I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it I think how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.

I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning number one I'm a mother and a wife and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create hopefully exquisitely beautiful desirable objects for my customer.

I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

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.

Over the past 20 years I have noticed that the most flexible dynamic inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which like it or not is modern reality.

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.

A good designer must rely on experience on precise logic thinking and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute out the next.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away.

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

I'm a fan of designers and clothes that look beautiful but more importantly make me feel beautiful and confident. It's why I've always loved Stella McCartney and more recently Prabal Gurung. Their pieces are cool yet timeless and the fits are effortlessly flattering.

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself the engineer is explained by natural selection.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

Great designers seldom make great advertising men because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.

Design is about point of view and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.

As a designer the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.

My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them but because he's so nice. When I did his fashion show he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.