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.