I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.
Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.
I don't think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.
Users are not designers.
Good designers copy; great designers steal.
When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky.
It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful. . . Great designers also pursue a mission. Great designers design with mankind in mind. . . The crossroads of science and art, innovation and inspiration are what I love about design.
I don't think there is a particular responsibility on designers that is not on other professions. . . I think there's a responsibility for all of us to engage on all levels.
Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.
I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.
I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers create within that.
People always think that designers hate each other. And we're certainly a competitive lot, but we also enjoy each other's company. No one else knows what you're going through other than another designer.
The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.
I said that Mrs Obama has been extremely supportive of American designers, but clearly we were disappointed that she chose to wear a British designer for the state dinner. . . From there, I was so embarrassed that I am definitely going to write to her. She has been super supportive to American designers.
I am a lifelong career artist, which itself is a bit of a miracle. It's really challenging to be a career artist. I would say that the argument for grant funding is not only did my movie do some social good - hopefully it opened people's eyes - but you created a working artist. I'm hiring cinematographers, I'm hiring production designers, I'm hiring producers.
I support British designers as much as I can.