“I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion th...” — Colleen Atwood Quote

“I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer for a department store back in the '70s and the early years of Saint Laurent. And I used to have a lot of private clients that I bought for.”

“I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas to the actor, then do fittings for shape and technical things such as movement in the costume. Once the costume in this form is on the actor, you have a sense of their connection with it. I then take it to the next level with the final fit.”

“I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.”

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

“The majority of men can see and visualise the end part of the build, and their wives go, 'I just can't get it.' The common phrase I hear from women is, 'He gets to do the build, he can project manage all that - and I'll do the interior design, decide the look of it, decide what the kitchen's going to be like, decide the tiles.'”