem the busiest people on the planet.

Giles Deacon

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

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

Giorgio Armani

My first boyfriend was a fashion designer. He was a junior in high school, I was a freshman.

Hari Nef

I wanted to be a fashion designer.

Heidi Klum

Ahana does lots of things; that's the problem with her. She is a fashion designer and is also writing some scripts. She doesn't want to do the regular commercial films. So she has decided that only if she really likes something, then she will take it up.

Hema Malini

Fashion was always with me since I was young. I would always be like, 'What do I want to be when I grow up?' And it hit me when I was young - I wanted to be a fashion designer.

Hennessy Carolina

Growing up, I wanted to be a fashion designer, which I'm still in school for. Like, that's what I want to be: a fashion designer.

Hennessy Carolina

My plan was to model and pay the rent and then intern with designers and work on the other side of the industry however I could, but then it just got to be too much, especially with casting, fashion week, and also working for a fashion designer.

Hunter Schafer

I have met with hundreds of young fashion designers, hundreds of fashion startups, hundreds of CEOs and business leaders. All I do is get to ask questions of professionals in the industry. I learn from every conversation. It is the best education I could have.

Imran Amed

In the Eighties, Japanese fashion designers brought a new type of creativity; they brought something Europe didn't have. There was a bit of a shock effect, but it probably helped the Europeans wake up to a new value.

Issey Miyake

I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.

Issey Miyake

I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked.

Jason Wu

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.

Jean Paul Gaultier

I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though - you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief.

John Rocha

I am trained as a fashion designer and do not claim to be an expert architect or anything like that. I won't do something unless I know I can do it.

John Rocha

I think I am obsessed with Lucie Rie. I love the way she collaborated with Miyake, who for me is probably the most important fashion designer of the 20th century.

Jonathan Anderson

We have this perceived illusion of what the fashion designer does. As an industry, we make it out that this one individual changes the entire face of the earth. I have never said 'me'; it's always 'we.' I am just the big salesman.

Jonathan Anderson

There is something very cyclical about the way fashion designers work. They work and work and work, the collection is finally shown, and after those 15 minutes, they must start over from the beginning. This is not unlike the way I work creating new dances.

Justin Peck

I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.

Karan Johar

Sometimes fashion designers will be like, 'This is what's hot right now, and you will be cool if you wear this,' but sometimes it's too expensive or doesn't look good on me or isn't who I am, and I don't need to just think that what you're saying is what's cool if I have my own identity.

Kat Graham

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

Kate Moss

For me, music is my art and what I have dedicated my life to. For fashion designers, clothing is art. Just as much as a piece of music that I might write is a piece of art. Being able to merge the two industries on stage or at an event is really fun.

Kate Nash

I wear a lot of black, knitwear, skinny jeans and very high heels. My mum used to work for a fashion designer making knitwear, so she knits me lots of chunky scarves, hats and gloves, which I love.

Katie McGrath

Fashion designing involves a lot of work, and, as opposed to the general perception, it is different from costume designing for films. While a fashion designer can take up a costume designer's role, it is not possible vice versa.

Keerthy Suresh