Fabrics Quotations

I grew up in the age of polyester. When I got to touch real silk, cotton and velvet, the feel of nonsynthetic fabrics blew me away. I know it's important how clothing looks, but it's equally important how it feels on your skin.

I've designed since I was 12. The first was when I skated to Carmen, in red and gold and black. I wanted so many frills at that time. It had a lot going on for a little person like me. And I picked out fabrics that didn't stretch. Very uncomfortable.

I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else.

I do a lot of collage work with fabrics placed in them. It always surprises and delights me how they can interact and compliment one another.

Similar things apply when you are going to warm climates. In Los Angeles, where the sun is bright, some suit fabrics which look gray in London take on a strange greenish tint (in Los Angeles).

When the shapes are big, the fabrics are soft and so you always sense the body when someone's moving.

Because of the photographic reproduction, it can only be printed on synthetic, so (the garments are) all polyesters, which feel amazing, ... For a while, polyester just mimicked fine fabrics so there was really no reason for it to exist, but now they have made such great leaps such as inventing truly new hands, beautiful new drapes, new possibilities that were never really there before.

What women need today is classic things with an age, with fantasy, with a quality. Dresses you can live with. Sometimes it's the fabrics who win, sometimes it's the shape, but I always rework on themes that make Versace a classic name with serenity.

It is a natural next step in the process. (Collins & Aikman) has made some ill-timed investments over the years and it should help those players left in the fabrics industry.

We have the opportunity to produce feedstock to make fabrics like polyesters, plastics for films that wrap our foods, or plastics for things like milk bottles, car parts, all of that. The outcomes are the deliverables.

We airbrushed satin to make it look like chinchilla fur, ... We used silk and synthetic threads to imitate ermines and fluffy fabrics and then used silk chiffon and quilted it to look like sheared beaver.

We airbrushed satin to make it look like chinchilla fur. We used silk and synthetic threads to imitate ermines and fluffy fabrics and then used silk chiffon and quilted it to look like sheared beaver.

You can go on Nike's website and choose exactly what fabrics and colours and shapes you want your sneakers to come in.

We haven't seen this many light fabrics on the runways for fall since I can remember.

The fabrics, whether it be hand-painted prints at the end, or whether it be new knits and stretch fabrics ... sort of make the whole world.

There are new technologies currently under development that are astounding there is always room for this category to grow. One of the big challenges when you deal with proprietary performance fabrics is to ensure that the costs involved with developing and producing the fabrics does not make the garments cost prohibitive to the consumer at the end of the day. We are careful to be sensitive to that for the benefit of our customer and we also understand which benefits our customer values as well.

When I'm working I have to move, I have to be quick. I can't pose in a suit. You know I have to work in a suit, therefore we have these fabrics or this new kind of workmanship into suits which is almost leisure wear. I can wear a T-shirt instead of a shirt with a tie to look modern and also acceptable.

We bundle a lot of fabrics and I wanted to promote them. I like to help people choose fabrics -- but there are so many, sometimes it's overwhelming.

Throughout our history, Hartmann has been able to take beautiful fabrics and leathers and turn them in to gorgeous, yet practical, luggage. Like our other launches, the Rhapsody Collection builds upon our core equity collections and gives consumers an alternative to black. People will be singing a different tune at baggage claim with Rhapsody.

I started to design the collection by designing the fabric. ... I had some antique fabrics that I had developed into new fabrics, and then introduced reflective materials into the fabrics,

Women, being the beautiful things that they are, love to have feminine touches around the house. They love gorgeous fabrics like lace. I mean, Ernest, when was the last time you bought tassels for the drapes.

Offering the latest colors, coolest styles and fabrics creates enthusiasm. But people also fear making a mistake. A small percentage of customers want to do it themselves, and the vast majority wants someone else to narrow the choices so decisions are easier to make.

Fabrics make a wonderful wall covering. Stretched and upholstered onto a wall.

Despite the tremendous efforts of those within our fabrics operations to reduce costs and improve productivity, this segment of our business has simply been unable to compete.

Quilting has become an art. We're dedicated not only to old-fashioned piecing but also to develop awareness of fabrics and textiles as art forms.

Tea-stained laces, Victorian accents, ruffles and textured fabrics like Swiss dot and crochet reinforce this sense of vintage femininity.

Fashion is about change and, for me, the philosophy is always the same ... that the clothes have to be really modern and make women look really beautiful, ... But, it's fun to keep changing and to change the silhouettes, to change the fabrics and to change the color. Color this fall is really going to change too, because there is color.

Flowers have always been popular in Japan. They've been applied as decoration to everything from fabrics and household utensils to scroll paintings and revered as objects in tea ceremonies.

I hope that each season, we get tighter and tighter and we get a little more refined and the fabrics get richer. And I hope it gets better and better.

All the stuff, curtains, fabrics and whatever else is coming, too.

You can take organic materials ? leather, steel, wood and fabrics ? and mix them in the right way.

When a man's suit fits, when the construction is beautiful, when the sewing and fabrics are there... in the end, you'll look the best in it.

Before I ever think of a design I have to select the fabrics, so fabrics actually are the inspiration for any collection.